In the end, it went the way that - deep down - most of them thought it probably would.
The 1970s and 1980s were two decades routinely scarred by IRA bombings. A barrage of deadly attacks during what has become known as The Northern Ireland Troubles will never be forgotten by those who can remember them.
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