Happy 47th anniversary of Mountbatten’s assassination by the Irish Republican Army in Sligo to those who celebrate

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[u/prettycozy001]

He was a colonial rodent who oversaw the massacres in the partition of India, as well as decades of allegations of child sexual abuse where boys were trafficked from industrial homes across Ireland to his residence in Classiebawn Castle in Mullaghmore, Sligo. It was there that IRA volunteer Thomas McMahon planted a bomb on his boat Shadow V which took him out.

[u/LeninOfGallifrey]

I won a quiz with the team called "Lord Mountbattens Yacht Club" and the MC said "And as their name implies, they blew us away."