MON. OCTOBER 1, 2001: 9.00am. A group of children from the Little Flower Girls School and St Patrick's Boys School, some of them as young as 11 years, were attacked by a crowd of loyalists as they waited for a school bus in Duncairn Gardens.
The crowd of men who came from the loyalist Tiger Bay area attacked the children with a garden spade, batons, poles, broken bottles and bricks. The terrified children ran for their lives and a number of them were injured.
The children of Holy Cross with their parents gathered to walk up the Ardoyne Road to Holy Cross school. As they walked through the RUC and Brit lines in the rain they were once again faced with foul-mouthed loyalist bigots , blowing airhorns and whistles. The children and their parents were also spat on. The same was repeated as the parents returned back down the road.
The parents of the Holy Cross children gathered at 2.45pm to pick up their children and walked up the Ardoyne Road through the riot-clad RUC and Brit lines. As they did so loyalist bigots once again blew airhorns and whistles, used their foul mouths not only to shout their dirty talk but also to spit on the parents. But even as bad as this was it wasn't the worst thing the people had in mind.
As the parents returned back down the Ardoyne Road, the loyalists blew their airhorns, whistles, used their dirty talk, spat, got close enough to hit people and their dirt still wasn't finished. They then used balloons filled with urine to throw at the children and their parents.
As parents and other people protested at this, they were pushed about in a heavy-handed manner and at least one person was hit by an RUC baton, as British Occupation Forces once again showed their true colours.
Around 10.00pm loyalist crowds tried to force their way into nationalist houses on Duncairn Gardens. Fighting once again broke out as nationalists came out onto the streets to defend their area. Running battles took place.
The fighting went on for some time and loyalists threw a number of bombs, one big enough to be heard over much of north Belfast. Rioting subsided as the night went on. British Occupation Forces flooded the area. There was also fighting in North Queen Street.
TUE. OCTOBER 2, 2001: 9am. As they have done for the past month, the parents and children of Holy Cross Primary School gathered to walk up the Ardoyne Road to school. Once more they walked through riot-clad British occupation Forces, they were faced again by loyalist bigots, who blew airhorns, whistles, shouted out their hate and dirty talk and once again spat on the parents and children.
This was repeated again in the afternoon as the Holy Cross parents went to pick their children up from the school and returned back down the Ardoyne Road.
THURS. OCTOBER 4, 2001: The high court in Belfast ruled that the British flag was flown on public buildings in the Six Occupied Counties “because it was the proper emblem to reflect the constitutional position within the UK”. The Provisionals had taken legal action against a decision by Peter Mandelson to fly the British flag on 17 designated days in each year.
SAT. OCTOBER 6, 2001: UDA/UFF staged a mass show of strength in Tigers Bay, north Belfast. Thousands march. A number wearing paramilitary uniforms. At one stage paper and news reporters were told to leave by UDA members.
SUN. OCTOBER 7, 2001: 8pm. Loyalist gunmen, believed to be UDA/UFF, carried out a gun attack in Belfast city centre, firing a number of shots into Lavery’s Bar, Bradbury Place. No-one was injured in the gun attack.
Reports that yet another nationalist was beaten and escaped an abduction attempt has left a feeling of fear over nationalist areas.
As the man walked up the Cliftonville Road, north Belfast a car pulled up. Two men got out and beat the man with hammers and tried to pull him into the car. He escaped with his life after a driver of a passing car went to his aid. He suffered a number of injuries.
In a matter of just a few weeks loyalists have made attempts to abduct three people, two within 48 hours.
The US and British governments launched military attacks on Afghanistan.
The home of a prison officer was targeted in an arson attack in Portadown, Co Armagh.
In Co Derry, Michael Davitt’s GAA club in Swatragh was the subject of a pipe bomb attack. The bomb was found by a young boy and defused.
MON. OCTOBER 8, 2001: There have been claims by loyalists that a number of pensioners in the Glenbryn area received threatening letters from a group called the Catholic Reaction Force.
The letters which only had street names and no numbers all went to pensioners. At a time when loyalism is being seen for what it is these letters were useful for the loyalists. Claims that a group calling itself CRF sent the letters were dismissed by Republican Sinn Féin in north Belfast and nationalists as a loyalist dirty tricks to discredit those parents and children of Holy Cross who have gone through so much.
The thought of most people was the people of Glenbryn should look close to home for the letter-writers.
