For The Record

WED. JANUARY 3, 2001: Helena McCambridge and her two sons, aged seven and four, were in bed asleep when five shots were fired into their home in Fanad Walk in Craigyhill, Larne, Co Antrim at around 1.30am by members of a loyalist death squad. One of the bullets struck a window frame and ricocheted around the living-room. Two people were seen running away after the attack.

Two pipe bombs were found in the grounds of St Matthew’s Church of Ireland church in Cambrai Street, off the loyalist Shankill Road in Belfast.

THURS. JANUARY 4, 2001: The home of Uel Norton (36), his partner Patricia McLaughlin (37) and their two sons aged 16 and 15 at Newmills, Coleraine, Co Derry was targeted in a pipe-bomb attack by a loyalist death squad. The family were not at home when a pipe-bomb exploded in their front garden, followed by a burst of gunfire. This was the third sectarian attack on their home in five years and the family were forced to flee their home for fear of further attacks.

SUN. JANUARY 7, 2001: Eleven people were targeted by loyalist death squads in Ballymena, Co Antrim. In the first of two attacks which occurred within an hour of each other, a pipe-bomb was hurled through the living-room window of a house on the Cushendall Road, Ballymena at 8.30pm where two adults and three children were watching television. The device landed on a chair. A man was seen running towards a car, a blue Ford Escort, parked at the gates of a cemetery just yards from the house.

In the second attack a pipe-bomb was thrown at a house on Clonavon Road near Ballymena town centre at around 9.20pm. Three adults and three children escaped injury. RUC members dressed in riot gear were involved in a confrontation with a crowd of about 150 people in Derry city at 2am.

MON. JANUARY 8, 2001: It was reported that British soldiers from the Parachute Regiment had been sent into Portadown, Co Armagh as tensions mounted between the UVF and LVF loyalist death squads.

The body of former UDA man George Legge (37), a close associate of loyalist killer Michael Stone, was found dumped at Clontoncally Road near the Four Winds area of south Belfast. He had been badly beaten, stabbed and had his throat cut.

A mother and son were recovering after a bomb was thrown through the window of their living room in Laharna Avenue, Larne, Co Antrim, last night and blew up beside them. There was a loud bang and the living room filled with acrid smoke after the device was thrown through the window. The mother and son escaped room uninjured.

TUES. JANUARY 9, 2001: It was reported that the British Police Ombudsman in the Six Counties, Nuala O’Loan, had received more than 700 complaints from members of the public in her first two months of office. The complaints included 274 allegations of assault by RUC members and more than 160 failures of duty in areas such as the detention of suspects and searching of premises.

A County Antrim family escaped injury when a device was thrown at their home. It hit an outside wall and failed to go off. A woman and her three children were in the house at Circular Road, Ballymena, Co Antrim at the time.

A mother and son are recovering after a bomb was thrown through the window of their living room in Laharna Avenue, Larne, Co Antrim, last night and blew up beside them. There was a loud bang and the living room filled with acrid smoke after the device was thrown through the window. The mother and son escaped room uninjured.

WED. JANUARY 10, 2001: A pipe-bomb was thrown at the home of a nationalist family in the Roddens area of Larne, Co Antrim. The device failed to explode.

THURS. JANUARY 11, 2001: A bomb exploded outside the constituency office of the SDLP on the Antrim Road in north Belfast. Four people were in the building but nobody was injured.

A 16-year-old boy escaped injury after he found a pipe-bomb in the garden of his home in Kilrea, Co Derry and brought it inside.

It was reported that there have been 31 pipe-bomb attacks on nationalist homes since October 2000.

FRI. JANUARY 12, 2001: A pipe-bomb was thrown at a house in Balee, Ballymena, Co Antrim.

A pipe-bomb was found on the window-sill of the Diamond Bar at Ahoghill, Co Antrim.

MON. JANUARY 15, 2001: An explosive device was thrown at an RUC patrol car in Cookstown, Co Tyrone. Two RUC men were treated for shock after the device exploded and damaged the rear of the car.

It was reported that the Parachute Regiment had been deployed in Co Fermanagh.

TUES. JANUARY 16, 2001: A 1,000lb bomb was found by the RUC on the Monaghan road outside Armagh city.

A pipe-bomb was found in the back garden of a house at Cavehill Road, in North Belfast. The house is owned by the brother of the RUC Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan.

WED. JANUARY 17, 2001: A van was abandoned outside the RUC barracks in Claudy, Co Derry. It was reported that the vehicle had been hijacked in Derry city earlier that day by two armed men who said they were from the IRA. Controlled explosions were carried out by British army bomb disposal experts and it was found to be a hoax.

A nationalist man, David McCambridge (30), in Larne, Co Antrim was threatened by a loyalist shouting abuse and wielding a machete.

The home of John McGinty (62), who suffered a heart attack the previous week, was targeted by loyalists who placed a pipe-bomb in his garden at Donnelly Park, on the Bendooragh Road, between Kilrea and Ballymoney, Co Antrim.

A pipe-bomb was thrown at the window of the Slemish Bar in William Street, Co Antrim. It failed to explode.

FRI. JANUARY 19, 2001: Archbishop Seán Brady of Armagh said he was currently unable to pledge his full support for the new policing arrangements in the Six Counties.

SAT. JANUARY 20, 2001: Political prisoner Danny McAllister (45), who had been on hunger strike since January 1, protesting against the denial of compassionate parole for political prisoners in Portlaoise who oppose the Stormont Agreement, ended his fast.

SUN. JANUARY 21, 2001: A booby-trap device containing 100lbs of explosive and a commercial explosive booster was found at the rear of the RUC barracks in Claudy, Co Derry.

