O'Connell , as the bomb-maker of the group , was responsible for making the first devices the ASU let off in their campaign , in the Guildford pub bombings on 5 October 1974 . This was the beginning of a wide-ranging and peripatetic number of attacks O'Connell was involved in , ranging from the kidnapping of a bus inspector and the bombing of the Kings Arms , Woolwich , to throwing hand bombs into Sir Edward Heath 's club and the Harrow School and the assassination of an insurance broker . In August 1975 , only a few months before his capture , he took part in the bombing of the Caterham Arms , Surrey
bombing of the Caterham Arms , Surrey
Caterham Arms pub bombing
Joe O'Connell (Irish republican)