Eamon Collins was in Newry on the morning of Sunday the ninth of May, 1987. What he learned confirmed what he had already begun to suspect. Eight men had been killed the previous evening in the village of Loughgall, County Armagh. British soldiers. An RUC station. A bomb. The scale of the loss — the largest single loss the Provisional IRA would suffer between 1921 and the Good Friday Agreement — was enough to stop most people where they stood. C…
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