They were banned in NI for my whole childhood, because apparently you could make a viable bomb if you bought £20,000 worth. The only people who had fireworks were those who got the ferry to Scotland to buy them or police who seized them coming back from Scotland. IRA could have made a good target list by driving round taking addresses of people with Roman candles in their garden.
They were banned in NI for my whole childhood, because apparently you could make a viable bomb if you bought £20,000 worth. The only people who had fireworks were those who got the ferry to Scotland to buy them or police who seized them coming back from Scotland. IRA could have made a good target list by driving round taking addresses of people with Roman candles in their garden.