The Atrocity | The Poppy Day Bomb Ep. 1

On Remembrance Sunday in 1987, an IRA bomb went off in Mario Ledwith’s hometown of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, killing 11 people.

A lifetime later, Mario returns to investigate the silence surrounding that terror attack.

Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence that you may find upsetting.

Host: Mario Ledwith, news reporter at The Times. 

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