{"id":168920,"date":"2025-12-01T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168920\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:48:09","slug":"the-indo-daily-50-years-on-the-dublin-airport-bombing-lost-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168920\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indo Daily: 50 years on: The Dublin Airport bombing lost in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/122bcf24-1cf9-46fb-81c5-b38dc77b5eef.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">November 29, 1975 is not often quoted as a day of significance in Irish history. But at 1.20pm that afternoon Dublin Airport became the site of a bomb attack. Nine were injured, and Aer Lingus baggage handler John Hayes lost his life.  Just like any ordinary day, John had kissed his wife goodbye, went in to work and brought his lunch in with him.  The tragedy that claimed John Hayes\u2019s life has been largely forgotten by the wider public over the last five decades \u2013 but for those who still seek answers it is as pressing as ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">So, what exactly happened at Dublin airport that day? Who were the perpetrators, and will they ever be named? And will the Hayes family ever get justice?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On today\u2019s Indo Daily, Kevin Doyle is joined by John Hayes\u2019s son Brendan to discuss the disastrous events of that day and the family\u2019s campaign for answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We want to earn your trust and are members of the Trust Project. See our ethics policies at independent.ie\/ourjournalism  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"November 29, 1975 is not often quoted as a day of significance in Irish history. But at 1.20pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-168920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}