Time for truth on 1974 bombings
The bombings caused maximum carnage on Dublin’s busiest day and at its busiest time — rush hour, Friday, between 5.30pm and 6pm. Three, massive bombs went off without warning, and a further bomb, a diversion to allow those responsible to escape, exploded a short while later in the border town of Monaghan.
This was the biggest mass murder in the history of the Irish State. The Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, said in the Dáil a few days after the bombings: “It was, without exception, the worst single outrage in these islands, since the end of the Second World War.”