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50: 234:. He died of his injuries three days later. On 24 October, the UVF claimed responsibility for both the Ballyshannon and RTÉ bombings. The statement read "the attempted attack was a protest against the Irish Army units still massed on the border in Co Donegal". The statement added: "so long as the threats from 199:
The bomb is believed to have been planted at the rear wall of the studio building and little structural damage occurred except for the shattering of glass panels and some light interior damage. Hours earlier, on the previous day, a petrol bomb had damaged BBC headquarters in Belfast, while the RTÉ
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continue, so long will the volunteers of Ulster's people's army strike at targets in Southern Ireland". Until then the Irish security forces believed the RTÉ bombing was the work of
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Six months after the RTÉ bombing, the UVF struck again at RTÉ. On 18 February 1970, it bombed a 240-foot radio mast on Mongorry (or Mongary) Hill, near
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This was the start of a Loyalist campaign of bombings in the Republic of Ireland that would continue until the mid-1970s, with the deadliest being the
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who had a grudge against RTÉ. The UVF carried out two more bomb attacks in the Republic that year: on the
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member Thomas "Tommy" McDowell was electrocuted while planting a bomb at an electricity sub-station in
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Later that morning, the main Irish daily newspapers carried front-page coverage of the blast.
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television studios. The blast was heard over a wide area of
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The attack took place on 5 August 1969 at 1:30am at the
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Terrorist attack on Irish broadcasting studios (1969)
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who hardline Loyalists felt was too liberal towards
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Index

RTE Studio bombing
The Troubles

Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Donnybrook, Dublin
Time bomb
Ulster Volunteer Force
Ulster Loyalist
paramilitary
Ulster Volunteer Force
Republic of Ireland
the Troubles
Ulster Protestant Volunteers
Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Stormont government
Irish nationalism
RTÉ
Dublin city
Dublin and Monaghan bombings
Ulster Volunteer Force
Ulster Protestant Volunteers
Ballyshannon
County Donegal
Éire
Irish republicans
Wolfe Tone
Bodenstown
County Kildare

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