12th, 1984. an event that shook the british establishment, bomb detonated at the ground hotel in brayton england, killing five people and almost killing then british prime minister, margaret thatcher. our next guest was central to this. ira attack, but before we speak to them, let's get a quick overview on one of the most cataclysmic events in british political history. as always, we are joined by our resident co-presenter michelle gildernew. michelle is the current mp for fermana south toron. she has served in the northern ireland assembly as a former minister for agriculture and rural development and chairperson of the health committee amongst other things. michelle has been a shinfian activist since her teams and has been elected almost continuously since name. 1998 and today's guest is padge, pad is a former member of the iraled for the brain bombing in 1984. after serving 15 years he was released under the good fredy agreement. padge, welcome to the show. thanks sean. pot, before we begin, can you tell me a bit about your childhood grown up in belfast? well, uh, at the age of four i actuall

the next period was achieve in that end, and so eventually i was active in england, and i was seen as a campaign, uh, brayton, the braghton. operation for all of its importance in terms of its targeting was part of a campaign, we believe that the only way to get the brits to the negotiating table was for sustained campaign, not one operation, no matter how significant could achieve that, it was about get a long term, attack in england, and i think eventually we did that after lot of stops and starts and i wasn't part of that, i was in jail by that stage, uh, we'd have operated in england, withdrew because of logistics involved, and then come back to it, that wasn't a plan, the sort of pressure that was going to be needed, it took us a long time, a long time for the movement to gain what was needed, and eventually it did, pat, i suppose we know that the people are operating in england, in britain at all, there were sometimes greater risks and certainly the way they were treated after. and all the rest was um seem to be pretty brutal and i'm thinking of people like loire and martine anderson um the baltic stre

12th, 1984. an event that shook the british establishment, bomb detonated at the ground hotel in brayton england, killing five people and almost killing then british prime minister margaret thatcher. our next guest was central to this...