The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Eleven people were killed and 63 injured when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town's war memorial (cenotaph) shortly before a Remembrance Sunday ceremony – held to commemorate British military personnel. The bombing has been described by the BBC as a turning point in The Troubles, and an attack that shook the IRA "to its core".
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