The 21st of July 1972, 50 years ago, was the most intense day of IRA bombings of the Troubles. Two car bombs claimed nine lives in Belfast – one at the Oxford Street bus station in the city ...
The August 1972 murder and secret burial of Joe Lynskey by the IRA made him the first of the “disappeared”, the group of 17 people buried by republican paramilitaries in secret locations.
A Belfast woman was today (Thursday) handed a suspended sentence after she walked into a city centre bar, pulled out an imitation gun and said: “I’m in the IRA”. Karen O’Brien, 52 and of ...