The creation of Northern Ireland was accompanied by violence both in defence of and against partition. Duringthe conflict of 1920–22,the capitalBelfastsaw majorcommunal violence,mainly between Protestant unionist and Catholic nationalist civilians. More than 500 were killed and more than 10,000 became refugees, mostly Catholics. For the next fifty years, Northern Ireland had an unbroken series ofUnionist Party governments.There was informal mutualsegregationby both communities, and the Unionist governments were accused of discrimination against the Irish nationalist and Catholic minority. In the late 1960s, acampaign to end discriminationagainst Catholics and nationalists was opposed byloyalists,who saw it as arepublicanfront. This unrest sparkedthe Troubles,a thirty-year conflict involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries and state forces, which claimed over 3,500 lives and injured 50,000 others. The 1998Good Friday Agreementwas a major step in thepeace process,includingparamilitary disarmamentand security normalisation, althoughsectarianismand segregation remain major social problems, and sporadic violence has continued. (Full article...)
TheAnglo-Irish Agreementwas a 1985 treaty between theUnited Kingdomand theRepublic of Irelandwhich aimed to help bring an end tothe TroublesinNorthern Ireland.The treaty gave theIrish governmentan advisory role in Northern Ireland's government while confirming that there would be no change in the constitutional position of Northern Ireland unless a majority of its citizens agreed to join the Republic. It also set out conditions for the establishment of adevolvedconsensus government in the region.
In 1993,Yorkshire Televisionbroadcast a programmeThe Hidden Hand: the Forgotten Massacre,and the narrator named McConnell as a member of one of the two UVF bomb teams that perpetrated threecar bomb attacksinDublinon 17 May 1974, which killed 26 people. The programme also linked him toBritish military intelligenceand CaptainRobert Nairac,stating that McConnell and key figures from the bombing unit were controlled before and after the bombings by Nairac.RUC Special Patrol Group(SPG) officerJohn Weiralleged that McConnell had been part of the UVF unit that shot leadingProvisional IRAmanJohn Francis Greento death in January 1975. Weir also alleged that McConnell had been one of the gunmen in theReavey family shootings,as well as having had a key role in the bomb and gun attack against Donnelly's Bar the previous month. These were part of a series of sectarian attacks and killings that were carried out by the group of loyalist extremists known as theGlenanne gang,of which McConnell was a member. This gang comprised rogue elements of theRoyal Ulster Constabulary(RUC), the SPG,Ulster Defence Regiment(UDR), and the UVF'sMid-Ulster Brigade,which from 1975 to the early 1990s was commanded byRobin "the Jackal" Jackson.Jackson was also implicated by theHidden Handin the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and he was reportedly involved in the Green assassination. (Full article...)
... that despite being the first women's football team inNorthern Irelandto sign players on professional contracts,Cliftonville Ladies F.C.were not the first club to register them?
... that after visiting Hungary in 2015, members ofAction Deaf Youthheaded toStormontto demand better sign language support in Northern Ireland?
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