MON. SEPTEMBER 4, 1995: Patrick Mayhew, British Supremo in the Occupied Six Counties, announced that he was recommending the use of the Royal Prerogative in order to facilitate the release of the body of IRA Volunteer Tom Williams from the grounds of Crumlin Road jail where he has been buried since 1942.
In a report Amnesty International expressed concern at the number of people killed by the British Crown Forces in the Six Counties between 1969 and 1994. They killed 358 people in that period, many of them civilians and about half were unarmed.
A former member of the Royal Signal Corps of the British army, John Hugh Marsden was sentenced to two life terms for the sectarian murders of two Catholics in May 1994 and with being a member of the British-backed loyalist death squad - the UVF - for which he received five years, and 20 years for possession of a weapon.
TUES. SEPTEMBER 5, 1995: The London/Dublin summit due to take place on September 6 was cancelled by John Bruton.
Two members of the British Crown Forces (Royal Irish Regiment) Gabriel Mackle and Hugh Gibson and a third man Barry James Gamble, a welder from the Tandragee area were accused of causing actual bodily harm to Conrad Wilson in December 1994.
At Craigavon magistrates court, RUC man David Louis Harpur was found guilty of making nuisance telephone calls to a family in Portadown between November 12 and December 29, 1994 and was fined £300 — £200 of which was to go to British Telecom who had monitored the calls.
WED. SEPTEMBER 6, 1995: For the second time an inquest into the shooting dead of three men in west Belfast in 1990 has been postponed due to legal problems and the refusal of the British army to compel the soldiers involved to appear.
The Committee on the Administration of Justice announced that they will hold an independent inquiry into the clashes that took place on the lower Ormeau Road, Belfast on July 12 and August 12, 1995, between residents and British Crown Forces.
At Belfast's Crown court, John James Adair, described by the media as "the mad dog of loyalism" was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for his activities in steering the British backed UDA/UVF loyalist death squad.
The Dublin administration gave the go-ahead for the sale of Irish Steel to the Indian company Ispat International for a nominal price of £1.
THURS SEPTEMBER 7, 1995: Alan Dukes, a former leader of Fine Gael (one of the governing parties in Dublin) told a meeting in Dublin that the "European Union needed a common foreign and security policy".
FRI. SEPTEMBER 8, 1995: The Ulster Unionist Party selected David Trimble as their new leader. The number of people out of work in the 26 Counties is 309,931, according to the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed.
SUN. SEPTEMBER 10, 1995: The RUC tried to prevent GAA followers from carrying the flags of their teams through Newtownhamilton to a football match in Armagh.
Clashes took place in Dunloy, Co Antrim between members of the Orange Order parading through the nationalist town and local people in which an RUC man lost his revolver and several people, including four RUC members were injured.
TUES. SEPTEMBER 12, 1995: A member of the Prince of Wales regiment of the British army was taken to hospital with severe head wounds from Lisanelly British army base, Omagh, Co Tyrone. The RUC claimed no one else was involved.
THURS. SEPTEMBER 14, 1995: A British judge, Justice Morland, sitting at Mold Crown Court imposed a fine of £250,000 after Nuclear Electric pleaded guilty to four charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act relating to an incident at Wylfa nuclear power station in Anglesey, north Wales on July 31, 1993.
Kevin McNamara, ex-British Labour Party shadow secretary for the Six Counties resigned from his party's front bench, accusing party leader Tony Blair of "slavishly following the twists and turns and contradictions in the British government's conduct of the peace process".
FRI. SEPTEMBER 15, 1995: A nationalist house in Donegall Park Avenue in north Belfast was attacked by petrol-bombers.
In Craigavon, Co Armagh a woman and her 11-year-old son missed death when a shotgun was fired into their home from a stationary car at 3am.
At Belfast Crown Court Gerard Martin Loughlin (25), with an address in the Twinbrook area of West Belfast, was sentenced to 15 years for conspiring to kill members of the British Crown Forces and with possession of explosives.
There are 105,100 people unemployed in the Six Counties, according to figures supplied by the Irish National organisation for the Unemployed.
SAT. SEPTEMBER 16, 1995: A Republican Sinn Féin rally calling for a British withdrawal was held on the eve of the All-Ireland football final in Dublin's O'Connell Street.
A home in Lakeside Gardens, Dungannon, Co Tyrone came under arson attack in the early hours of Saturday morning and a disused Protestant church hall on Whitewell Road, Belfast was gutted by a firebomb attack.
SUN. SEPTEMBER 17, 1995: Dublin won the All-Ireland Senior Football Final and Westmeath the Minor, defeating Tyrone and Derry respectively.
A catering couple, Charlie and Veronica Halton, who had just returned from the US to take up a post at a tourist site in Slieve Gullion, Co Armagh were sacked and thrown out of their residence at the weekend because they would not serve Baroness Denton, British economy minister, an agent of the British crown.
MON. SEPTEMBER 18, 1995: Paul Norney, an Irish political prisoner from Belfast who has served more than 20 years in an English jail, was transferred to Maghaberry jail in the Six Counties.
The British Home Office refused a political prisoner, Patrick Magee (35) from the Ardoyne area of Belfast, leave to attend his father's funeral.
WED./THURS. SEPTEMBER 20/21, 1995: At a meeting of the London/Dublin Interparliamentary Body former British minister Michael Mates said "that appeasement would have to stop" and the Provos bluff called, "even if that meant a short-term resumption of violence".
THURS. SEPTEMBER 21, 1995: Michael Hegarty of Clare and Dublin was charged before the Special Court at Green Street, Dublin, remanded to Portlaoise Prison, removed from his cell in Portlaoise prison after spending two hours there and transferred to Limerick jail
FRI. SEPTEMBER 22, 1995: The new UUP leader, David Trimble proposed that if immediate elections were called to a new Stormont assembly unionists would debate there with the Provisionals, if they took their seats.
At Belfast Crown Court Garry Witty McMaster, with an address at Boundary Walk, Shankill, Belfast, was sentenced to over 300 years. McMaster pleaded guilty to having been involved in planting a booby-trap bomb outside the Provisionals Belfast headquarters in February 1994 and a short time later firing shots into a house in Hatfield Street.
Lecturer Alan Bryans (43) who is a native of Belfast was awarded damages of nearly £30,000 by an English industrial tribunal in Newcastle-upon-Tyne which heard how a constant stream of anti-Irish abuse had led to a loss of weight and the need for psychiatric counselling.
SUN. SEPTEMBER 24, 1995: Sources in the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) confirmed that two British soldiers who had served in the Occupied Six Counties had been questioned the previous week in relation to a cache of arms which had turned up on the black market.
TUES. SEPTEMBER 26, 1995: Republican Sinn Féin held a press conference in Belfast, attended by the President of the organisation, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, to launch a new recruiting drive in the city.
Two Irish political prisoners in jail in England, Michael O'Brien from Dublin, who is in the third month of a "dirty protest" and Patrick Kelly from County Laois, have been refused transfers to prison in the Six Counties because their families do not live there.
WED. SEPTEMBER 27, 1995: Judges of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled by 10 votes to nine that the killing of the three Irish citizens — Máiréad Farrell, Dan McCann and Seán Savage — shot dead by the SAS at Gibraltar in March 1988 violated European laws protecting human rights.
THURS. SEPTEMBER 28, 1995:
The High Court in London ruled that both English and European law was breached in the denial of consideration by the parole board of the cases of five Irish political prisoners who have completed 20 years actual imprisonment.
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