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    The Ramble Inn attack was a mass shooting at a rural pub on 2 July 1976 near Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is believed to have been carried out by the...
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  • The Milltown Cemetery attack (also known as the Milltown Cemetery killings or Milltown massacre) took place on 16 March 1988 at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast...
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  • 20 September 2000, the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) carried out an attack on MI6's SIS Building headquarters in Vauxhall, Lambeth, London. A Russian-built...
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  • the Warrenpoint massacre or the Narrow Water massacre, was a guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA) on 27 August...
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    Protestant civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Mountainview Tavern on the Shankill Road, Belfast. The attack was claimed by the Republican Action...
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    Loughinisland massacre (category Attacks on bars in Northern Ireland)
    UDA gunmen tried to repeat the Loughinisland massacre when they attacked the Hawthorn Inn in nearby Annaclone. About 40 people were inside watching the...
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  • Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2019. John Innes (21 October 2003). "McGuinness is named as bomb runner". The Scotsman. Edinburgh...
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    On 13 December 1989 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint complex manned by the King's Own Scottish...
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  • The Bayardo Bar attack took place on 13 August 1975 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), led by Brendan...
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  • the deaths of at least 23 people, most of whom were killed in sectarian attacks. The gang kidnapped, tortured and murdered random civilians suspected of...
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  • personnel died in Operation Banner; 722 of whom were killed in paramilitary attacks, and 719 of whom died as a result of other causes. It suffered its greatest...
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  • soldiers and a loyalist volunteer) were killed and 130 were injured. The attack prompted the British Government to implement Operation Motorman, just ten...
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    In the Ballygawley land mine attack of 13 July 1983, four soldiers of the British Army's Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) were killed by a Provisional Irish...
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    claimed responsibility for the two co-ordinated attacks. 7 March 1976: car bomb attack on the Three Star Inn, Castleblayney, County Monaghan. Civilian Patrick...
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    UVF headquarters. The following day, the UVF launched two retaliatory attacks. In the first, UVF members shot dead a Catholic civilian taxi driver in...
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  • UDA's headquarters in the east of the city to be blown up, although this attack also failed. The feud rumbled on for several months in 1976 with a number...
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    Dublin Airport bombing (category Terrorist attacks on airports in Europe)
    of loyalist bomb attacks in the Republic of Ireland between the late 1960s and mid-1970s. Loyalists had been carrying out bomb attacks in the Republic...
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  • Enquiries Team (HET) found that members of the Provisional IRA carried out the attack, despite the organisation being on ceasefire. The HET report said that the...
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    Holy Cross dispute (category Attacks on schools in the United Kingdom)
    loyalists began picketing the school, claiming that Catholics were regularly attacking their homes and denying them access to facilities. The picket resumed...
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  • empty gun was put in his mouth and the trigger pulled, he suffered a heart attack and died shortly after the alleged confrontation. In February 2015, the...
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  • the loyalists proceeded to vandalise many buildings in the village and attacked two police officers before being dispersed by the Garda Síochána. The incident...
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  • Michael Stone had attacked an IRA funeral and killed three people. Believing the soldiers were loyalists intent on repeating Stone's attack, dozens of people...
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    Flagstaff Hill incident Charlemont pub attacks Store Bar shooting Chlorane Bar attack Ramble Inn attack Stag Inn attack Andersonstown incident Garryhinch ambush...
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  • his "accomplices". A UDA member was later imprisoned for his part in the attack and in the Greysteel massacre several months later, but was released in...
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  • Catholic crowd and pushed into the Bogside, followed by loyalists who attacked Catholic homes. Thousands of Bogside residents beat back the RUC with a...
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  • intersection with Marlborough Street. It was in a parking bay outside the Welcome Inn pub and Barry's supermarket at 93 and 91 Parnell Street respectively, and...
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    Flagstaff Hill incident Charlemont pub attacks Store Bar shooting Chlorane Bar attack Ramble Inn attack Stag Inn attack Andersonstown incident Garryhinch ambush...
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  • The Store Bar shooting (category Attacks on buildings and structures in 1976)
    attack earlier in June 1976. A week after the bar shooting in Templepatrick, the UVF carried out a gun attack on a Catholic-owned pub, the Ramble Inn...
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    had supplied Sands with explosives which were later used in a landmine attack on the British Army. Shortly before 2.30 p.m. gunfire was exchanged between...
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  • Omagh bombing (category Attacks by Republicans since the Good Friday Agreement)
    months, it mounted several car bomb and mortar attacks. There were also attacks or attempted attacks in Moira, Portadown, Armagh, Newry, Lisburn, Belfast...
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