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The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. [6] It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement, signed earlier in the year.
A 130 lb car bomb was defused by the British Army. [84] 20 November: The RIRA attempted to ambush PSNI and British Army members in Newcastle, County Down. The group claimed there was a bomb at the empty Enniskeen Hotel. However, this was a hoax meant to draw the police and army towards the real bomb. The time bomb was found and made safe. [85 ...
In May 1970, Irish politicians Charles Haughey, Neil Blaney, and John Kelly, Irish Army Captain James Kelly, and Belgian businessman Albert Luykx were acquitted during the Arms Crisis of smuggling weapons to the IRA during the beginning of the conflict. The primary and prominent source of arms in the Republic of Ireland for the IRA was explosives.
20 December – Biddy Mulligan's pub bombing: The UDA bombed a popular Irish pub in London, injuring five people. 31 December – Central Bar bombing: Members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) using a cover name, Armagh People's Republican Army, bombed a pub in Portadown, killing three Protestant civilians and injuring 30 people.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
25 January: a RUC officer was killed and others were badly injured after an IRA unit launched two drogue bombs at their armoured patrol in Mulholland Terrace in West Belfast. The RUC said this was the first time an officer had been killed by a "drogue bomb/impact grenade". A British Army bomb disposal officer described the devices as "devastating".
the British Army defused a 15 lb (6.8 kg) bomb in the Bogside area of Derry. [145] an IRA unit threw a blast bomb at an RUC patrol vehicle on Gardenmore Road, Twinbrook, Belfast. [152] 14 September 1990: the British Army defused a 15 lb (6.8 kg) bomb in a bar opposite the Law Courts in Belfast city centre. [145]
a 500 lb (230 kg) device was defused by the Irish Army near the border in County Louth. [33] the IRA detonated a 10 lb (4.5 kg) bomb on the Belfast-Larne railway line. [39] 21 February 1992: a coffee jar bomb was lobbed at a British Army patrol but failed to explode in the Creggan area of Derry. [25]