There was a flash in the sky, and Bernie McNally felt her skeleton rattle.
Recounting how the explosion knocked her off her feet and destroyed the shoe store where she works, she exclaimed, “I thought I was hit by lightning.”
In the hush that followed, she heard a groan from a client buried beneath the wreckage.
Bernie had recently survived the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, but 33 others were not as fortunate.
They included a nine-month-pregnant woman and a four-member family with a five-month-old infant.
Nobody has ever been prosecuted.
The 50th anniversary of the loyalist attacks will be commemorated on Friday with memorial events in both places.
