A former head of the army has dismissed a Sinn Fein apology for the 1979 IRA assassination of Prince Philip’s uncle Louis Mountbatten. Lord Dannatt accused the republicans of trying to ‘rewrite history’ and put themselves in a ‘kinder light’. The IRA,
Sinn Fein apologies for IRA’s 1979 assassination of Prince Philip’s uncle Louis Mountbatten – 24 hours after Duke’s funeral Louis Mountbatten was killed in 1979 when IRA blew up his yacht in Mullaghmore His 14-year-old grandson and the boatman, 15, were both