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The New IRA claimed responsibility and said it also planted an "anti-personnel device" nearby, targeting members of the security forces. [222] 18 June: The New IRA was blamed for planting a booby-trap bomb under the car of a married couple, both of whom are PSNI officers, in Eglinton. It was found and defused by the security forces. [224]
The IRA receives another batch of M16 and AR-15 rifles from the Harrison network. [6] In 1973 the IRA receives another consignment of arms from Libya but the arms are intercepted on board the Claudia by members of the Gardaí. Leading IRA man Joe Cahill and others arrested. The shipment consisted of 250 AK-47 rifles and other materiel.
It targeted the security forces in firearm attacks and bombings, and with grenades, mortars and rockets. The Real IRA was also responsible for bombings in Northern Ireland and England with the goal of causing economic harm and disruption, the most notable being the 1998 Omagh bombing, which killed 29 people. After that bombing, the Real IRA ...
The most effective tactic the IRA developed for its bombing campaign was the car bomb, where large amounts of explosives were packed into a car, which was driven to its target and then detonated. Seán Mac Stíofáin, the first Chief of Staff of the Provisional IRA, described the car bomb both as a tactical and strategic weapon. From the ...
17 January – Dunmurry train bombing: An IRA bomb prematurely detonated on a passenger train near Belfast, killing three civilians and injuring five others. 7 March – an INLA active service unit planted two 10 lb. bombs at Netheravon British Army camp in the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Only one bomb detonated and caused damage, started a ...
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.
Mangione is accused of fatally shooting Thompson as the 50-year-old CEO walked to a Manhattan hotel where UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, was holding its annual investor ...
The targeting of English locations was also used in the 1881-1885 Fenian dynamite campaign and the IRAs 1939-40 bombing and sabotage campaign known as the English Campaign or the S-Plan.The Balcombe Street Unit was possibly the most effective IRA unit ever to carry out a bombing campaign in England. They had a focus on London (in particular the ...