Dublin Airport bombing | |
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Part of the Troubles | |
Location | Dublin Airport, Fingal, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
Date | 29 November 1975 |
Attack type | 2 time bombs |
Deaths | 1 civilian |
Injured | 10[citation needed] |
Perpetrator | Ulster Defence Association (UDA) |
On 29 November 1975, a bomb exploded in the arrivals terminal of Dublin Airport, killing a man and injuring nine other people.[1] The Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group from Northern Ireland, claimed responsibility for the bombing. It was one of a series of loyalist bomb attacks in the Republic of Ireland between the late 1960s and mid-1970s.