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Disease-related deaths in Northern Ireland (4 C) E. People executed by Northern Ireland (2 P) F. Deaths by firearm in Northern Ireland (159 P) M.
Stephen Grimason (27 March 1957– 28 April 2024) was a Northern Irish journalist who was editor of BBC Northern Ireland. [1] He was known for breaking the news of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998. [2]
Lyra Catherine McKee (/ ˈ l ɪər ə m ə ˈ k iː / [1] 31 March 1990 – 18 April 2019) [2] was a journalist from Northern Ireland who wrote for several publications about the consequences of the Troubles. She also served as an editor for Mediagazer, a news aggregator website.
The Castlerock killings took place on 25 March 1993 in the village of Castlerock, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group, shot dead three Catholic civilians and a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member as they arrived for work in a van. Another was wounded. [1]
Catherine and Gerard Mahon were a husband and wife [1] who lived in Twinbrook, Belfast. [2] Gerard, aged twenty-eight, was a mechanic; Catherine, was twenty-seven. [3] They were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 8 September 1985, [4] the IRA alleging they were informers.
Margaret Perry was a 26-year-old woman from Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland who was abducted on 21 June 1991. [1] After a tip from the IRA, her body was found buried across the border in a field in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, on 30 June 1992. [2] She had been beaten to death. Her murder has never been solved. [3]
Representatives of other groups from all sides of the constitutional issue in Northern Ireland also condemned the killings. [11] The then Chelsea F.C. chairman, Ken Bates, offered a £100,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for the attackers. [12] Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern attended a memorial mass in Dublin for the children. [13]
On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings. Wearing civilian clothes, both armed with Browning Hi-Power pistols and in a civilian car, the soldiers drove into the funeral procession of an IRA member ...