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In December 1982 they carried out the Droppin Well bombing which killed 17 people including 11 off-duty British soldiers, making it the group's deadliest attack against the British Army. [4] INLA Volunteer Martin McElkerney was sentenced to life for the Divis bombing in 1987, but he was released in 1999 under the Good Friday Agreement. [5]
16 September – 1982 Divis Flats bombing: the INLA detonated a remote-control bomb hidden in a drainpipe as a British patrol passed Cullingtree Walk, Divis Flats, Belfast. Three people were killed: a British soldier, Kevin Waller; and two Catholic children, Stephen Bennett and Kevin Valliday.
The La Mon restaurant bombing was an incendiary bomb attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 17 February 1978 and has been described as one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It took place at the La Mon House hotel and restaurant, near Belfast .
An INLA statement issued from the Republic claimed he was an informer while the Belfast INLA claimed he was killed by British agents. The actual reason was Barkley had angered the INLA chief of staff by committing robberies for personal gain. [33] 2 November: an INLA bomb was discovered under a lorry driven by a concrete firm employee in Derry.
Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles.At least twenty bombs exploded in the space of eighty minutes, most within a half-hour period.
The RUC believed the Real IRA supplied the INLA with semtex commercial explosive which was thought to have been used as a component in making the bomb. [79] INLA members assisted the bombing campaign being carried out by the dissident republican groups the Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) and Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) by ...
The Irish National Liberation Army Belfast Brigade was the main brigade area of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). The other Brigade areas were in Derry which was split between two battalions, the first in Derry City, and the second battalion in south County Londonderry, and County Armagh which was also split into two battalions, a south Armagh and a north Armagh battalion, [5] with ...
Two days after the bombing, as Adair was driving away from his house, he stopped and told a police officer, "I'm away to plan a mass murder". [27] Memorials at 271 Shankill Road, the site of the bombing. In the week following the bombing, the UDA and UVF launched a wave of "revenge attacks", killing 14 civilians. [25]