Worst IRA bombing? You would think this was the first ever terrorist attack on the UK the way the press have been going off. I can remember bombs going off all the time when i was a nipper, in particuar the Bombing of the Parading of the guard when all the queens horsemen (and their poor horses) got blew up. Out of interest what was the higest kill of a IRA attack on mainland uk?
February 1974 - Coach carrying soldiers and families in northern England is bombed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Twelve people killed, 14 hurt. October-November 1974 - Wave of IRA bombs in British pubs kills 28 people and wounds more than 200. July 1982 - Two IRA bomb attacks on soldiers in London's royal parks kill 11 people and wound 50. December 1983 - IRA bomb at London's Harrods department store kills six. October 1984 - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet narrowly escapes IRA bomb which kills five people at hotel in English resort of Brighton during the Conservative Party's annual conference. September 1989 - Bomb at Royal Marines Music School in Deal, southeast England, kills 11 and wounds 22. February 1991 - The IRA fires mortar bomb at Prime Minister John Major's London office. No one is injured. April 1992 - Huge car bomb outside Baltic Exchange in London's financial district kills three people and wounds 91. March 1993 - Bombs in two litter bins in Warrington, northern England, kill two boys aged three and 12. April 1993 - IRA truck bomb devastates Bishopsgate area of London's financial district, killing one and wounding 44. February 1996 - Two people die when IRA guerrillas detonate large bomb in London's Docklands area. March 2001 - A powerful car bomb explodes outside the BBC's London headquarters. Police say the Real IRA, a republican splinter group opposed to the IRA's ceasefire, was behind the blast. One man was wounded.
