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The Belturbet bombing occurred on 28 December 1972 when a car bomb planted by Loyalist paramilitaries exploded in the main street in the border town of Belturbet in County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. The bomb killed two teenagers Geraldine O'Reilly (15) and Patrick Stanley (16).[1] Nobody claimed responsibility for the bombing but security services believe the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) carried out the attack. The attack happened just a few weeks after two people were killed and 127 injured when two car bombs exploded in the centre of Dublin, Republic of Ireland on 1 December 1972.[2]
On the same day as the Belturbet bombing, two other bombs exploded in border counties, the first in Clones, County Monaghan which injured two people and the second in Pettigo in County Donegal which caused injury to a single female victim. The three bombs all exploded within 49 minutes of each other, all three bombings were believed to be part of a co-ordinated attack attributed to a single organization.[3]
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^"CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulster.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
^"Unlawful Killing of Geraldine O Reilly and Patrick Stanley/Bomb Explosions at Belturbet, Co. Cavan, Clones, Co. Monaghan and Mullinagoad, Co. Donegal on 28 December 1972". Garda.ie. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
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