Ka cika wannan jumla: Ireland ta Arewa tana cikin wani yanayi na tashin hankali. 'Yan tawaye sun dasa bama-bamai kuma sun kashe abokan gabanta, ciki har da Airey Neave a shekarar 1979, babban abokin Thatcher wanda aka tsara zai dauki nauyin can. Sojojin 'Yancin Kasa na Irish (INLA), wata kungiyar' yan Republican, ta dauki alhakin. A ranar 27 ga Agusta 1979, IRA ta kashe Lord Mountbatten, memba na dangin sarauta, kuma wasu rukunin sun kashe 'yan sanda 18. Sa'a ce kawai da sanyin safiyar ranar 12 ga Oktoba 1984 ta ceci rayuwar Thatcher yayin da aka kashe mutane biyar da bam din da Provisional Irish Republican Army ya sanya a cikin
Babban Otal din Brighton yayin taron Jam'iyyar Conservative.