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So I came across this paragraph:

"As Morrison had forecast, the IRA’s war of attrition would continue despite Sinn Féin's move into the political arena. A short list of headline-grabbing incidents might include the assassination of the Reverend Robert Bradford, Member of Parliament for South Belfast in November 1981, the attack on the Household Cavalry in London in July 1982 in which eight died, the Irish Nationalist Liberation Army bombing of a pub frequented by service personnel in Ballykelly, county Londonderry, which killed seventeen, including twelve soldiers in December 1982, the IRA bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton which nearly wiped out Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet in October 1984 and the IRA mortar attack on Newry RUC station, county Down, that killed nine police in February 1985. The security forces also would chalk up their ‘successes’: six unarmed IRA suspects were shot dead by the RUC in Armagh in 1982, a further ten IRA members were ambushed by SAS undercover squads between December 1983 and December 1985, and by the end of 1983 a series of so-called ‘supergrass’ trials had seen the conviction of scores of IRA suspects, almost all of them on the uncorroborated word of a single informer."
- Ireland: A History, Thomas Bartlett, 526

Okay, so the bomb successfully kills off Thatcher and her Cabinet, what are the ramifications/consequences for the U.K., Northern Ireland, the I.R.A., and the Republic of Ireland? The E.U. and global politics?
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