Next day in Derry we called at the home of Hume’s colleague, Ivan Cooper. Outside Cooper’s house, his car was a heap of tangled wreckage. While we were in Donegal he had got a phone call telling him that one of his principal election workers had been injured in an accident and taken to hospital. He was rushing out to the car when it struck him that the caller had not specified which hospital, so he turned back into the house and rang to check. While he was doing so a bomb went off under his car. Had he driven straight to the local hospital, as he had intended, he would have been killed.
