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The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. [6] It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement, signed earlier in the year.
Vauxhall Motors Limited [note 2] is a British [6] car company headquartered in Chalton, Bedfordshire, England.Vauxhall became a subsidiary of PSA Group in 2017, and latterly its successor Stellantis in January 2021, having previously been owned by General Motors since 1925.
The punitive tax on imported cars encouraged a wide range of companies to assemble their cars locally including Fiat, Ford and Renault. [1] From Ireland's entry to the European Union in 1973, the need for locally produced cars to avoid import taxes reduced and since the 1980s, production ended and all cars are now imported.
The British troops in Northern Ireland were equipped with Luchaire 40 mm anti-tank grenades after the assault. [3] In July 1991, the IRA planned a similar attack on a vehicular checkpoint, this time by delivering a 1,000 lb (450 kg) bomb in the trailer of an articulated lorry. The cab unit had been cladded in improvised armour and the ...
General Motors Europe [1] (often abbreviated to GM Europe) was the European subsidiary of the American automaker General Motors ("GM"). The subsidiary was established by GM in 1986 and operated 14 production and assembly facilities in 9 countries, and employed around 54,500 people. [2]
28 August: the INLA claimed responsibility for bomb attacks across Northern Ireland: two proxy car bombs exploded outside the RUC bases in Newry and Downpatrick, a third bomb exploded in a disused factory in Derry (which security forces said was designed to lure them to a booby-trap bomb left in a car) and a fifth and sixth bombs exploded in ...
The Thiepval Barracks bombing was a double car bomb attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 7 October 1996. The bombs exploded inside Thiepval Barracks, the British Army headquarters in Northern Ireland.
Operation Motorman was a large operation carried out by the British Army (HQ Northern Ireland) in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.The operation took place in the early hours of 31 July 1972 with the aim of retaking the "no-go areas" (areas controlled by residents, [1] including Irish republican paramilitaries) that had been established in Belfast and other urban centres.