In a phone call to the Irish News, a group calling itself The Irish Volunteers admitted it placed the device at Carnagh Orange hall in Keady. The van had its roof cut back to allow the mortars to be fired. Chief Inspector Sam Cordner said the attack had "stark similarities" to the 1998 Omagh atrocity. During follow-up searches police recovered a sub-machine gun, a hand gun and ammunition from a vehicle belonging to Daniel Turnbull. Video, Mixed-reality Mario Karts race around the home, Could blood plasma help treat coronavirus? signs an order to set the date for an abortion referendum. The man was about to take his 12-year-old daughter to school. 27 August – First live television from the European continent, using BBC outside broadcast equipment. Police said it was a miracle no-one was killed. The remains of an exploded pipe bomb were found in the grounds of a west Belfast police station on 22 July. Financially, the UK and the Irish Republic are now intertwined as never before. A 21-year-old woman was charged with having a gun and ammunition with intent to endanger life on 5 December. An elderly man walking near the Army base at the time of the explosion is treated in hospital for minor injuries, but the bomb causes little damage. Dissident republican group, Óglaigh na hÉireann, said they were responsible. A booby trap partially exploded under the car of a former policeman in Cookstown, County Tyrone, on 10 August. Police said they believe the bomb was intended to kill officers and that those who had left it showed a "callous disregard for the safety of the community and police officers". He is a former Galway university lecturer and published poet who has dedicated his four-decade political career to championing Irish culture and left-wing causes worldwide. A Scottish soldier found a bomb inside his car outside his girlfriend's house in the Ligoniel area of north Belfast. Turnout is 64.51%, and the result is just short of two-thirds in favour of ending the country's ban on abortion: 66.4% yes to 33.6% no. It says it's "particularly concerned at the criminalization of abortion, including in the cases of rape and incest and of risk to the health of a pregnant woman; the lack of legal and procedural clarity on what constitutes a real substantive risk to the life, as opposed to the health, of the pregnant woman; and the discriminatory impact on women who cannot afford to obtain an abortion abroad or access to the necessary information". Rose Lynch told police she "executed" David Darcy in November of 2011. Three men were subsequently charged over paramilitary displays at his funeral. The envelope, addressed to Chief Inspector Andy Lemon, was found to contain a small bomb. Abortion in Ireland: divorcing Church from State? He said that the "recklessness of their attacks is beyond measure". The Irish army carried out a controlled explosion at a site in Hackballscross. Philip O'Donnell, of Baldrick Crescent, pleaded guilty to causing an explosion likely to endanger life. 2014 October - The first post-bailout budget introduces tax cuts, and - following criticism from the US and EU - ends a loophole that allowed foreign multinationals to pay very low tax in other countries. On 16 October police said a "military-style hand grenade" was thrown at a patrol in Belfast as officers responded to reports of anti-social behaviour. 2011 May - Queen Elizabeth pays official visit to Ireland, first by British monarch since independence. Four men who were in a car in a which a gun was found are jailed. The Irish Independent said the Continuity IRA planned to shoot the soldier when he returned to County Limerick for his Christmas holidays. On 27 April police found a number of guns and ammunition during an operation at Ardglen Place in north Belfast. On the same night, shots were fired during an undercover police operation in the County Fermanagh village of Garrison, in what police described as an attempt to kill a trainee PSNI officer. Prior to the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, the island was ruled through a system of small kingdoms. Police say the device, which failed to explode, was thrown at officers near Pottingers Quay. Police said the device had been an attempt to target police officers but that it could have killed or seriously injured anyone in the vicinity. The two devices were discovered in the Highmoor Road area of the city. Police had said they believed "violent dissident republicans" were behind the attack. In the Republic, three men from Northern Ireland were jailed for IRA membership on 15 December. Hours after the attack, a wheelie bin was set alight next to the house. The device, which police described as more intricate than a pipe bomb, was reportedly discovered under a car in Culmore in the city. On 30 January two men arrested in Galway after police found guns and explosives were charged at a court in Dublin. The attack followed a similar one the previous night, when a man was shot in the legs close to a benefits office on the Falls Road. ICYMI: The puppy born green and other curiosities. A bomb in a hijacked taxi exploded outside Palace Barracks in Holywood, on Monday 12 April - the day policing and justice powers were transferred to Northern Ireland. Two of the injured men were shot in the body, the other in the head. The New IRA says it was behind the letter bombs, according to the Irish News. Sharon Rafferty, 39, of Cabhan Aluinn, Pomeroy, was sentenced to four years in jail and four on licence. Conor Murphy, then a Sinn Féin MP and minister in Northern Ireland's devolved administration, blamed dissident republicans for an arson attack on his home in south Armagh. On 12 November, a new paramilitary group calling itself "the IRA" claimed responsibility for the murder. .css-gw44ni-IconContainer{display:inline-block;height:1em;width:1em;vertical-align:-0.125em;margin-right:0.25em;}playDr Fauci: Vaccine result could come by December. A 500lb bomb was left in a van at an underpass on the main Belfast to Dublin Road in Newry. 