The IRA killed a royal and 18 soldiers on the same afternoon. 🎣

The IRA killed a royal and 18 soldiers on the same afternoon. 🎣 . . . On August 27, 1979, a 50-pound bomb aboard Lord Mountbatten's fishing boat Shadow V detonated in Mullaghmore Harbour, killing the 79-year-old cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Hours later, two roadside bombs at Warrenpoint killed 18 British soldiers — the Army's worst single day of the Troubles. One planning cell. One afternoon.