Qualla: Warrenpoint Ambush https://qualla.com/warrenpoint-ambush en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/warrenpoint-ambush-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Warrenpoint Ambush https://qualla.com/warrenpoint-ambush Warrenpoint Ambush: Introduction https://qualla.com/warrenpoint-ambush/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. It was a bright Bank Holiday Monday on the Newry River, and the convoy of paratroopers was just minutes from base. At 16:40 on 27 August 1979, an 800-pound bomb hidden in a hay-laden lorry parked along the A2 road at Narrow Water Castle was detonated by remote control. The first lorry of the convoy was torn apart. Six soldiers died instantly. What followed over the next half hour, on a quiet stretch of road between woodland and tidal estuary, would become the deadliest single attack on the British Army during the thirty years of the Troubles, and the worst loss for the Parachute Regiment since the Second World War. The same afternoon, on the other side of Ireland, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by a bomb on his boat off Mullaghmore in County Sligo.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/warrenpoint-ambush-wp/gcee-warrenpoint-ambush-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Warrenpoint Ambush: Narrow Water https://qualla.com/warrenpoint-ambush/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. The geography did the planners' work. Narrow Water Castle sits on the northern bank of the Newry River, the tidal channel that here marks the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. On the southern shore, the wooded Cooley Peninsula in County Louth rises directly from t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/warrenpoint-ambush-wp/gcee-warrenpoint-ambush-narrow-water.mp3 0:06 2 full Warrenpoint Ambush: The First Bomb https://qualla.com/warrenpoint-ambush/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. The first explosion at 16:40 destroyed the rear lorry and killed six paratroopers. The driver, Anthony Wood, was twenty-five years old. Only his pelvis remained in the wreckage, welded to the seat by the heat. Two soldiers in the same vehicle survived with serious injuries. Survi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/warrenpoint-ambush-wp/gcee-warrenpoint-ambush-the-first-bomb.mp3 0:06 3 full Warrenpoint Ambush: Thirty-Two Minutes Later https://qualla.com/warrenpoint-ambush/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. At 17:12, a second 800-pound bomb hidden in milk pails at the stone gateway detonated as the helicopter was lifting off with the wounded. It struck the command point exactly as the IRA cell on the far bank had predicted. Twelve more soldiers were killed, among them Lieutenant Col...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/warrenpoint-ambush-wp/gcee-warrenpoint-ambush-thirty-two-minutes-later.mp3 0:06 4 full Warrenpoint Ambush: Two Civilians, A Border, And A Mistake https://qualla.com/warrenpoint-ambush/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. In the chaos after the first blast, British soldiers fired across the river into the Republic. They killed William Hudson, a 29-year-old Englishman from London, and wounded his cousin Barry Hudson, a 25-year-old from Dingle in County Kerry. The men were on holiday on the Cooley P...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/warrenpoint-ambush-wp/gcee-warrenpoint-ambush-two-civilians-a-border-and-a-mistake.mp3 0:06 5 full Warrenpoint Ambush: Eighteen Names https://qualla.com/warrenpoint-ambush/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sixteen of the eighteen British soldiers killed at Warrenpoint were paratroopers. They were members of the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment and the Queen's Own Highlanders. The youngest was nineteen. Most had been in Northern Ireland only weeks. In republican areas, graffi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/e/warrenpoint-ambush-wp/gcee-warrenpoint-ambush-eighteen-names.mp3 0:06 6 full Warrenpoint Ambush: What Came After https://qualla.com/warrenpoint-ambush/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. Margaret Thatcher visited the site within days. The British military reorganised its security command in Northern Ireland; Sir Maurice Oldfield was appointed to coordinate intelligence between the Army, MI5, and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and the RUC was expanded by 1,000 off...

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