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Gordons Chemists is a chain of more than 60 pharmacies, located in the UK. Gordons Chemists is based primarily in Northern Ireland, with a number of branches also in Scotland. [1] [2] Gordons Chemists operates an online ordering and delivery service for health and beauty goods via its Gordons Direct website, posting to UK and the Republic of ...
the IRA bombed a bank premises in Gloucester Street in Belfast city centre. [250] British security forces defused a 700 lb (320 kg) IRA car bomb in Chichester Street in Belfast city centre. [249] There were also several hoax bombs. [249] 24 November 1992: an IRA unit exchanged fire with a combined British Army/RUC patrol at Castlederg, County ...
21 July – Bloody Friday: Nine people die and over one hundred are injured in a series of Provisional IRA explosions in Belfast city centre. 31 July Operation Motorman, 4:00 AM: British Army begins to regain control of the "no-go areas" established by Irish republican paramilitaries in Belfast, Derry ("Free Derry") and Newry. [8]
Cries of ‘no surrender’ echoed at Stormont on Saturday afternoon as thousands gathered to mark 100 years since partition.
The car bomb exploded outside The News Letter offices located at 55-59 Donegall Street. At 11.58 a.m. a 100 pounds (45 kg) gelignite bomb exploded inside a green Ford Cortina parked in the street outside the offices of the News Letter, [1] shaking the city centre with the force of its blast, and instantly killing the two RUC constables, Ernest McAllister (31) and Bernard O'Neill (36), who had ...
Belfast City Centre is the central business district of Belfast, Northern Ireland.. The city centre was originally centred on the Donegall Street area. Donegall Street is now mainly a business area, but with expanding residential and entertainment development as part of the Cathedral Quarter scheme - St. Anne's, Belfast's Anglican cathedral is located here.
This included young mother Philomena Hanna, who was shot dead at the chemist where she worked on the Springfield Road, and 18-year-old Gerard O'Hara, who was shot dead in front of his mother at his home in the New Lodge. The West Belfast UDA also launched a gun attack on the Dockers club in the Sailortown area of Belfast, wounding three Catholics.
Sir Gordon Smith Grieve Beveridge (28 November 1933 – 28 August 1999) was a Scottish chemist. He served as president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1986 to 1997. He was knighted in 1994 for his services to higher education and died in Belfast. [1]