TUES. OCTOBER 9, 2001: Over a dozen families were evacuated from their homes in the Creggan area of Derry city when a suspicious device was outside the home of SDLP Councillor Clifford.
WED. OCTOBER 10, 2001: Members of a soccer team from the Christian Brothers Secondary School in West Belfast were stoned by loyalists as they returned from a match in Dundonald on the outskirts of East Belfast against Dundonald High School. As they approached a road bridge near the Ballybean estate, a group of about 20 people, including some pupils from Dundonald High and young adults, let fly at the bus with stones and rocks. None of the pupils were injured in the attack.
THURS. OCTOBER 11, 2001: Just after the children got out of school and most people in the area had gone home with their children; not far from the Ardoyne Road on the Crumlin Road about 3.30pm a number of loyalist men from Twaddell Ave/Woodvale area attacked a nationalist youth. The men set upon the youth, beating him as they tried to take him to the Woodvale area. As women from Ardoyne went to the youth’s aid the RUC, who stood by as the youth was being beaten, told the women if they didn’t get back they would get the same.
The youth from Ardoyne had to be taken to hospital where he was treated for a number of injuries. Crowds of a hundred or so nationalists, on hearing about the attack, went to the Crumlin Road. By now crowds of loyalists had gathered at Woodvale Road/Twaddell Ave as Brit/RUC occupation forces flooded the area. There was a tense stand off.
Around 7.30pm rioting broke out in the lower Shankill (that is run by the C Coy murder gang and drug dealers of the UDA/UFF) after a house raid in the lower Shankill in which gun, bullets, pipe bombs and bomb parts as well as paramilitary uniforms and drugs are found. Loyalists took to the streets, burn cars and attack Brit/RUC occupation forces. Petrol bombs, a pipe bomb and fireworks were used.
Loyalist crowds attacked nationalist houses at Ardoyne Road and Alliance Ave. Up to 150 loyalists came down the Ardoyne Road from the loyalist Glenbryn area around 8pm. As word goes around nationalists from Ardoyne and the Old Park make their way to the area, driving the loyalists back up the road to Glenbryn.
Around 10.30pm loyalist gunmen opened up on nationalists at Limestone Road. A pipe bomb is also thrown into the nationalist North Queen Street by loyalist bombers. Trouble now in a number of areas in north Belfast. Crowds of people gathered in a number of places. Tension very high through the night.
In the early hours of Thursday morning a nationalist, Liam Shannon, survived an attack by loyalist when he was walking with his friend on the Westlink in west Belfast. The loyalists beat him with hammers and a sledge hammers and tried to pull the man into a car. After the man escaped the car drove off into the loyalist Village area. The men in the car had also used knives to attack their victim. Mr Shannon suffered a number of injuries.
FRI. OCTOBER 12, 2001: Brit Secretary of State for the Six Occupied Counties, John Reid declared the UDA/UFF, LVF cease-fires over. Nationalist in Belfast treat it as old, very old, news but question why the UVF attacks on nationalists have not been highlighted.
Philomena Flood whose seven-year-old daughter goes to Holy Cross primary school and who is a member of the Ardoyne Right to Education Group is forced to leave her home after threats from the RHD, a cover name for all the loyalist groupings.
11.30pm. Loyalists attacked nationalist homes on the Westland Road, north Belfast. A number of windows were broken. The RUC claim fireworks were used in the attack. Locals claim these fireworks being used are doctored. One big firework is put into a metal casing with other fireworks and bits of metal such as nuts. This is sealed and then nails are taped round it making it into a bomb which causes damage and could kill. Many of these bombs have been used against nationalists. There was also trouble in a number of other areas.
FRI. OCTOBER 12, 2001: British supremo in the Six Counties, John Reid, declared that the UDA/UFF and LVF loyalist death squad ceasefires were over.
SAT. OCTOBER 13, 2001: A Lurgan taxi-driver was responding to a bogus call in the loyalist Mourneview estate at 3am when a pipe bomb was thrown at his car. The driver says he arrived at the pickup address and noticed the house in darkness. He radioed his base to say he was leaving when he noticed three masked men coming around the corner. The driver was accelerating away when one of the trio threw an object at the car, which exploded and caused a loud explosion. The man was badly shaken by the incident.
SUN. OCTOBER 14, 2001: About 4am in the small hours of Sunday morning loyalists attack nationalist homes on the Limestone Road. As nationalists came out to defend their homes a loyalist gunman fires up to five shots at the nationalist crowd. There were no hits. The fighting subsided after some time.
