Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
The IRA claimed responsibility, stating the attack was a response to the trial of three RUC officers who had shot three IRA members.
Lord Justice Gibson and his wife were killed by a remote controlled car bomb as they drove over the Irish border back into Northern Ireland on April 25th 1987 after a holiday in the United States. As the judge's car reached Drumad, the townland on the County Louth side of the border, he stopped to shake hands with the Garda Síochána security escort who had completed their part of the assignment. The couple had only a short drive to meet the Royal Ulster Constabulary escort to Belfast.
Between the two points lay the bomb, near a petrol station near Killeen in County Armagh. The explosion threw the Gibsons' vehicle across the road, killing the couple immediately. The explosion also injured Ireland national rugby union team players Nigel Carr, David Irwin and Philip Rainey who were in a car on the same road.
The IRA claimed responsibility, stating the attack was a response to the trial of three RUC officers who had shot three IRA members.
Lord Justice Gibson and his wife were killed by a remote controlled car bomb as they drove over the Irish border back into Northern Ireland on April 25th 1987 after a holiday in the United States. As the judge's car reached Drumad, the townland on the County Louth side of the border, he stopped to shake hands with the Garda Síochána security escort who had completed their part of the assignment. The couple had only a short drive to meet the Royal Ulster Constabulary escort to Belfast.
Between the two points lay the bomb, near a petrol station near Killeen in County Armagh. The explosion threw the Gibsons' vehicle across the road, killing the couple immediately. The explosion also injured Ireland national rugby union team players Nigel Carr, David Irwin and Philip Rainey who were in a car on the same road.
