Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Out of Mountjoy in a helicopter

It was 21 degrees Celsius yesterday in Berlin.

And on this date, October 31, 1973 three members of the Provisional IRA made a sensational escape from Mountjoy Prison aboard a hijacked helicopter, which landed in the excercise yard.

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