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A rare red warning for extreme and damaging winds was issued for Northern Ireland and Southern Central Scotland. [29] Winds in the red warning zone were expected to reach 121–129 km/h (75–80 mph) inland (higher winds for Glasgow around 129–137 km/h (80–85 mph)) and 137–153 km/h (85–95 mph), possibly 160 km/h (100 mph) on coasts.
The group would quickly become the largest loyalist group in Northern Ireland. [33] 2 November Red Lion Pub bombing – the Provisional IRA exploded a bomb inside a pub on the Shankill Road, Belfast. The blast killed three Protestant civilians and around 30 other people were injured, some seriously.
2 May - Rose & Crown Bar bombing - Six Catholic civilians were killed and 18 injured by a UVF bomb at a bar on Ormeau Road, Belfast. [11] 17 May – Dublin and Monaghan bombings: the UVF detonated four bombs (three in Dublin, one in Monaghan) in the Republic of Ireland. They killed 33 civilians including a pregnant woman.
Storm Darragh (known as Storm Xaveria in Germany) [1] was a powerful extratropical cyclone which severely impacted Ireland and the United Kingdom in December 2024. The fourth named (using the western group naming list) storm of the 2024–25 European windstorm season, Darragh was named by the UK Met Office on 5 December 2024.
Storm Arwen was named by the Met Office on 25 November 2021. [2] [3] Red warnings for wind were issued for north-eastern parts of the UK, as well as extensive amber and yellow warnings for much of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and most of England.
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The IRA vehicles were escorted by scout cars, to alert about the presence of security checkpoints ahead. [ 39 ] Two different sources include in the campaign two incidents that happened outside South Armagh; one in Belcoo , County Fermanagh , where a constable was killed, [ 41 ] the other in West Belfast , which resulted in the death of a ...
Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) was an Irish republican vigilante group active mainly in Derry and the surrounding area, including parts of counties Londonderry and Tyrone in Northern Ireland, and parts of County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. It targeted those who it claimed were drug dealers. [1]