Warrenpoint falls silent as soldiers’ families recall IRA massacre

A HUSH descended over a Northern Ireland beauty spot yesterday as families and ex-servicemen marked the 30th anniversary of an IRA double bombing which claimed the lives of 18 soldiers and a civilian.

The massacre beside Narrow Water Castle at Warrenpoint, Co Down, resulted in the army’s largest single loss of life in more than 35 years of the conflict.

The two bombs were detonated on the same day the Queen’s cousin Lord Mountbatten was murdered in an IRA bomb attack on his fishing boat off the west coast of Ireland.