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Pages in category "Murder victims from County Antrim" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Upon the death of his mother on 26 October 1835 at Holmwood at Shiplake Row, near Henley, he succeeded as the 4th Viscount Dunluce and the 4th Earl of Antrim, both in the Peerage of Ireland, as his elder brother, Charles Fortescue Kerr, Viscount Dunluce, had died in 1834. On 27 June 1836, his name was legally changed to Hugh Seymour McDonnell ...
Murder in County Antrim. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. B. Murder in Belfast (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Murder in County Antrim"
The Massereene Barracks shooting took place at Massereene Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland. On 7 March 2009, two off-duty British soldiers of the 38 Engineer Regiment were shot dead outside the barracks. Two other soldiers and two civilian delivery men were also shot and wounded during the attack.
Columba McVeigh, a 19-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, disappeared in 1975. The IRA alleges he had confessed to being a British Army agent, instructed to infiltrate the IRA. [16] Brendan Megraw disappeared in 1978. In August 2014 a bog in County Meath was searched for his body, [17] with human remains discovered in September. [18]
9 November: A Protestant civilian was found beaten-to-death in a quarry near Newtownabbey, County Antrim. It is thought he was killed by UVF members as part of a loyalist feud. [223] 27 November: Jackie Mahood, an ex-PUP politician, was shot and wounded at his taxi depot in north Belfast, apparently as part of a loyalist feud. [224]
The county was administered by Antrim County Council from 1899 until the abolition of county councils in Northern Ireland in 1973. [25] The traditional county town is Antrim. More recently, Ballymena was the seat of county government. From 1973 Northern Ireland was split into districts, which were redrawn in 2015. County Antrim is part of the ...
The inquest into her death heard that at least two petrol bombs were thrown through the windows of the Ulsterbus, setting her alight after the vehicle was engulfed in flames. Journalist Sean O'Hagan, who grew up in Armagh and whose father witnessed the incident, 30 years later wrote a piece on her death for the Guardian. [4]