IRA Dissidents Plant Firebombs in McDonald’s Restaurant in Northern Ireland
May 22, 2008 by national
Filed under World Report
Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Northern Ireland discovered two firebombs Wednesday in the latest effort by IRA dissidents to undermine peace in the British territory, police said.
Police Inspector Sue Steen said both firebombs were hidden Tuesday night in the diaper-changing room of the restaurant in the central Northern Ireland town of Cookstown.
Staff members were alerted to the location of the firebombs because one partly ignited overnight in a garbage can. The other apparently was a dud.
“It doesn’t bear thinking about what might have happened if the restaurant had been filled with people, or someone was in the room with a baby, when they went off,” Steen said.
The failed firebombing appeared to be the latest effort by Irish Republican Army dissidents to show they reject the IRA’s 2005 decisions to renounce violence and disarm.
