1994 Dublin-Belfast train bombing
On 12 September 1994 the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) planted a 1.5 kg bomb on the Belfast–Dublin train. It partially exploded as the train neared Dublin Connolly railway station, injuring two people. Bombing. The device went off at 11.34 am as the 9 am train from Belfast was coming into Connolly Station, Dublin, around the same time as a UVF spokesman was giving a telephone warning to Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail). Only the detonator of the bomb exploded, causing only minor injuries to two women's legs and spaying other passengers with unexploded Powergel . The bomb was planted under a seat on the train. A Garda forensic expert said later that the bomb contained 2 kg of commercial explosive and could have caused serious casualties if it had detonated properly. At the time the Irish Justice Minister, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, said intelligence reports warned of a 'dramatic' increase in the loyalist threat in the wake of the IRA ceasefire: "the republican movement have made a decision to go with the democratic process, and it would appear very strongly that nothing is going to deviate them from that". Aftermath. Chris Hudson, who was the Irish  peace process's go-between, between the UVF and the Irish Government, recalled, straight after the bombing, ringing the PUP (the UVF's political wing ) and shouting down the phone at them "a bomb on a fucking train, thanks very much!". He said he had to keep fighting for peace and an end to UVF violence. The UVF later said the bomb was put there "as a warning to the southern government that the Ulster people will not be engulfed into United Ireland by coercion, persuasion, force or political stealth". On 13 October 1994 the Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC ) issued a statement which announced a ceasefire on behalf of all loyalist paramilitaries, noting that the "permanence of our cease-fire will be completely dependent upon the continued cessation of all nationalist/republican violence".