About 7.30pm loyalists once again attacked nationalist homes on the Limestone Road. Fighting takes place for some time as nationalist street fighters and loyalist rioters size up to each other. The fighting subsided as Brit/RUC occupation forces flooded the area. Fighting also breaks out at North Queen Street.
The Dublin administration re-interred Kevin Barry and nine of his comrades in Glasnevin Cemetery.
SAT. & SUN. OCTOBER 13 & 14, 2001: The Republican Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis took place in Dublin.
MON. OCTOBER 15, 2001: Trouble in a number of places. Loyalists attacked nationalist homes at Limestone Road, Newington Street. Bottles, bricks and fireworks were used. After constant attacks one family living in Newington Ave say they have had enough. Bríd Burns said she was thinking of leaving her home after a blast bomb thrown by loyalists pierced an oil tank at the back of her home, and the back window was broken.
Lavery’s Bar that had been shot up in a UDA gun attack early in the week had closed for a number of days fearing a UDA/UFF backlash after the loyalist ceasefire was declared over. The Bradbury Place premises re-opened on Monday afternoon.
Just after 10.10pm two pipe or blast bombs were thrown at a nationalist home. The bombs went off and caused damage to the house. Another house in the same street in Newington Street was targeted but the bomb didn’t go off. Stones, bricks, bottles, hammers, knives, cross-bows, pipe/petrol/blast bombs and guns used against nationalists
TUES. OCTOBER 16, 2001: About 5.30pm a 13 year old Catholic, Pearse Quinn out walking his dog was grabbed by a man who tried to pull him into a waiting car on the Old Park Road. The boy only escaped after a struggle. Fears grew that this was yet another abduction attempt by loyalists, the fourth in a matter of weeks. At 9pm fighting broke out at Whitewell Road, Serpentine Road and White City. Loyalist rioters attacked nationalist homes on interfaces in north Belfast. Nationalist street fighters pushed the loyalists back as Brit/RUC occupation forces flooded the area. Around 9.45pm two pipe bombs were thrown on Halliday’s Road over the so-called peace line at nationalists.
An explosive device was found by the RUC during a search on the Glenamass Road, Sixmilecross, Co Tyrone. Two people were arrested.
WED. OCTOBER 17, 2001: 9am. Day 38 of the loyalists unjust protest against the children of Holy Cross primary school. The walk up to school was no different than any other of the days. Through the same lines of Brit/RUC occupation forces to be faced once again with loyalist bigots. They waved their sectarian flags, shouted their foul hate, blew airhorns, whistles and some of them wearing masked of UFF leader Johnny Adair, believed to have played a part in the murder of over 40 nationalists. They stood very close to the parents and children as they walked up the Ardoyne Road.
After picking the children up the parents and children made their way back down the Ardoyne Road. As the children and their parents came back through the RUC/Brit lines a bomb went off causing panic. Children ran crying as men and women tried to find out where the bomb attack took place. A loyalist bomber with no worry at all about the heavy force of Brits and RUC on the ground as well as a helicopter in the air, threw a bomb into the back of a nationalist house at Alliance Ave and just walked off again. It must be pointed out although the Brit/RUC occupation forces were heavy on the ground in the Glenbryn and Alliance Ave area it took them ten minutes to get to the blast scene.
THURS. OCTOBER 18, 2001: 7pm. A loyalist gunman opens fire on a group of nationalist children playing in the Clifton Park Ave. The man, who was wearing a grey top, ran back into a loyalist area off Clifton Park Ave.
A County Down pub was targeted in a pipe bomb attack. The explosion caused minor damage to the pub in Newtownards. The incident happened shortly after midnight at the bar in South Street, which was closed at the time. A vehicle believed to have been used in the attack was later found burned out near Scabo County Park outside Newtownards.
Helen Marie Daly (25) and her husband Steven John Daly (28) were charged at Omagh magistrates court with possession of explosives with intent to endanger life. The charges related to the discovery of a 130lb bomb found in a creamery can in a stone shed near Sixmilecross, Co Tyrone. They were remanded in custody.
