1985, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched a heavy mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base at Corry Square in Newry...

repeatedly used homemade mortars against targets in Northern Ireland. The most notable occasion was the 1985 Newry mortar attack which killed nine members...

successfully against the extradition warrant issued by Germany. 1985 Newry mortar attack 1994 British Army Lynx shootdown Barrack buster Chronology of Provisional...

fired on the troops, who returned fire. The castle is on the banks of the Newry River, which marks the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic...

bottle of inexpensive white cider. 1985 Newry mortar attack 1994 British Army Lynx shootdown Downing Street mortar attack Improvised artillery in the Syrian...

city centre. Attacks were mostly in England apart from the Osnabrück mortar attack on a British Army base in Germany. The IRA's first attack in Northern...

February – 1985 Newry mortar attack: an IRA mortar attack on the Newry RUC station killed nine officers and injured thirty-seven. 7 December – Attack on Ballygawley...

focused its attacks on the RUC, killing 20 of its members between 1984 and 1986. Nine of these were killed in the February 1985 Newry mortar attack. Three...

him bomb detonators on the morning of Bloody Sunday, with the intent to attack premises in Derry city centre that day. McGuinness rejected the claims as...

police ask the Garda to keep him under surveillance. In 1985 the IRA planned a series of bomb attacks in British tourist destinations, mainly seaside resorts...

mounted several car bomb and mortar attacks. There were also attacks or attempted attacks in Moira, Portadown, Armagh, Newry, Lisburn, Belfast, and Belleek...

Well bombing 1983 Maze Prison escape 1984 Brighton hotel bombing 1985 Newry mortar attack Anglo-Irish Agreement 1987 Loughgall ambush Remembrance Day bombing...

Berry, and injured 34 others. On 28 February 1985 in Newry, nine RUC officers were killed in a mortar attack on the police station. It was planned by the...

February – 1985 Newry mortar attack: the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) killed nine Royal Ulster Constabulary officers in a mortar attack at their...

force sent to Derry. Nationalists held protests at RUC stations in Belfast, Newry, Armagh, Dungannon, Coalisland and Dungiven. Some of these became violent...

March - Heathrow mortar attacks - The IRA fired mortars at Heathrow Airport on the 9, 11 and 13 March. Nobody was injured in the attacks. 9 February - 1996...

conceal themselves from British observation posts. The sniper attack on a checkpoint at Newry killed Constable Brian Woods and was officially reported in...

another major bombing campaign in England. In February 1991 it launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street, official residence and office of the British Prime...

raged between loyalists and Irish nationalists in Belfast, and loyalists attacked the Catholic minority in retaliation for Irish republican activity. Northern...

Dublin and Munster. From 1982 onwards the INLA also established units in Newry, Downpatrick and several rural border areas. The first member of the security...

1985 in Northern Ireland. Secretary of State - Douglas Hurd (until 3 September), Tom King (from 3 September) 28 February - 1985 Newry mortar attack:...

lower presence of 9,000 in 1985. The total climbed again to 10,500 after the intensification of the IRA use of improvised mortars toward the end of the 1980s...

in Newry recounts fatalities during The Troubles in Newry, County Armagh/County Down, Northern Ireland. From 1971-94, 53 people were killed in Newry during...

the Rotunda. Prior to any attack upon civilian targets, a code of conduct was followed in which the attacker or attackers would send an anonymous telephone...

within 24 hours. In March 1975, ten prisoners escaped from the courthouse in Newry while on trial for attempting to escape from Long Kesh. The escapees included...

area outside Newry in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The landmine was detonated remotely when the vehicle passed over it. The attack happened during...

which it was hit by rockets, mortars, and small-arms fire. F/Private Eva Martin was fatally wounded during this attack, the first female UDR soldier...

increased from its lowest ebb of 9,000 men in 1985 to 10,500 by 1992 after an escalation of the IRA's mortar attacks. In South Armagh, in contrast to other brigade...

ambush 1985 - Strabane ambush 1985 - Newry mortar attack 1987 - Loughgall ambush 1988 - Ballygawley bus bombing 1989 - Attack on Derryard checkpoint 1990...

home to Dublin late at night after a performance in Banbridge. Halfway to Newry, their minibus was stopped at what appeared to be a military checkpoint...