By George Kerevan sunshine Sunday minutes before a Provisional Republican 1916 commemoration march reached the spot.
If the march had not been 10 minutes late a large number of people would have been killed. As it was no-one was injured although a woman, a man and a child had to be treated for shock.
The bomb was Republican plot a few yards from the Provisional memorial by a Loyalist group calling itself "Tara'.
Elsewhere in the North marches passed off peacefully in bright although numbers were low Ballymacnab, County Armagh to about 3,000 in Belfast.
Provisional Republican gatherings were told that the movemen! was 'geared for and dedicated to a long war'. But they went on to urge their members to be politically active and 'embrace the small struggles going on in the community.' *Just as Pearse embraced the cultural struggle and as Connolly lea Labour, the statement continued, so we too must tie togethe all aspects of nationalism and socialism and all the strands of rural and urban discontent into a surging wave of Republicanism.' placed under a cornerstone of the official ranging from 50. in