SAT. OCTOBER 20, 2001: 2pm. Loyalist rioters attacked nationalist homes at the top of Alliance Avenue and Ardoyne Road. They also ran after children in Alliance Avenue. As people come out of their homes to defend their houses fighting takes place. Loyalist rioters now attack nationalists with bottles, bricks, stones and fireworks. Some of the fireworks are doctored to cause as much damage as possible. As more nationalists rushed to the area fighting takes place. Nationalist street fighters pushed the loyalist rioters back up the Ardoyne Road towards Glenbryn. A number of people were injured and needed hospital treatment. The fighting subsided as Brit/RUC occupation forces flooded the area. At 3.45pm crowds are on the streets on both sides and tension is very high in the area.
SUN. OCTOBER 21, 2001: 2pm. Loyalists attacked nationalist areas at Limestone Road, Newington Street, North Queen Street, New Lodge, Ardoyne Road and Alliance Avenue. As loyalist bombers attacked homes on the Limestone Road and Newington Street and with the fear that loyalists were going to overrun part of the area a nationalist gunman is believed to have opened fire, hitting one person. A number of the loyalist bombs went off. Others didn’t and lay in the street. As Sunday went on so did the fighting, all over Belfast now. These areas were Ardoyne, Clifton Park Ave, Limestone Road, Newington, North Queen Street, New Lodge and Whitewell. Trouble was also going on at Alliance Ave where nationalist homes came under constant attack from the loyalist Alliance Road. Crowds of people were on the streets as hundred of Brit Crown occupation forces patrolled all the areas in full riot gear, armoured cars and Land Rovers. At around 8pm RUC and Brits moved into Newington and raided a number of nationalist homes.
As this was going on a loyalist bomber throws a bomb into a Newington Street hitting a girl of nine in the chest, before the bomb ends up on the ground where it went off, wounding another little girl in the back. Both girls had to be treated in hospital. These children were out playing at their own door. This attack by loyalist bombers was clearly to murder the children and there’s no doubt that the although UDA/UFF carried it out the UVF are also active in many areas. The trouble went on through the night. A loyalist in the Glenbryn area fired into the nationalist Ardoyne using a cross-bow. The arrow was later found in a garden on the Ardoyne Road. There was also reports that two shots were fired on the Old Park Road.
Patrick Maher, the last of the Forgotten Ten, was reburied in the family plot in Ballylanders, Co Limerick.
MON. OCTOBER 22, 2001: Gerry Adams stated that they had called on the Provisionals’ military wing to “make a ground-breaking move on the arms issue” in order to save the crumbling Stormont Agreement.
TUES. OCTOBER 23, 2001: Trouble went on at Alliance Ave/Ardoyne Road from early in the night to well after 12pm. A family of six were lucky not be hurt when a loyalist bomb goes off at the front door of their home in Deerpark Road. The Deer Park Road cuts through from the Old Park Road through Alliance Ave and runs along the bottom of Alliance Road and Glenbryn area. The Deer Park has both Catholics and Protestants living there. A number of nationalist houses have been attacked by loyalist bombers since June. The attack took place around 9pm.
Gen John de Chastelain, head of IICD, the so-called international decommissioning body confirmed that it had witnessed the Provisionals’ military wing put a “significant” quantity of arms “beyond use”. It said that the material included arms, ammunition and explosives. The Provisionals confirmed the move and described its decision as an “unprecedented” decision to save the peace process and a demonstration to others of its genuine intentions.
WED. OCTOBER 24, 2001: 9am. Children and parents of Holy Cross primary school gathered to walk up the Ardoyne Road. The loyalists held up posters that read “Repub-licanism has surrendered”, a reference to the dissident Provisional grouping’s decommissioning of Republican arms (an illegal action) and contrary to Republican ideals.
3.30pm. The loyalists had another plan for the afternoon; to block a number of roads. In doing so they blocked three Catholic schools.
Our Lady of Mercy in the loyalist Ballysillan area was blocked. The children were unable to get home because loyalists from Glenbryn blocked the Crumlin Road. The children’s buses were turned back and were attacked by loyalists on the Ballysillan Road.
The Convent of Mercy Primary school and St Gabriel’s secondary school were also blocked by the loyalists who had by then had blocked the Crumlin Road at each end.
As mothers and fathers of the school children tried to get to the schools RUC in riot gear blocked their way. Some of the parents managed to break through and were attacked by the loyalists. As more nationalists broke through RUC lines the RUC now pushed the loyalists back into a side street, more for their own good than that of the nationalists.
