09-05-2025
‘It was horror, pure and simple': The day the IRA brought carnage to Claudy
New book reveals details of the 1972 atrocity which saw three car bombs take nine lives
The sleepy village of Claudy in Co Londonderry had a population of just 620 in July 1972. A mixed community, it was the kind of place where everybody knew each other's business.
Derek Wilson — a former B-Special — was living there at the time. 'It was a quiet place, you know. It was majority Protestant, but there were lots of Catholics too, and everyone rubbed along, you know what I mean.'
