The Story presents: The Poppy Day Bomb
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today we bring you the first episode from The Times' new investigative series, The Poppy Day Bomb.
On Remembrance Sunday in 1987, an IRA bomb went off in Mario Ledwith’s hometown of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, which ultimately killed 12 people. A lifetime later, Mario returns to investigate the silence surrounding that terror attack.
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Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence that you may find upsetting.
Host: Mario Ledwith, news reporter, The Times.
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| 1:04.8 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm Luke Jones. |
| 1:13.0 | Today we're bringing you the first in a brand new series |
| 1:16.1 | from our Times Investigates podcast. |
| 1:19.6 | The Poppy Day bomb follows reporter Mario Ledwith |
| 1:22.5 | as he returns to his hometown of Ennis Skillin in Northern Ireland |
| 1:25.7 | to investigate one of the most violent incidents of the troubles. |
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