Belfast Gonzo on June 18, 2004, 12:00 am | Readers 1
YETI, the last four-legged survivor of the 1982 Hyde Park bomb blast died last month at The Home of Rest for Horses in Speen.
This is one of my first real memories of the ‘Troubles’. As a seven-year-old kid, I was more into football than the news. But I remember well wondering why anyone would want to blow up horses, and being upset at the TV news describing how bits of people and animals had been torn apart by the nail bomb and scattered over the road. Still makes me shudder.
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