Narrow Water Memorial Service

MEMORIAL AT NARROW WATER ON 27TH AUGUST

A memorial service for 18 soldiers of the Parachute Regiment who were killed in an IRA attack in Co Down.

The PIRA bombers targeted a convoy of vehicles transporting Parachute Regiment soldiers from Ballykinler barracks to Newry on August 27 1979.

As they passed the old Narrow Water castle ruins, the IRA remotely detonated the two bombs from a firing point across the Newry River in the safe haven of the Republic of Ireland.

There was also a 19th victim – Michael Hudson, who had been visiting the Republic from London, who was killed by army gunfire across the river following the blasts.

The incident came just hours after Lord Mountbatten, two members of his family and a Co Fermanagh teenager had been killed by the IRA in a boat bomb in Co Sligo.

FAIR will be organising the annual event which will centre on an act of remembrance and wreath laying.