Twelve people died when the IRA fired bombed the La Mons House hotel on the 17 February 1978
Scores of people were injured, some horrifically.
All the dead were simply attending an Irish Collie Club dinner. They included three married couples – and were all Protestants.
The Provisional IRA claimed responsibility for the attack, it apologised for the deaths – claiming the bombers had planned to give adequate warning – but were thwarted by a broken phone box.
The atrocity caused outrage and was seen by Protestants as a sectarian attack – its victims have campaigned for justice to this day.
Journalist Ivan Little’s first shift as a news editor was on that day and has worked on the story ever since – he joins Ciarán Dunbar to tell the story.
Ivan Lyttle on theIRA’s La Mons bombing and the victims’ quest for justice
