The Ben Dearg GAA club at Kilclief, near Downpatrick in Co Down was firebombed.
FRI. AUGUST 4, 1995: The number of people out of work in the 26 Counties is 299,133 according to figures supplied by the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed.
SAT. AUGUST 5, 1995: At around 1.30am a portable building on the platform at Belfast Central train station was gutted by fire and the canopy covering the main platform was also damaged.
SUN. AUGUST 6, 1995: An incendiary device was found under seating at the Pink Pussycat nightclub at Molesworth Street in Cookstown, Co Tyrone.
In the early hours of August 6 fire destroyed a portable building on the platform at Belfast Central and flower containers and hanging baskets along a 100-metre section of the platform were destroyed.
Two INLA prisoners, Michael McCarthy and James Gorman, both from Dundalk, began a hunger strike protest in Portlaoise jail in the 26 Counties over the issue of compassionate parole.
MON. AUGUST 7, 1995: Two children were taken to hospital when a car containing plainclothes undercover members of the RUC ran into them on Belfast's Falls Road.
THURS. AUGUST 10, 1995: Patrick Kelly, the Irish political prisoner who is in the sixth week of a "dirty protest" in Whitemoor jail in England and who is suffering from skin cancer was finally moved to a hospital in Peterborough in the north of England for medical treatment.
British Crown Forces (RUC) launched an invasion of the nationalist area of Ardoyne in Belfast. The operation, which began in the early hours of the morning and lasted until midday consisted of an array of Land Rovers and personnel. They sealed off a 500-yard stretch of road and searched several houses in Ballynure Street.
FRI. AUGUST 11, 1995: Michael Stone (39), who is serving a 30-year sentence for the murder of six Catholics, including three people murdered during a grenade attack on the funerals in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast of the three Republicans shot dead in Gibraltar in March 1988 by the SAS, was allowed out of prison on parole on the weekend of August 11-13.
The Drumaness GAA club at Crawfordstown Road in Co Down was firebombed by loyalists.
SAT. AUGUST 12, 1995: RUC paramilitary police attacked and fired plastic bullets at nationalists who were protesting against the sectarian Apprentice Boys parade through the lower Ormeau Road in south Belfast, injuring dozens of local people including one man struck at point-blank range in the face by a four-inch long plastic bullet travelling at more than 150 miles per hour.
The Apprentice Boys achieved a second success on the morning of August 12 when about 1,000 RUC members removed 200 protesters from a part of the historic Derry City walls which overlook the nationalist Bogside area in order to allow 200 loyalists and four bands to parade there for the first time in living memory.
Residents of the mainly nationalist village of Rasharkin in Co Antrim were attacked by members of a loyalist band which accompanied an Apprentice Boys march through the town.
Twenty-six County police found home-made detonators and about two-and-a-half pounds of Semtex explosive, along with stainless steel mixing bowls, electric wire, 10 emergency flares and drums of chemicals at Midleton, Co Cork.
SUN. AUGUST 13, 1995: A loyalist gang upturned and set fire to a dove of peace that had been sited on a plinth in Belfast's Carlisle Circus.
MON. AUGUST 14, 1995: Lambeg Orange Hall at Church Hill, Co Down was gutted by fire.
A petrol bomb was thrown through the window of the home of a nationalist man at Church Avenue in Dundrum, Co Down and in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim a petrol bomb was thrown into the livingroom of a house at Dunlushkin Gardens.
THURS. AUGUST 17, 1995: Prominent loyalist Billy Wright (35), from Hatfield Square, Portadown, Co Armagh appeared at Craigavon magistrate's court charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice and issuing threats. Wright, known as 'King Rat' is alleged to have indicated on August 10 last to Stephen Reed, the son of a witness to an attempted murder that if any charges were pressed he would be in danger. He is also charged with threatening Stephen Reed's mother Gwendoline Ann Reed. He was remanded in custody to Belfast magistrate's court on September 8.
Six men — Paul Patrick Magee, Daniel McNamee, Liam McCotter, Liam O Duibhir, Peter Sherry and Andrew Russell — were accused at Belmarsh magistrate's court of attempting to escape from Whitemoor prison, Cambridgeshire in September 1994 by cutting through two welded wire fences. They are also charged with possession of a .225 automatic handgun with intent to endanger life. The six were further remanded in custody until September 14 next.
FRI. AUGUST 18, 1995: Two petrol bombs were thrown at the home of a nationalist businessman at Derriaghy in south Belfast.
