1972: Caught On Camera - IRA Hotel Bomb 

Bombed 36 times and still open for business? Those hotel clerks are really dedicated lol

Least violent day in Northern Ireland:

When you ask for an 8am wake up call from the hotel we take is seriously in belfast 😂😂😂😂😂

Props to the cameraman. That guy has balls of steel.

If your mate was selling his car and it was rough looking they would say " ffs its been hit more times than the europa hotel " lol

Most bombed hotel in Europe still offering rooms at exorbitant rates.

"Half the fookin armys out here Franky"

Casually having my volume up to hear the interview AND THEN

Man the Irish are so nice to me despite being a Brit they even bought me a car

*knock knock* Who is it? Car service Car service? We're in a hotel, don't you mean room service? ... Ah yeah sure whatever, open the door please.

"Oh Ireland is a very funny place, sir, it's a strange and a troubeled land"

Well built hotel …. They don’t build them like that anymore

My great aunt was blown up by the IRA. Was a catholic too Story goes: An ira man stole her next door apartment neighbors ID, robbed a nearby store then dropped it to frame him In his apartment (they had already kidnapped and murdered the man) they rigged bombs that would go off upon opening the door My great aunt decided "I havent seen him in a while, im gonna go check on him" so she went with another neighbor, knocked on the door and didnt get a response Eventually she just tried entering, turned the handle and was immediately blown to bits, only my granny was allowed to see the body to identify it and said it was beyond words, and that there was so so little left of her yet it was so clear who it was

Its funny how he literally looks like the photo every nothern irish person has of their uncle/grandad, they all looked like that 🤣

The cameraman barely flinched and the person being interviewed dived behind the cameraman!!😂😂

POV: most peaceful day in a tv soap

The IRA tried recruiting the stoic cameraman the next day

Bombed 36 times and it didn’t collapse at free fall speed into its own footprint? Incredible.

"Hey kids do you want to live forever?"

Anorak with Hoods Up was the go word! Doh!

I served in Belfast in the 90s and when off duty on a Sunday I used to go to the nightclub that was in the basement of this hotel. On one side of the night club was Loyalists, the other Republican. Never seen any fights. Great nights in there.

If that was my alarm clock I'd still sleep in

We stayed in this hotel. It was a present for my wife, a few days in Belfast. As we went to bed , I asked her what she thought of the Hotel. "Lovely" she said... I then told her it was the most bombed hotel during the troubles....

Me and my mates were in the town centre when this hotel was blown up it was manic the ground moved under our feet we fell to the ground I was 17 at the time too close for comfort I left Ireland at 18 couldn't take it no more I go back to see family still love my beautiful Ireland and the people I'm proud to be irsh,

Two things 1. Never anger the irish. 2. never think you can corner a scotsman.The crown really did not learn that through the years.

'Most bombed hotel in Europe ' is a phrase I've heard countless times, as if hotels in Europe were constantly being blown up !

Meanwhile maggie thatcher is having dinner on ground floor

*come out ye Black and Tans intensifies*

There is nothing beautiful in war except its end

sad times for everyone and belfast is a changed place ,too many innocents on both sides got killed

Lucky the whole building didn’t completely collapse in on its own footprint like a controlled demolition type of thing hey! 🤔🤔

In the 70s, a terrorist was portayed a pale white man with an Irish accent and ginger hair. In the 2000s, a terrorist was a tanned man with an Arab accent and black hair. I wonder what the next terrorist staple will be. Edit: It seems most of you have completely missed my point. My point that I was trying to make is the stereotype on TV and in Movies. Not what they actually are. Again. Stereotype. Not Reality. Jesus Christ, I can't believe I had to come back and explain this to many of you.

Jesus the Irish knew how to make bomb's, nearly dropped my phone with the fright i got,

Brings a tear to my eye

The boys didn't mess about back in the day Jesus

They told folks to leave the building first

"am I a good demoman, well if I weren't i wouldn't be sitting here talking to ya now would"

Awful days at the hands of coward's

Ireland unfree will never be at peace

the translation of a bomb blast "applause"

Looks like a Chicago crack house.

The result of an empire that was too selfish to give up a whole island and just had to keep a tiny bit.

You're gonna need a bigger hotel.

Seems like the cameraman was expecting it.

