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13 April 1972: The IRA detonated a car-bomb on Main Street, Ballymoney, County Antrim. Despite a warning to evacuate the area, a Protestant civilian, Elizabeth McAuley (aged 64), was killed. [53] 13 April 1972: A car showroom was utterly destroyed in Belfast after a car bomb was driven into the parking area by an IRA volunteer, who gave the alarm.
The Thiepval Barracks bombing was a double car bomb attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 7 October 1996. The bombs exploded inside Thiepval Barracks, the British Army headquarters in Northern Ireland.
By the end of the century Barbour's Linen Thread Company was the largest mill of its kind in the world employing about 2000 people to work 30,000 spindles and 8,000 twisting machines. The company had built a model village for the workers, with 350 houses, two schools, a community hall, children's playground and a village sports ground. [27]
30 January: the IRA detonated several bombs in the centres of Belfast and Lisburn causing extensive damage. [182] [183] [184] 31 January: the British Army defused a car bomb left on Springfield Drive, Belfast. [184] 31 January: Two armed and masked IRA men planted a bomb in Clancy's Tavern on Main Street in Belleek.
15 June 1988 - Derek Green (20), Michael Winkler (31), Mark Clavey (24), Graham Lambie (22), William Paterson (22) and Ian Metcalfe (36), off duty members of the British Army, were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby trap bomb attached to their minibus, Market Place, Lisburn. (See 1988 Lisburn van bombing).
The A3 carries the course of the A26 through the villages of Moira and Magheralin, before the A26 branches off again upon entering Lurgan, heading towards Banbridge. The A3 continues through the town centre of Lurgan, and becomes dual carriageway from the outskirts of Lurgan through a series of roundabouts in what was planned as the new city of ...
The ROC would also detect radioactive fallout from the nuclear bursts and warn the public of approaching fallout. The two organisations were stood down at the end of the Cold War. [3] In early 1970, the barracks also became home to 39 Infantry Brigade [4] and provided the headquarters for the Ulster Defence Regiment. [5]
It served several mills, which were involved in producing Irish linen, along the River Bann near Banbridge. [10] [11] The BJR was absorbed into the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNRI) in 1877. [9] [2] [12] The line closed in 1955. [9]