Crowds of nationalists waited for over an hour for the children. When the children got down to Ardoyne and safety the nationalists started to move down the Crumlin Road. As they did so crowds of loyalists from Twaddell Ave and Woodvale Road attacked people at the Ardoyne shops, Crumlin Road. On seeing this the nationalist crowd went down the road to confront the loyalists. The loyalists pulled back to the Twaddell Ave. By now Brit and RUC occupation forces had flooded the area and nationalist youths used bricks, stones and bottles to attack them.
As this was going on, parents with four children of the Convent of Mercy primary school were attacked by a loyalist crowd. On seeing this nationalists ran back up the road again. Half-way up they were confronted by the RUC in full riot gear with drawn batons and Land Rovers pulled across the road.
A number of Republican Sinn Féin members from north Belfast were with the first people to get up the road. As RUC men tried to stop them they pushed on to be met by the loyalist crowd who, on seeing the nationalists, pulled back. Again riot clad RUC men waving batons attacked the nationalists. One old man is set upon by two RUC men. On seeing this Seosamh Ó Leogain (RSF) went to the man’s aid, managing to get the man away from the RUC attackers. As the RSF man defended the man and other members of the nationalist community, as all RSF members have been doing since the start of the loyalist pogroms, he was hit by a bit of metal. The metal hadn’t just been picked off the street by the loyalist who threw it; it was machine cut. Many of these have been used by the loyalists. The RSF man suffered injury to his right leg and foot. Another in a long line of injuries suffered by our members since June last.
As the nationalists and our members confronted the RUC a number of Provisionals came up to where the RUC lines were and started to push the nationalists back. On seeing this and the fact that one Ardoyne Provisional tried to move Seosamh Ó Leogain as well, the RSF man confronted the Provos. In a heated confrontation the RSF man told the Provos that not only have they taken away the nationalist communities right to protest but they have taken away their right to defend themselves as well. The Provos told the RSF man that he was out of order. The RSF man pointed out that the only ones who were out of order was the Provisionals.
The Provos then walked away as a number of nationalists joined in the confrontation with the Provos.
As the night fell there was trouble in a number of areas in north Belfast but the worst of it took place at Ardoyne Road and Alliance Ave only to subside in the small hours of Thursday morning. The home of a nationalist family in Newington Street was also attacked.
THURS. OCTOBER 25, 2001: There was a confrontation at the Ardoyne shops where nationalists and loyalists faced each other as Brit and RUC occupation forces stood in full riot gear facing the nationalist side.
A house at Newington Street was attacked by loyalist bombers but the pipe bomb that was thrown didn’t go off. Street lights in Alliance Ave were knocked out by nationalist defenders for cover. At around 11.30pm Brits and RUC occupation forces blocked off the top of Alliance Ave. Again trouble broke out with bricks, bottles, stones and fireworks that had been doctored to cause as much damage as possible.
Helen Marie Daly, from Sixmilecross, Co Tyrone, who had been charged along with her husband Steven on explosive charges was granted bail in the high court in Belfast.
FRI. OCTOBER 26, 2001: As the parents and children once again walked through the Brit and RUC lines the loyalist bigots not only waved their loyalist flags but also tried to attack the children and parents. After eight weeks of these attacks the RUC made one arrest of a loyalist.
Parents gathered at 10am to go up to the school to attend the children’s Halloween Party as they do every year. The loyalist bigots again attacked the parents and another is arrested after hitting an RUC man. The second to be lifted in eight weeks.
At 12am as the parents and children came through the armoured cars and lines of riot clad Brits and RUC to the nationalist Ardoyne they were greeted with crowds of nationalists who had come from other nationalist areas to show their support for the Holy Cross primary school childrens right to walk to school. The children were now off for a week for mid-term break.
Fighting broke out as loyalists once again attacked nationalist homes at Ardoyne Road and Alliance Ave. As the loyalist rioters carried on the attack nationalist came onto the streets to defend themselves, their homes and community. Fighting took place, the nationalist street fighters pushing the loyalist rioters back up the road again towards Glenbryn. Loyalists now use fireworks that have been doctored to cause as much damage as possible.
Nationalists now returned their fire with their own fireworks. Well-aimed rockets send the loyalists running into side streets. Armoured cars and Land Rovers headed to the area. Around 8.30pm riot clad Brits and RUC flood the Ardoyne Road and Alliance Ave. A loyalist bomber threw a blast bomb into the home of a nationalist pensioner at Alliance Ave. The man, who is suffering from ill health, suffered shock but is unhurt: The damage done to his home shows only luck played a part in that.
