State Violence and Collusion Timeline 1973
Events related to state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland in 1973.
January
- 20 - At 3.20 pm on a Saturday afternoon, as Ireland were playing the All-Blacks Rugby team at Lansdowne Road, a car parked in Sackville Place, Dublin exploded, killing 21-year-old Tommy Douglas, a native of Stirling, Scotland.[1]
September
- 16 - UDA figure Tommy Herron shot dead under mysterious circumstances.[2]
Notes
- ↑ DUBLIN BOMBING OF 20th JANUARY 1973, Justice for the Forgotten, accessed 19 June 2012.
- ↑ David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton and David McVea, Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, 2004, p.391.
