Services to mark notorious IRA bomb attacks

Services are being held today to remember the victims of two of the IRA's most notorious bomb attacks.

The first bombing happened on the morning of August 27, 1979, when the IRA blew up a boat carrying Queen Elizabeth's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, in Co Sligo.

One of the 79-year-old's grandsons was also killed, along with his daughter's mother-in-law and a teenager from Co Fermanagh who was holidaying with the family in Mullaghmore.

While news of those killings was still spreading around the world, the IRA detonated two massive bombs near Narrow Water Castle in Warrenpoint, Co Down, killing 18 British soldiers.

The attack was the British Army's largest single loss of life during the Troubles.

Both bombings are due to be remembered at special services in Mullaghmore and Narrow Water today.