Mick McElkenny, 86, from the Washing Bay near Coalisland in Co Tyrone ... during the pontiff’s trip to Ireland in 1979, and his role as part of Lord Mountbatten’s security in the picturesque ...

At the time, Lord Mountbatten used to spend his summer holidays at his imposing, fairytale castle in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo - where ... to British Ambassador to Ireland Dominick Chilcott during ...

The pair were welcomed by 300 schoolchildren as they arrived in Cookstown, County Tyrone ... visiting Ireland is especially poignant, as it is where his mentor Lord Mountbatten was assassinated ...

Each summer, Mountbatten would holiday at Classiebawn Castle near Mullaghmore in Co Sligo in Ireland. During his annual stay in 1979, a bomb was placed in his boat Shadow V and it detonated on ...

Others killed in the blast were Nicholas Knatchbull, Mountbatten’s elder daughter's fourteen-year-old son; Paul Maxwell, a 15-year-old youth from County ... the Swim Ireland 12-strong team ...

Charles was joined the parents of schoolboy Paul Maxwell who died alongside Lord Mountbatten when the bomb exploded on a boat near the village of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1979.

Mick McElkenny, 86, from the Washing Bay near Coalisland in Co Tyrone ... during the pontiff’s trip to Ireland in 1979, and his role as part of Lord Mountbatten’s security in the picturesque ...