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Ivor Bell, former IRA Chief of Staff, was arrested in March 2014. [48] Shortly afterwards, he was charged with aiding and abetting in her murder. [49] [50] In April, the PSNI arrested three people who were teenagers at the time of the kidnapping: a 56-year-old man and two women, aged 57 and 60. All were released without charge.
Dolours Price (16 December 1950 [1] – 23 January 2013) was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer. Price grew up in an Irish republican family and joined the IRA in 1971. She was sent to jail for her role in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, but released in 1981. She married actor Stephen Rea in 1983. In her later life, Price was a ...
Marian Price (born 1954), also known by her married name as Marian McGlinchey, [1] is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer.. Born into a Republican family in Belfast, Price joined the IRA in 1971, along with her sister Dolours Price.
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.
Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose were Australian tourists shot dead in Roermond, the Netherlands by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 27 May 1990, which stated it had mistaken them for off-duty British soldiers. [1] The attack was part of an IRA campaign in Continental Europe.
Also in the 1980s, the Provisional IRA were involved in the kidnapping and ransom of businessmen Gaelen Weston, Ben Dunne and Don Tidey. Activities such as these were linked to the IRA's fund-raising. Gardaí estimate that the Provisional IRA got up to £1.5 million from these activities. [217]
The IRA had waged a terrorist campaign against the British establishment for years and the royal family was rocked when republicans murdered the Queen’s second cousin, Lord Mountbatten, in 1979 ...
During the 20th century, most attacks were carried out by various Irish Republican Army (IRA) groups and were linked to the Northern Ireland conflict (the Troubles). In the late 20th century there were also isolated attacks by Middle Eastern terrorist groups, though the vast majority of the attacks were the work of the IRA and splinter groups.