I was there a year earlier before it opened as a contract Electrician (for Rotary Electrical) & the on site Shop Steward when it was being built, the angle of the building was a few degrees out of line, so our multi-way ceiling Trunking was out of line too, terrible winter conditions as I remember it, but I was young then.

I remember seeing this news report I can't believe it's over fifty years ago now.

reddit got me here.

Would love to see the trivago reviews. 'I had a really lovely stay here at the

“Hello and welcome to the Europa hotel. Here is your room key. You’ll find your room on the third floor with a ticking noise coming from under the bath. That’s just normal sir. Will you be wanting breakfast?”

Im learning about IRA history, and this, this is scary.

Most bombed hotel in Belfast. Probably the world during that time. I worked in it once as a trainee chef

Cameraman hardly moved.

I stayed in a hotel just up the road from that recently.

“Hey kids do you want to live forever?” Ya’ll know why you’re here

I was born on a Dublin street Where the royal drums they beat

This was just how we grew up. None of us realised how savage it was til we left Thankfully today we have peace at home, albeit still tainted with historical differences, but as a u ited Ireland grows closer, I fear more trouble in future as the orange men will resist a united Ireland til death. Sadly, our politicians are erasing our culture, and the enemy is now the hostile invaders

The guy they were interviewing had seen this play before Dude was out of there

Camera Man didn’t flinch ❤

What were these people like? Were they masked? Anoraks with there hoods up🙄 They had there hoods up? They had there hoods..... EXPLOSION!!! Had me rolling on the ground 😂🤣🤣

irish people such pure heart and nice people, im very sad that they faced alot of heartbreaking eras 🥺

I'm just curious what the previous most bombed hotel in the world was

Was there last year and it’s still going strong

Amazing

I aint Irish, but i suddenly feel extremely patriotic for Ireland. Tiocfaidh ar la!

Will do the interview just over here please face us while we get you in the shot 😆

When we heard a bomb go of in the city we used to try and guess where it happened, it was so casual for us.

And up she goes ! Derry gold !

Every english person that has been to belfast, and hears that im from there, proudly tells me that they stayed in the europa, and that it was the most bombed hotel in western europe And each and every time i have to put on my best surprised face and act like i didnt know

seems like "hoods up" was the signal ..... 🤔

“Oi, it’s tuesday, innit?”

Stayed in that hotel when I worked on the circuit of Ireland rally and actually saw Barry mcguigan when he was in the news , sitting in the lounge . One thing I noticed was the size of his hands.

the guests asked for a early morning call.

Happened in 92ish aswell i was just a baby at the time in the pram and the window smashed in on top of me apparently

Wonder where they got the idea for this? Perhaps The Day After (1983)?

Knock knock Whos there? Tick tick Tick tick who? Tick tick BOOOOOOOOM

THE OUL BREAKFAST MUST HAVE HAD A BIT OF DUST😅😅😅

Belfast will be free

I was expecting the guy that's being interviewed to come back on saying AS I WAS SAYING

Why bomb a hotel? Why not something more.... Important? Did they not get their deposit back?

-So you were here when they bombed the hotel , how does it looked like ? -Well uh they arrived masked and *sudden explosion*

My word what’s that spell mr camera man it’s no me it’s him 😂😂😂

FREEDOM FOR IRELAND!

Maybe leave our country if you wanted that to stop 😂

It’s a shame these things happened, but all the Brits ever had to do was leave.

The Irish was always glad to exchange British tea for an Irish bomb.

My phone speaker near fell out

That was crazy

That building literally shook.

i was born in a dublin street

The Wopa part of my 23 pub - pub crawl, used to do Robinsons the Crown and the Wopa and then do them again in the middle of the pub crawl, that was called the "Bermuda Triangle" as by that stage people would start to disappear

I'm Mexican, go Ireland!!

Pardon me, but do you have a room on the south side, ground floor?

Could i get an upgrade 😂

Average day in northern ireland

My Dad is Northern Irish, and he was 3 when this happened.

Tiocfaidh ár lá - Our Day Will Come in Irish ☘️

Why this hotel???

Was there a threat phoned in or did the people shown first run out after the bang?

Is this the one Brian was talking about

Our tour guide in belfast said as a joke if security didnt find a bomb on you when you go to the europa they would give you one