Mountbatten’s murder ‘one of the darkest days in Irish history’

THE day Earl Mountbatten of Burma died was “one of the darkest days in modern Irish history” and a day of shame, a 30th anniversary memorial service in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, was told yesterday.

The Revd Noel Regan, from Mullaghmore, now based at Belleek, Co Fermanagh, told a congregation of 500 at a service of remembrance and reconciliation: “For many, including myself, there was embarrassment, anger and upset that this was done in our name.

“There was a sense of hopelessness and above all shame that this could have happened here in Ireland, particularly to someone who had been through so much as a world statesman.”