WED. JUNE 3, 1998: A nationalist couple and their three children fled their home of 14 years in the Greymount Estate in north Belfast after a number of attacks, including their car being burned out and threats, conveyed by the RUC, from loyalist death squads.
THURS. JUNE 4, 1998: British army technical experts carried out a controlled explosion on a Renault car abandoned at Duncairn Parade in the New Lodge area of Belfast. It was found to be a hoax. Several calls were made to the RUC claiming that Continuity IRA had planted a bomb.
FRI. JUNE 5, 1998: Two nationalist teenagers were attacked and viciously beaten, sustaining head and facial injuries, by two carloads of loyalists at a filling station on the upper Lisburn Road, in the Finaghy area of Belfast.
SUN. JUNE 7, 1998: The Designer Discounts clothing shop on Royal Avenue in Belfast was extensively damaged following a fire caused by an incendiary bomb.
Several houses at Rosevale Street in north Belfast were badly damaged after loyalists attacked them with a barrage of missiles. Some of the houses had holes punched in their roofs and others had windows broken. Loyalists from across the peaceline climbed onto the top of some houses and started flinging missiles. Margaret O'Neill, whose house was attacked, said that the experience had been "absolutely terrifying . . . These attacks go on from May to August. But it has been worse this year than previous years."
MON. JUNE 8, 1998: The Maghera Orange Hall at Corrigs Road, outside Newcastle, Co Down was extensively damaged when flammable liquid was poured inside the hall.
WED. JUNE 10, 1998: A nationalist family were forced to flee after their home in the Cairngorm Drive area of the loyalist Craigyhill estate in Larne, Co Antrim was subjected to an arson attack. The family had to escape through the window of the ground floor flat, dressed only in their night clothes and with their eight-month old baby wrapped in a blanket. The twenty-three-year old man said that he had received a letter about two months ago, purporting to be from the LVF, warning him to get out of the estate and that windows had been broken in six attacks since he had moved in 11 months ago.
THURS. JUNE 11, 1998: A member of the Provisionals' political organisation claimed that a lone gunman fired two or three shots at him as he went to work along an alleyway at Friendly Street in the Markets area of Belfast.
SAT. JUNE 13, 1998: Rosemount RUC barracks on the Creggan Road in Derry city came under a sustained arson and petrol bomb attack when a Peugeot car which was used to ram the barracks was set alight. A number of petrol bombs were thrown into the compound. No one was injured but a police car was damaged.
SUN. JUNE 14, 1998: Republican Sinn Féin held its annual commemoration at the grave of the Founder of Irish Republicanism, Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown, Co Kildare.
THURS. JUNE 18, 1998: The tribunal of inquiry set up by the British government to re-investigate the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry by the Parachute regiment of the British army delayed the start of the formal hearing of evidence until February 1999.
TUES. JUNE 23, 1998: An explosion blew a large crater in the Newry to Forkhill Road and shattered windows in the Tree Steps bar in Dromintee, Co Armagh.
WED. JUNE 24, 1998: A 2001lb car bomb exploded close to the heavily-fortified RUC barracks in Newtownhamilton, Co Armagh, causing widespread damage. Two phone calls gave warning of the bomb, one claimed that the INLA was responsible.
THURS. JUNE 25, 1998: Elections to the new Stormont assembly took place in the Six Occupied Counties. The results were: UUP, 28 seats, SDLP, 24; DUP, 20; Provisionals, 18; Alliance , 6; UKUP, 5; PUP, 2; Women's Coalition, 2; and other unionists, 3.
SAT. JUNE 27, 1998: Hundreds of RUC and British Crown Forces poured into the Springfield Road area to keep nationalist protesters back from an Orange Order parade as it passed through the nationalist area. Hand-to-hand fighting broke out between residents and the RUC's riot squad as the parade passed close to the nationalist protest.
SUN. JUNE 28, 1998: The home of Republican Sinn Féin Ulster Executive chairperson Michael Donnelly in Derry was attacked by four masked men armed with handguns and iron bars who claimed to be "IRA Provisionals". Michael Donnelly received serious injuries to his leg and upper body and his ten-year-old daughter was also hospitalised.
MON. JUNE 29, 1998: After a day of searches by British armed forces in the nationalist Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan, Co Armagh and in Victoria Street, in which four lbs of Semtex was found in the bunker of a house at Ennis Close, nationalist youths clashed with Crown Forces, firing petrol bombs at them. Eight improvised detonators and a magazine containing 29 rounds of ammunition were also found.
The British government-appointed Parades Commission announced that they had banned the Orange parade from going down the Garvaghy Road on July 5.
Nationalist homes in the Gortnasaor area of Dungannon, Co Tyrone were attacked by around 20 masked youths with stones and bricks following the decision of the Parades Commission to re-route the Orange parade away from the Garvaghy Road.
TUES. JUNE 30, 1998:
Nationalist homes in the Ardmoulin Close area of Belfast were stoned by loyalists youths from across the peaceline.
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