MON. NOVEMBER 2, 1998: Around 600 Orangemen staged a rally in support of the continuing 24-hour picket at Drumcree Church in the Craigavon civic centre in Co Armagh, a venue owned by Craigavon District Council.
TUES. NOVEMBER 3, 1998: The British Minister for Defence announced that two British soldiers of the Scots Guards regiment, James Fisher and Mark Wright, who were convicted of murdering Belfast teenager Peter McBride in September 1992 and released after serving four years of a life sentence would be allowed to continue as serving members of the British army.
SAT./SUN. NOVEMBER 7-8, 1998: The annual Ard-Fheis of Republican Sinn Féin took place in Drogheda, Co Louth. Delegates from all 32 Counties attended and heard the President of Republican Sinn Féin, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, deliver his keynote address to the Ard-Fheis on Sunday, November 8 at 2pm.
SUN. NOVEMBER 8, 1998: In a co-ordinated swoop at the end of the Republican Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis, 26-County Special Branch arrested three national officers and three Ard-Chomhairle members as well as a delegate to the Ard-Fheis from Co Westmeath and took them to Navan, Kells, Trim and Ashbourne police stations. Those arrested included Des Long, Vice-President, Cllr Joe O'Neill, Bundoran, National Treasurer, Ruairí Óg Ó Brádaigh, Publicity Officer and Editor of SAOIRSE and three Ard Chomhairle members from South Armagh and Fermanagh. Seosamh Ó Maoileoin, a delegate from Tyrellspass, Co Westmeath was also arrested. The homes of all those arrested were raided and in the cases of Joe O'Neill and Seosamh Ó Maoileoin and a great deal of damage was done to them. Mrs Mary O'Neill, wife of Councillor O'Neill, who was with her husband when their car was stopped between Drogheda and Collon, Co Louth, was manhandled by police and she was marked on the body as a result.
MON. NOVEMBER 9, 1998: The homes of three Ard Chomhairle members arrested following the Republican Sinn Féin arrest and held in Co Meath were raided by the RUC in Fermanagh and South Armagh.
TUES. NOVEMBER 10, 1998: All seven Ard-Fheis delegates were released without charge. Materials relating to the Ard-Fheis as well as personal material was not returned.
The British royal consort, the Duke of Edinburgh, was received by the Dublin administration as part of a so-called "official" visit.
Nationalist residents in the Broadway area of west Belfast had their homes attacked by a loyalist gang who smashed the windows in an entire row of houses. The three-man gang used an engineers hammer to smash through double-glaze windows and chanted sectarian slogans "Fenian bastards", "LVF" and "Red Hand Defenders". Local residents chased them back into the loyalist Village area.
THURS. NOVEMBER 13, 1998: The Donegal Celtic soccer club, which had voted at a special meeting to play a match against the RUC soccer club, pulled out of the fixture following intimidation by the Provisionals.
WED. NOVEMBER 18, 1998: Orangemen staged a pro-Drumcree parade from Portadown town centre sanctioned by Britain's Parades Commission and passed through neighbourhoods where nationalists have been subjected to an ongoing series of intimidation for the past six months. The Grand Lodge of Ireland has also applied for a mass demonstration at Drumcree on December 19.
Figures published by the RUC for the 1998 Drumcree crisis period from July 4 to July 14 show that more than 140 houses were damaged in attacks, along with 165 business premises including stores. The number of vehicles damaged was put at 467 and the number of vehicles hijacked 178. In the same ten-day period 632 petrol bombs were thrown and a further 2,250 devices were recovered by the RUC in searches of loyalist areas. There were 615 attacks on British Crown Forces leaving 76 RUC men injured. These loyalist attacks included 24 shooting incidents and 45 blast bomb attacks. Damage was estimated at £3 million.
Republican Sinn Féin held a press conference at which photographs and details of the destruction wreaked on the home of Seosamh Ó Maoileon in Tyrellspass and Cllr Joe O'Neill, Bundoran were given.
THURS. NOVEMBER 19, 1998: A report from the UN Committee Against Torture on the Six Counties called for a ban on plastic bullets, the closure of Castlereagh and other interrogation centres and the "reconstruction" of the RUC.
British legislation incorporating the terms of the Stormont Agreement gained royal assent and went into the statute books.
FRI. NOVEMBER 20, 1998: Around 300 loyalists marched up to RUC lines in Portadown carrying placards amidst in the nationalist community that they would try to force their way down the Garvaghy Road in the coming weeks.
SUN. NOVEMBER 22, 1998: A joint British Army/Colonial police (RUC) patrol launched an attack on six patrons of a bar in Silverbridge, South Armagh pub. The Royal Marines cocked their guns, an RUC man cocked his weapon and fired a shot into the air before firing another shot into the group.
A riot broke out in Lurgan, Co Armagh following an RUC operation in the nationalist Kilwilkie estate. The RUC fired a number of plastic bullets when a crowd gathered after they searched a car looking for a suspect device which turned out to be a hoax.
MON. NOVEMBER 23, 1998: Martin Duffy (29), from Lurgan, Co Armagh was charged at a special court in Craigavon, with possessing an AK45 rifle and two magazines on November 19. He was further charged with membership of the Continuity IRA between June 10 and November 22.
THURS. NOVEMBER 26, 1998: Republican Sinn Féin held a picket outside Leinster House in Dublin while British Prime Minister Tony Blair was addressing the 26-County assembly.
A group of eight heavily-armed men calling themselves the Orange Volunteers staged a show of strength for a television crew at a secret location. They claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on nationalist businesses and bars a month ago and threatened to launch a new murder campaign against nationalists because they were furious at the inept handling by politicians of the "so-called peace process and the deplorable situation at Drumcree".
FRI. NOVEMBER 27, 1998: The head of the new British inquiry into Bloody Sunday, Lord Saville, announced that British soldiers testifying to the tribunal will not be prosecuted on the basis of any evidence they give to the new investigation.
MON. NOVEMBER 30, 1998:
The homes of two nationalist families in Tubergill Gardens in Antrim town were damaged in firebomb attacks.
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