The World - News from July 19, 1989

Three Irish guerrilla suspects, one of them linked to a bomb attack on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher five years ago, told a French prosecutor in Paris that they are members of the Irish Republican Army, adding: “We have nothing against France.” Patrick (The Pope) Murray, 45; Donnogh O’Kane, 29, and Pauline Drunns, 22, were picked up last weekend by French police at a tollgate near the West German border. An intelligence source said that Murray was wanted for questioning about the 1984 bombing in Brighton during the annual conference of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party in which five people died. Thatcher was not harmed.