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Kilrush man charged over Hyde Park Bombing is granted bail

A West Clare man charged with the murder of four British soldiers in an IRA bomb blast in Hyde Park in 1982 has been granted conditional bail.

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61 year old John Downey, with an address in Donegal but originally from Saint Joseph’s Terrace in Kilrush  also faces a further charge of intending to cause an explosion likely to endanger life.

He’ll be fitted with an electronic tag and will have to report to a police station every day. 

A provisional trial date has been set for January. 
 

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