Protestants Claim Bomb Responsibility
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Northern Ireland Protestant hard-liners claimed responsibility for a failed bomb attack on the Irish town of Dundalk, five miles from the border, and threatened to carry out more surprise bombings against the Dublin government. The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), a recently formed grouping of extremists fighting to maintain British rule of Northern Ireland, issued its warning in a telephone call to a Belfast television station. The threat came in the run-up to Ireland’s June 6 elections. The LVF said the bomb failed to explode because of “technical difficulties.”
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