November 1984: Killing of civilian Sinn Féin member William McLaughlin. He was shot dead on Church Road, Newtownabbey; the same place where Joseph Craven was killed the year before. [38] A soldier of the 1st Royal Scots is seriously hurt after another soldier had a negligent discharge whilst in their base at Paisley Park. December 1983: Killing of Irish National Liberation Army member Joseph Craven. He was shot from a passing motorbike on Church Road, Newtownabbey. [36] Saint Joseph’s school on Raglan Street was stormed by the army, after they came under fire. 28 men were arrested and a large quantity of explosives was found. A Bren gun and four magazines were found during a house search on the Lisburn Road. A 17 year old youth from the New Barnsley area began a 4 month sentence for possessing a deadly weapon. The weapon was a catapult which he had been using to fire marbles and ball bearings at Catholics.

The Ulster Defence Regiment is officially raised. Rioting between Catholics and Protestants on the Ballymurphy estate. 25 Soldiers of the Royal Scots are injured keeping the two sides apart. Troops from the Light Infantry are called in but not required that night. Two RUC officers are killed by an IRA booby trap near Crossmaglen, County Armagh. This brings the total of RUC killed since 1956 to nine. IRA row over who planted bombs. Official and Provisional Ira members issue statement each crediting themselves for recent bomb blasts in Belfast. A gunman opens fire on a Protestant crowd near the Crumlin road; a man is wounded in the leg. Two bombs explode in Belfast. A fireworks ban is to be made permanent.The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Snugville Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT13 1ND is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2021. A 46 year old man is shot trying to foil an armed raid on the Royal Naval Club in Belfast, he is not seriously hurt. This is done to preserve the anonymity of the people in that area, as some postcodes cover a very small area, sometimes a single building.

The Reverend Ian Paisley raises objections about the Bravery awards made to Soldiers who served on the Shankill last October. a b c d e f g Malcolm Sutton’s Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland: 1975. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Two Protestants and one Pira are killed, two Protestants die later of their wounds, and several of both sides are wounded. The Army had in Belfast one spare Platoon available that night, and they were unable to battle their way through rioting Protestants to reach the area. The IRA was now seen as the Catholics Defenders, as many Catholics thought the Army had deliberately not appeared. 30 children are evacuated from the Crumlin road area. Caddell ’ s Entry, Belfast, shown on 1791Belfast map as running between Castle Place and Rosemary Street Belfast Three bottles of mercury used in time bombs are found in the Falls road area. Three people were killed not five in the weekend rioting says the RUC. Crumlin Road Jail is seriously overcrowded due to the arrests over the weekend. Bus fares are to go up due to the troubles. Ian Paisley says the arms finds on the Falls Road stopped an IRA attempt to burn down the Shankill.

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Four men fired shots over the grave of a youth, who had driven into an Army lorry in a stolen car. An Army Bomb disposal Officer escaped injury after a second bomb failed to go off, he had been investigating an explosion in County Down. Six men appear in court, over a plot to burn down a factory producing CS gas in Dorking, England.