Colette O'Doherty

Colette O’Doherty 21 years, Dublin, killed in one of three no warning car bomb explosions in Dublin city centre on 17 May 1974. Mrs O’Doherty was married with one child. Twenty-seven people, including Mrs O’Doherty, died or were fatally injured in the Dublin blasts. Shortly after the Dublin blasts a car bomb exploded in Monaghan town killing another seven people. In total thirty-three people died or were fatally injured in the blasts that day. Responsibility for the blasts, now the subject of an Irish Government inquiry, pointed to operatives within British military intelligence because of the detailed planning and co-ordination involved, and the type of explosives used. Although unionist/loyalist personnel were involved in placing of the bombs the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) did not admit its role in the bombings until the mid-1990s.