Threat to Prince Charles’ visit - SF must be clear on any terror plan

IT seems pointless, and probably wrong too, to try to establish a hierarchy of atrocity inflicted on this small island during the three decades of terror that preceded the Good Friday peace agreement.

Every side active during the 30 years of brutality behaved in ways that ensures they can all offer several entries for that dreadful list.

However, if such a project were undertaken, the murder of octogenarians Louis Mountbatten and Dorothy Brabourne and schoolboys Nicholas Knatchbull and local boat hand Paul Maxwell, when they were lobster fishing from Mountbatten’s boat Shadow V off Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, in August 1979, would deserve consideration.