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The Brighton bombing was an inevitable result of the British presence in this country. Far from being a blow against democracy it was a blow for democracy.

— Gerry Adams

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Source: On IRA bombing of Grand Hotel in Brighton, in which five people were killed. (November 3, 1984)
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