Trial of Donegal man accused of the Hyde Park Bombings starts this week

Hyde Park BombThe trial of a Donegal man accused of the murder of four British soldiers in the Hyde Park Bombings in London in 1982 gets underway on Friday.
61 year old John Downey is accused of killing the four men in an IRA bomb attack.
The Household Cavalry members were killed as they rode from their barracks in Knightsbridge to Buckingham Palace.
Mr Downey was arrested in May at Gatwick Airport in London and appeared in court in September charged with murder.

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