It is now the best part of half a century distant. But the blast that murdered Louis Mountbatten, 's uncle and ' grandfather' to on this day in 1979 still echoes down the years.The bomb which the IRA planted on his fishing boat at Mullaghmore on Carlingford Lough killed Mountbatten, one of his twin grandsons, Nicholas Knatchbull, his daughter-in-law Lady Doreen Brabourne and a local 15-year-old, Paul Maxwell.
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