Dublin, Ireland - After stating the death of a nine-year-old boy was the deed of the British army for decades, the infamous Irish Republican Army, or IRA, officially apologized for the death of Gordon Gallagher.
Gordon was a nine-year-old who accidentally stepped on a bomb in his parents' yard, leading to his death.
His father, Billy, said of the apology "I am glad they take full responsibility and accept that they were to blame and no one else," a reference to when two unknown IRA members approached him and said they planted the bomb but without a detonator. Instead they insisted British soldiers added it on in an attempt to make the IRA look bad. Billy says he "Never believed that for a second."
The admission and apology comes after Gordon's parents asked Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander in Londonderry, to tell them who planted the bomb and why. McGuiness didn't fulfill the request short of admitting it was the act of the IRA. He himself was in jail at the time.
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