Margaret Thatcher visits RUC training centre

Title

Margaret Thatcher visits RUC training centre

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

28 Sep 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:26

Description

Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher has visited Northern Ireland and spoken at a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) training centre on the outskirts of Belfast. She spoke with people directly affected by terrorist attacks, including police officers hurt in the Lisburn fun-run bomb attack in which six soldiers were killed. In Lisburn she met a hostile reception from loyalists who pelted her with eggs but she was full of praise for a shirt factory she visited on the outskirts of Londonderry. Report by Karen English. Broadcast on Downtown Radio.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Downtown Radio; Karen English

Keywords

Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; Prime ministers; Belfast; RUC; Training; Lisburn

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