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Originally Posted by EatYerGreens

So McGuiness took what he thought was a substantial and viable explosive device and put it into the city's public drains system ?!

Jesus - that's an appalling thing to do. It could've blown up anywhere randomly between there and the river (including under the Brandywell stadium itself), and/or hit one of the bridges or a boat when it ended up in the river.

Tackling it was definitely courageous, but putting it into the drains was just madness.

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I thought the same thing initially, but this Martin McGuinness we're talking about - he probably knows a thing or two about bombs. I'm guessing he knew that soaking the bomb in water would have immediately rendered it completely useless.

That's a hell of a story. "How's about ya Martin, we've come across an oul bomb in the cemetery here. Could you come and have a look it? 20 minutes? Good man."

I'd say McGuinness's story is the "official" version in which he is just helping out his local club. The actual story has probably got a lot of detail that couldn't be published in a national newspaper.

Thats brought the memories back of reading that incident in the Gods v Mortals book. Martins brother Paul played in I think in the early loi days in the 1st division and I stand to be corrected but I am sure that he played against us in the mid 80s.

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Originally Posted by Philosophizer

I'm guessing he knew that soaking the bomb in water would have immediately rendered it completely useless.

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