As people went to the man’s home to see if everyone was all right another blast was heard. This time a member of the Brit Occupation Forces was hit by a bomb thrown by a loyalist in Glenbyrn.
A pipe bomb exploded outside the home of SDLP Councillor Gerard Diver in Sutton Gardens in the Waterside area of Derry city. The explosion blew in the front door of the house and caused extensive damage. No one was injured.
Bomb-making equipment found in the North Queen Street area of north Belfast was believed to be linked to the British-backed loyalist death squad, the UDA/UFF.
SAT. OCTOBER 27, 2001: Around 12.30am a crowd of over 50 ran down the Ardoyne Road towards the nationalist Alliance Ave. The loyalists then tried to attack people in the area. At about this time a number of shots rang out, making the loyalist crowd retreat back up the Ardoyne Road again. Locals say that a nationalist gunman opened fire in defence of the area. This has been confirmed by a number of people who also stated that they fully supported this action.
In a statement the Continuity Irish Republican Army said it would continue to resist British colonial rule in Ireland following the recent act of treason by the Provisionals’ military wing in destroying arms.
SUN. OCTOBER 28, 2001: A blast bomb was found at the front door of a nationalist family living in Cliftondene Crescent, off the Old Park Road. It was believed to have been put there by loyalists in the small hours of Sunday or sometime on Saturday night.
About 12.30. Fighting broke out on the Limestone Road, Hallidays Road as loyalist crowds gathered near the chapel. After a confrontation fighting broke out. A pipe bomb or blast bomb was thrown and one person was injured. After some time the fighting subsided. Report of an injured man on the Limestone Road. Very bad injuries were caused to his face and mouth with most of his mouth believed to have been blown off in the blast. Up to ten pipe or blast bombs have now been thrown by loyalists in a matter of a few hours.
Around 7.30pm. Loyalist crowds from Twaddell Ave/Woodvale Road area made across the Crumlin Road to attack nationalists at the Ardoyne shops. As nationalists defended themselves more people went to the area and pushed the loyalist crowd back across the Crumlin Road again to Twaddell Ave. Loyalist crowds from the Tigers Bay hmoved to North Queen Street and tried to attack nationalist New Lodge. Nationalist went out in defence of the area. Again loyalists threw a number of pipe and blast bombs as the Brit occupation forces flooded the area. The loyalists once again turned on the Crown. They also burned a number of cars.
A nationalist house in Newington Street came under attack from loyalist bombers. The area had been witness that day to one man very badly injured by a loyalist bomb blast, a woman attacked and beaten by loyalists, and countless attacks carried out on nationalist homes.
MON. OCTOBER 29, 2001: Monday night. Reports that a military action had taken place against Brit Crown occupation forces at Woodbourne Barracks gave a lift to many people in north Belfast.
Three men who said they were from the Continuity IRA left a device containing five kilos of explosive on a Belfast bus and told the driver to take it to Woodbourne RUC barracks in west Belfast. The bomb was later detonated in a controlled explosion.
A British soldier in the Royal Irish Regiment was being questioned about the murder of Colin Foy, a 27-year-old nationalist man from Mullaghfad Road in Cooneen, outside Fivemiletown, Co Tyrone. The shooting happened shortly after midnight as the victim, who was from Fivemiletown, was drinking with his brother at the Four Ways Hotel bar in the town’s Main Street. It is understood his assailant had also been drinking in the bar. The victim died after the attack from a number of gunshot wounds.
Charles Folliard (30), a former loyalist prisoner, was shot dead as he left his girlfriend’s house in the nationalist Ballycolman estate in Strabane, Co Tyrone.
TUE. OCTOBER 30, 2001: Tuesday afternoon. Trouble once more broke out on the Limestone when loyalists attacked nationalists in the area. Nationalists once again came onto the streets in defence of themselves, their homes and community. Around 7.45pm a woman living in Newington Street is hurt when a pipe or blast bombs thrown by loyalists went off. The woman suffered wounds to her arms.
WED. OCTOBER 31, 2001: A nationalist taxi-driver was targeted b y a loyalist death squad after answering a call to a house in the loyalist Mourneview estate in Lurgan, Co Armagh. He heard a number of bangs and later found a bullet lodged in the rear seat of his car.
Halloween for the most passed off with only minor trouble in interface areas, nothing like the high level seen in the past number of weeks.
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