The Mick Clifford Podcast: Killing Thatcher - Rory Carroll

Rory Carroll joins Mick on this week's podcast to discuss his new book Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

October 1985: British prime minister Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool. File Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

In October 1984 the IRA attempted to kill Margaret Thatcher with a bomb in the Grand Hotel in Brighton where she was staying for a Conservative party conference. 

The plot failed but five other people died. It was the most audacious attempt at assassination that the Provos had undertaken over the course of the Troubles.