2016 May - Months of political deadlock are finally broken after Fine Gael reaches an accommodation with Fianna Fáil, allowing Enda Kenny to form a minority government. The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recommends a referendum on abortion, saying it is concerned at Ireland's "highly restrictive legislation" and calls for a referendum to repeal Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution. McCaugherty was found guilty of attempting to import weapons and explosives. Irish police say Vinnie Ryan was also a well-known dissident republican, but they say they are not linking his murder to the gangland feud that killed David Byrne and Eddie Hutch. A gun attack on a 16-year-old boy in west Belfast on 16 February was "child abuse," a senior police officer said. Five men were arrested after police stopped three cars near Omeath in County Louth on 10 July. It follows the discovery of what police described as a "substantial amount" of machine guns and rifles in a vehicle in Keady, south Armagh. On the night of 29 May, a masked man threw what police have described as a "firebomb" into the reception area of the Everglades Hotel, in the Prehen area of Londonderry. The packages were sent to offices in Oxford, Slough, Kent, Brighton, Hampshire and Berkshire. 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No government since then has enacted legislation to give medical practitioners legal certainty as to when terminations can be carried out. 1998 - Good Friday Agreement approved by voters in Republic and Northern Ireland, establishing cross-community power-sharing assembly in North and ending Troubles. 1992 - Irish voters approve loosening of the abortion law. 2008 June - Voters reject EU's Lisbon Treaty in a referendum. Mark McGuigan was sentenced to 12 years, Daniel John Turnbull to nine years, Martin McLoone to eight years and Darryn Patrick McCallion to seven years. A car bomb was defused outside Newtownhamilton police station in south Armagh on Tuesday 13 April. She is later awarded compensation by the Irish government - thought to be the first time this had happened. The Catholic Bishop of Derry condemns a death threat from dissident republicans against a Protestant man who works in the city's Creggan estate. The weapon was recovered during a security alert on the Barnfield Road in Lisburn following a police investigation into dissident republican activity. 2015 - The UN calls for another referendum. The weapons that were discovered are believed to belong to the group known to as the New IRA. The alleged CIRA spokesman claimed to the BBC that its members had shot dead 33-year-old David Byrne because he had been involved in the killing of Real IRA leader Alan Ryan in Dublin in 2012. Leading Real IRA man Alan Ryan, 32, was shot dead in the Clongriffin area of Dublin on 3 September. The alert in the Sloan Street area closed two schools, and caused widespread disruption in the County Armagh town. A gun and ammunition are found by police investigating dissident republican activity in Cookstown, County Tyrone on 10 June. Two men later appeared in court over the trouble. A bomb, containing 60kgs (132lbs) of home-made explosives, partially explodes inside a car in Belfast city centre on 24 November. In mid-February, The Sunday Times newspaper alleges that a CIRA paramilitary from Northern Ireland is believed to have been among the six gunmen involved in the hotel shooting at the boxing weigh-in. Earlier that day, an under-car bobby-trap bomb was made safe after being found on Blacks Road in west Belfast. 2013 February - The European Central Bank approves a deal to liquidate the former Anglo Irish Bank, which was nationalised in January 2009. Bomb disposal experts made the device safe after it was discovered at Strabane Golf Club on 31 March. Police foil an attempted bomb attack in Strabane's Ballycolman estate on 23 October. The County Antrim man had compiled a library of terrorism documents, including instructions on how to make explosives and tactics used by terrorist organisations. a public body set up to advise the Irish government on a number of ethical and political. responsibility for a bomb under a police officer's car at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast. Petrol bombs and stones are thrown at police vehicles during an illegal dissident republican parade in Londonderry on 2 April. On 23 November, police seize bomb-making components and ammunition during searches at Broom Close in Twinbrook and Glenwood Walk, Poleglass, in west Belfast. Two bombs found close to an Army Reserve centre in Londonderry were left about 20 metres from nearby homes. Three men and a woman admit charges over a dissident republican training camp in County Tyrone. The dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann claimed responsibility for the shooting shortly after it took place.