In his new book ‘The Sorrow and the Loss - The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women’ veteran journalist Martin Dillon highlights the impact of the conflict on women, including IRA Volunteer Mairéad Farrell. In this extract he provides an account of how former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally oversaw an SAS shoot-to-kill ambush that claimed Mairéad's life along with two other republicans, Daniel McCann and Sean Savage in Gibraltar in 1988, 37 years ago this week.

 

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