The number of people unemployed in the 26 Counties are 296,286 according to the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed.
TUES. JUNE 6, 1995: The British Life Sentence Review Board met at Stormont near Belfast to decide whether to make a recommendation for the early release of Paratrooper Lee Clegg, sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1993 for the September 1990 killing of 18-year-old Belfast teenager Karen Reilly.
WED. JUNE 7, 1995: In an editorial the New York-based Irish American paper, the Irish Voice , supported the campaign to grant a US visa to Republican Sinn Féin President Ruairí Ó Brádaigh.
It was announced that 44 workers at the Sanken Ireland computer disk company in Spiddal, Co Galway are to be laid-off from July 1.
Pretty Polly (Killarney), a manufacturer of ladies tights, announced that it is to close with the loss of 152 jobs.
SUN. JUNE 11, 1995: The annual Republican Sinn Féin commemoration to the grave of Wolfe Tone took place at Bodenstown, Co Kildare.
MON. JUNE 12, 1995: The father of Pearse Jordan, an unarmed Provisional volunteer who was shot dead in an RUC ambush applied to the Belfast High Court to quash four decisions of the coroner conducting the inquest into his son's death.
A 27-year-old man gave evidence in a Belfast court that he was slashed with a knife after a gang of three loyalists, including Philip Blaney (30), who had denied charges of wounding with intent and unlawful wounding, asked him if he was a "Prod or a Taig" in North Street in Belfast city centre in March 1994.
The RUC announced that the Clady permanent Border checkpoint between Counties Donegal and Tyrone will be taken down, the first such military post to be dismantled since the Provisional and British-backed death squad ceasefires of 1994.
Noel Christopher Magee (37), who failed to turn up for his trial on firearms charges on May 21, 1992, was remanded in custody at the Special Criminal Court charged with having two Kalashnikov rifles, a Webley revolver and a quantity of ammunition at Ballintra, Co Donegal on February 5, 1992.
The "emergency" laws imposed in the Six Counties by the British government were renewed in the British House of Commons for another 12 months on June 12 last. The Emergency Provisions and Prevention of Terrorism Acts which include special powers of search and arrest were backed by 286 votes to 190.
TUES. JUNE 13, 1995: Most of the remaining 35 Provisional prisoners in Portlaoise jail in the 26 Counties are "likely" to be freed by Christmas, according to Dublin administration sources quoted by the Irish Times.
WED. JUNE 14, 1995: Petrol bombs were thrown at RUC patrols in nationalist areas of north Belfast and Derry city. RUC landrovers came under attack at the junction of the Antrim and Crumlin Roads in north Belfast and in the Strabane/Old Road area of Derry.
The Campaign for the Right to Truth, which has produced a study, Collusion 1990-1994, of alleged British intelligence involvement with loyalist death squads, called on June 14 for the British government to establish a truth commission and admit colluding with the death squads in the Six Counties.
THURS. JUNE 15, 1995: Robert McCartney (59), an independent unionist supported by the Democratic Unionist Party, won the North Down by-election by almost 3,000 votes, leaving the Ulster Unionist Party and the Alliance Party candidates trailing.
Three men, one of them a British soldier, appeared at Craigavon magistrates court charged with the murder of 17-year-old Lurgan schoolboy Gavin Malcolm on April 8 last year. They are Keith Brown (23), Ashleigh Crescent; Jason Chittick (21), a British army Royal Irish Regiment soldier from Pine Park and William Turkington (17), Monroe Avenue, all Lurgan.
Billy Blair (40), a loyalist prisoner in Maghaberry prison, Co Antrim, committed suicide.
SUN. JUNE 18, 1995: There were scuffles when the RUC prevented a Belfast Orange lodge marching down University Street to Ormeau Road. More than 200 protesters stood at the junction of both roads with banners reading 'Re-route sectarian marches'.
MON. JUNE 19, 1995: Provisional leader Gerry Adams promised that they would "never pull out of the peace process" 48 hours after announcing on June 17 that they would cease their "exploratory" talks with British junior minister Michael Ancram as a protest at Britain's refusal to budge on the decommissioning issue.
Staff members at Dunnes Stores, the biggest retailing outlet in Ireland, began a strike for better working conditions.
There are 129,900 people unemployed in the Six Counties, according to figures supplied by the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed.
TUES. JUNE 20, 1995: An appeal into the conviction of John Anthony Murray, Lenadoon Avenue, Belfast, who was recently released from prison after an eight-year term for falsely imprisoning RUC informer Sandy Lynch, opened at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Greenpeace, the environmental group, forced the British petroleum giant Shell to change its plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig 150 miles off the west coast of Scotland and 340 miles off Donegal.
WED. JUNE 21, 1995: It was revealed that two men, whom he claimed were MI5 agents, attempted to bribe a former Provisional Sinn Féin councillor, Brian McCaffrey from Roslea, Co Fermanagh to spy on six people who were known "not to be in favour of the ceasefire".
Neil Irwin, a soldier of the British army's Royal Irish Regiment pleaded guilty in Belfast's Crown Court to involvement in five murder conspiracies and to aiding loyalist death squads.
THURS. JUNE 22, 1995: John Major resigned as leader of Britain's Conservative Party to challenge opponents at a leadership election to be held on July 4.
Petrol-bombs were thrown at RUC patrols in Belfast on three successive nights last week in nationalist areas of Belfast. On June 21, 22 and 23 RUC Land Rovers were pelted with molotov cocktails in the Twinbrook and Ardoyne areas of west and north Belfast.
FRI. JUNE 23, 1995: Packard Electric, the car components plant in Tallaght, Dublin, laid off 400 of its workforce.
SAT. JUNE 24, 1995: The RUC attacked a group of people protesting at the routing of an Orange parade through a nationalist area of Belfast.
MON. JUNE 26, 1995: The liquidation of Irish Press Newspapers, due to take place on June 28, was halted when the Dublin High Court appointed an examiner.
The mother of Belfast teenager Karen Reilly (17), who was shot dead by Private Lee Clegg in a stolen car in Belfast in 1990, was awarded undisclosed damages in the Belfast High Court.
The RUC fired plastic bullets at a man throwing a petrol bomb during an incident at the junction of Crumlin Road and Brompton Park where a group of between 20 and 30 youth were throwing petrol bombs.
McCarrans meat company in Co Cavan announced that they will lay off 130 workers.
TUES. JUNE 27, 1995: Kevin Taylor, who was charged with fraud in an attempt to discredit John Stalker, who was then heading an inquiry into the 1982 shoot-to-kill policy in the Occupied Six Counties, was forced to settle the case he took against the chief constable of Greater Manchester for £1 million.
WED. JUNE 28, 1995: The extradition of Angelo Fusco, a Belfast man who escaped from Crumlin Road Jail in 1981 was refused because of long lapse of time.
Donna Maguire, the Newry woman who has spent almost six years in various jails in Belgium, Holland and Germany, was sentenced to nine years by a German court and released.
FRI. JUNE 30, 1995: Mildred Fox, a 24-year-old Independent candidate won the Wicklow by-election.
Three Irish people, Patrick Murray from Dublin, Pauline Drumm from Fermanagh and her husband Donncha O'Kane from Co Down were found guilty by a court in Germany of offences relating to the bombing of a British army barracks in Osnabruck, Germany in 1989 and released.
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