• The killings of Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the night of 25/26 June 1973. The victims, Roman Catholic Senator...
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  • Democratic and Labour Party Senator Paddy Wilson, who was stabbed to death and had his throat cut in 1973 along with Irene Andrews, Wilson's Protestant...
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  • White was later convicted for his part in the murders. Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews killings Chronology of the Conflict: June 1973, CAIN Thomas Hennessey...
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  • Tommy Potts and Matthew McCormick as a C Company hit team with the aim of killing Provisional Irish Republican Army commanders Brian Gillen and Martin Lynch...
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    tartan scarves and flash of tartan they wore on their denim jackets. The tartan was said to commemorate the 1971 Scottish soldiers' killings by the Provisional...
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  • double killing of Social Democratic and Labour Party Senator Paddy Wilson and his companion, Irene Andrews, a Protestant. Wilson had offered Andrews a lift...
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  • stealing a sledgehammer and their car, both of which were to be used in the killing of Fullerton. At 2:00 am on 25 May 1991, Fullerton and his wife were woken...
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  • temporarily halted killings in East Belfast. Herron's decision to stop the random killings, as well as his meeting with communists and rumours about his...
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  • and Hugh Jordan and identified by them only as "Davy", he and Barrett had collaborated on a number of killings at the time, including that of Paddy McAllister...
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    his uncompromising attitudes and his anti-UVF views. Under Gregg, the South East Antrim Brigade was linked to the killing of UVF member Mark Quail during...
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  • 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2019-06-07. "Sligo Today News for Sligo County - Killing of local TD in election recalled in new book". Archived from the original...
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  • the killings. It was at this that time Robinson left Northern Ireland. He was neither arrested for involvement in nor questioned about the killings. Robinson...
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  • killings. Smyth's time as C Company's leading gunman came to an end in 1994 when he was arrested whilst on an assignment. Along with Rab Bradshaw and...
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  • Matthew Kincaid is a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary leader and activist. Kincaid is the head of the West Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Defence Association...
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  • supporters out and bring the West Belfast Brigade back into the fold. Adair himself had been returned to prison following the killing of John Gregg earlier...
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  • on 28 October whilst two days later the Tiger's Bay UDA retaliated by killing Herbert Rice, a 63-year-old Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) activist who...
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  • president Gerry Adams in 1984. The killing provoked outrage amongst the other UDA leaders and as a result Adair and his associates, including McCullough...
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    Joseph Kelly, 47, and James Joseph Reynolds, 16, both Catholic civilians, had been killed by the East Belfast UDA in revenge for the killing of Elliott, after...
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    the Sean Graham's and James Murray's bookmakers' shootings, the Castlerock killings, killings of Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews and the Greysteel massacre...
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  • obtained a photograph of Slane and had shown it to eyewitnesses who identified Slane as the driver at Quee's killing. Nelson claimed that he then gave...
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    Loyalist Association of Workers (category 1973 labor disputes and strikes)
    members ensured that electricity supplies were halted in Belfast and other areas and forced the closure of many shops through intimidation. Protests were...
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    by Harding Smith. Initial membership of the WDA was primarily middle-aged and disinclined to take violent action. However, Davy Fogel interrupted an early...
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    Mountbatten's boat, and traces of nitroglycerine, were found on his clothes, and on 23 November 1979 he was convicted of the killings in the Republic of...
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  • 1973 Coleraine bombings (category Car and truck bombings in Northern Ireland)
    unleashing a series of sectarian killings of Catholics that culminated in the double killing of Senator Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews on 26 June. Sinn Féin councillor...
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    The Troubles (category Rebellions in the United Kingdom and Ireland)
    group include the Dublin and Monaghan bombings (1974), the Miami Showband killings (1975), and the Reavey and O'Dowd killings (1976). The Stevens Inquiries...
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  • Wilson and another woman, Irene Andrews, were killed by the UFF, a codename for the UDA. John White was later convicted for his part in the killings....
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  • because he was a prominent member of the NICRA[expand initialism]; the killings could have also been in reprisal for the murder of Pvt. John Robert “Robin”...
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  • claim the killings, but justified them in a statement on 17 January 1976, "The Irish Republican Army has never initiated sectarian killings ... [but]...
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  • unless their corpse is seen at the beginning of the next episode (e.g. Paddy Lawson): List of Prisoner characters – prison staff List of Prisoner characters...
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  • double murder of Senator Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews in 1973, used the Balmoral bombing as justification for these killings and others. Within a month...
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