It was reported that three-year-old Adele Shaw, Larne, Co Antrim, had been withdrawn from pre-school classes because of fears that she was being stalked by loyalists. The Shaw family have been repeatedly targeted by loyalists in the past.

MON. JANUARY 22, 2001: British army bomb disposal experts carried out a number of controlled explosions on a car abandoned close to the Maydown roundabout in Derry city. Nothing was found.

Helena McCambridge and her two young sons were forced to flee her Fanad Walk home in Larne, Co Antrim when her house was attacked for the eighth time by loyalist death squads. Bricks and bottles were hurled through the windows and earlier her father’s home in Linn Road was also attacked.

A bottle was thrown through the rear window of a house in Lealies Drive, Antiville, Larne, Co Antrim.

TUES. JANUARY 23, 2001: A mortar packed with 200lb of homemade explosives was projected from a van over a security fence at Ebrington British army barracks Iin Derry. The mortar failed to explode.

WED. JANUARY 24, 2001: Peter Mandelson, British supremo in the Six Occupied Counties, resigned over his alleged mishandling of a British passport application by wealthy Indian businessman. He was replaced by the British Secretary for Scotland, John Reid.

The UDA/UFF British-backed loyalist death squad were blamed for a gun attack on the home of Martin Meehan jnr, son of former Republican prisoner Martin Meehan, in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. His brothers home was also attacked.

The home of Seán Paul Magee (21) in Lothair Avenue, Belfast, who is facing charges following the discovery of a bomb in a car, was damaged when a pipe-bomb exploded in the living-room, causing intensive damage to the interior of the house and blowing out all the windows downstairs.

THURS. JANUARY 25, 2001: Six improvised bombs were found on the roof of Beechfield Primary School in a loyalist area of east Belfast.

A nationalist man in the Ardoyne area of Belfast escaped injury when a device fell off the underside of his car. The UDA were blamed for placing the device.

In the loyalist Waterside area of Derry three men broke into a house in the Kilfinnan area and hijacked a car. The car was later stopped in Drumahoe by the RUC and the men arrested.

In New Mossley, Co Antrim, the RUC found two handguns, a sawn-off shotgun and a quantity of ammunition during searches in the area.

The home of a nationalist couple, Raymond Coyle (61) and Annie Coyle (55) on the Shearwater Road in the Waterside in Derry was attacked when a device exploded in the rear garden.

FRI. JANUARY 26, 2001: The front door of St Mary’s Chapel in Priestland Road, Bushmills, Co Antrim was damaged when a car was pushed against it and set alight.

A petrol-bomb and the remains of a second was discovered by a caretaker in the grounds of St Anthony’s Primary School in Larne, Co Antrim.

A controlled explosion was carried out by British army bomb disposal experts on a suspect device discovered under a car in Kervera Mews, in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.

A pipe-bomb was discovered on the roof of a car in Carnany Drive, Ballymoney, Co Antrim.

A British soldier, Cpl Anthony Green, of the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots, died in Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry after being shot in Shackleton barracks in Ballykelly, Co Antrim.

SAT. JANUARY 27, 2001: A group of nationalists were set upon around 1.30am by a loyalist mob inside the city walls, close to the loyalist Fountain area. A woman and a man had their arms broken in the attacks and another women had a broken nose. Thirteen people were injured in the incident.

SUN. JANUARY 28, 2001: Shots were fired at a house in Alliance Road, Belfast. A 34-year-old man narrowly escaped injury.

The home of Helen and Karl Smets in Shearwater Way in the Waterside area of Derry was targetted by loyalists when the remains of an exploded pipe-bomb was found in their garden. The home of Helen Smets sister, Anne Coyle had been attacked on January 26.

The home in Ardoyne, in Belfast of another son of Martin Meehan was fired upon by loyalist gunmen.

A bullet was fired through the window of a house in ALliance Road, near Farrington Court in Belfast. No one was injured.

MON. JANUARY 29, 2001: It was reported that a loyalist suspected of planning a gun attack on the Rising Sun bar at Greysteel, Co Derry, in 1993, which killed eight people, was believed to be helping orchestrate the campaign of pipe bomb attacks to force nationalists to leave their homes in the North.

Six members of the MacAdorey family, Bawnmore Park in a predominantly nationalist area of Greencastle, outside Belfast, escaped injury when they uncovered a pipe-bomb which had been put in their bin. It was believed that it was the work of the UDA/UFF loyalist death squad.

Four men from Cork, believed to be members of the military wing of the Provisionals, were arrested by 26-County police who stopped the car in which the were travelling at Mitchelstown, Co Cork. Three handguns and baseball bats were found in the car. They were later charged in the District Court with firearms offences.

TUES. JANUARY 30, 2001: Two nationalist families escaped injury after separate pipe bomb attacks in Coleraine, County Derry. In one attack, a device was thrown through the living room window of a house in the Ballysally area. A man and a woman were in the room and escaped before the device exploded. Their two children, aged two and four, were asleep upstairs at the time.

In the other attack, a device was thrown at the kitchen window of a house in the Harper’s Hill area. The device landed on the kitchen floor but did not explode. A woman occupant and her two children aged eight and 14 escaped uninjured.

WED. JANUARY 31, 2001: A car containing a pipe-bomb which was abandoned by a loyalist death squad outside a community centre on Alliance Avenue in Belfast was believed to have been intended to be planted at the home in Ardoyne of the brother of a Republican Sinn Féin activist. The RUC searched his house looking for a device but found nothing and the occupants continued their own search.

The RUC visited two houses in the area and told the occupants that pipe-bombs had been thrown at their homes during the night.
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