In Doagh, Co Antrim a petrol bomb was thrown through the front window of a house at 1am and the outside of the house was scorch damaged. A second device was discovered at the front door.
A hall belonging to the Holy Family parish at Teconnaught in Co Down was petrol-bombed.
There are now 105,100 people out of work in the Six Counties, according to the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed.
Six hundred soldiers of the infamous Parachute Regiment of the British army were withdrawn from the Occupied Six Counties, to be replaced with 600 troops from the almost equally infamous Royal Green Jackets.
FRI./SAT./SUN. AUGUST 18-19-20, 1995: The Rock Catholic Church at Tullydonnell Road, Pomeroy, Co Tyrone was damaged in a sectarian attack; the Kimberley Bar, off the loyalist Sunnyside Street in south Belfast was extensively damaged by fire; fire damaged the upstairs of Corcrain Orange Hall on Obins Street in Portadown, Co Armagh and scorched part of Ballyrea Orange Hall on Balltranon Road, Armagh; a vacant house on the Ballysillan Road in Belfast was gutted; two cars were burned out in Springhill Park and Newtown Place in Strabane, Co Tyrone and a bus was destroyed in the car park of the Glenarvon Hotel in Cookstown, Co Tyrone.
SAT. AUGUST 19, 1995: The home of nationalists Stephen and Angela Lismore, at the top end of Black's Road in west Belfast was attacked for the 55th time.
SUN. AUGUST 20, 1995: A house at Leckagh Drive in Magherafelt, Co Derry was petrol-bombed by loyalists.
MON. AUGUST 21, 1995: Three Catholic churches including the church in Tandragee, Co Armagh and St John's, Craigavon, Co Armagh were attacked by petrol-bombs and a Baptist Hall was fire-bombed in east Belfast.
MON./TUES. AUGUST 21/22, 1995: Three school buses, a caravan and a tyre depot were damaged by fire in the nationalist town of Strabane, Co Tyrone. Magherall Orange Hall received scorch damage in an arson attack and St Brigid's Church on the Malone Road in Belfast was also damaged by fire.
Petrol bombs were thrown at houses along the Albertbridge Road, in the nationalist Short Strand area of Belfast, three of which exploded. One of the residents, Frances McGeown, said her home had been attacked several times in the past three years.
In Lisburn, Co Antrim a petrol bomb was thrown into the rear window of an unoccupied house.
THURS. AUGUST 24, 1995: St Paul's Catholic Church in Portadown Road, Lurgan, Co Armagh suffered scorch damage when the front door was set on fire by a loyalist gang.
Paul Norney, now in his 21st year in jail in England, was cleared of charges made under archaic mutiny laws after a pool table was overturned in a jail recreation room at Christmas 1993.
FRI. AUGUST 25, 1995: The British government announced that it is to bring in legislation to restore 50 per cent remission of sentence for Irish political prisoners on a conditional basis.
SAT. AUGUST 26, 1995: The annual commemoration in honour of the Republican hunger strikers who died for Ireland in 1974, 1976 and in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in 1981 took place in Bundoran, Co Donegal.
Approximately 100 uniformed RUC members and 30 police Landrovers attacked nationalists protesting against a parade by the loyalist Royal Black Preceptory which proceeded to march the full length of the nationalist village of Bellaghy, Co Derry.
SUN. AUGUST 27, 1995: A man was admitted to Tyrone County Hospital with broken ribs and kidney damage following a vicious assault by loyalists at the weekend. His son was also admitted after being struck in the chest by a plastic bullet fired by a member of the British Crown Forces (RUC).
MON. AUGUST 28, 1995: James Molyneaux, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, announced his retirement.
TUES. AUGUST 29, 1995: Petrol bombs were thrown at the sangar outside the British army security base in Crossmaglen.
THURS. AUGUST 31, 1995: The INLA hunger strike in Portlaoise prison ended.
The offices of the Alliance and Leicester building society in Upper Main Street, Strabane, Co Tyrone was damaged when flammable liquid was poured through the letterbox.
Also in Co Tyrone a young farmers' club at Victoria Bridge was damaged by fire; two lorries were destroyed in the Melmount industrial estate in Strabane and the telephone exchange at Castlederg, Co Tyrone was broken into and set alight.
A burning tyre was dropped through the roof of an Orange hall at Stoneyford, near Lisburn, Co Antrim and a fire was started in a clothing factory on Strand Street in Derry.
In Limestone Road, north Belfast a lorry and mechanical digger were set alight.
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