Dublin Airport bombing

Dublin Airport bombing
Part of the Troubles
Dublin Airport in 1971
LocationDublin Airport, Fingal, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Date29 November 1975
Attack type
2 time bombs
Deaths1 civilian
Injured10[citation needed]
PerpetratorUlster 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.

  1. ^ "Airport Bombers 'Flew to Britain'". Irish Independent. 1 December 1975.