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This week Pop Goes Northern Ireland focuses on 1987. Unionists continue their campaign against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, launching a petition demanding a NI referendum. A feud breaks out between the INLA and breakaway faction the IPLO, which costs the lives of 13 people. The funerals of IRA men are marked by confrontation between mourners and the RUC, who are trying to prevent paramilitary displays. Lord Justice Gibson is the victim of an IRA bomb attack and eight IRA men are killed by the SAS during an attack on Loughgall RUC station.

In November, the French authorities seize 150 tonnes of Libyan weapons bound for the IRA and an IRA bomb explodes at the Cenotaph during the annual Remembrance Day ceremony, killing 11 people.

In December, UDA leader John McMichael is killed by an IRA car bomb - it is believed that some members of the UDA assisted the IRA. Show less