Assassination of Lord Mountbatten
The IRA placed a 50 pounds (23 kg) gelignite bomb on Shadow V, a fishing boat owned by Mountbatten, while she was harboured overnight in Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland.[3] The IRA claimed responsibility 5 hours after the bombing;[4] later on 30 August they issued a statement, describing the attack as "a discriminate act to bring to the attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country".[14] McMahon was paroled from his life sentence in 1998 after 19 years in prison under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, as part of the Northern Ireland peace process which brought an end to the Troubles after three decades.[27] The American press condemned the attack, including The Boston Globe, which said "the Provisional army's action against Mountbatten and others engenders no sympathy for their cause" and The New York Times, which suggested that the Republic of Ireland and Britain team up as a means of "how to punish the IRA.Thousands of people turned out for the funeral procession, which began at Wellington Barracks, including representatives of the three Armies and military contingents from Burma, India, the United States, France and Canada.
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