December 28

  • 1969 The Sunday Press in Dublin reported a split in the IRA over the issue of contesting elections.
  • 1972 A teenage boy and girl were killed and nine others were injured when a car bomb exploded in Belturbet, Co. Cavan.
  • 1972 In one of three UVF bomb attacks in the Republic of Ireland that day, a teenage boy and a teenage girl were killed when a device left in a car exploded without warning in Belturbet, Co. Cavan. Nine others were injured.