MON. JULY 3, 1995: The British Secretary of State for the Six Counties, Patrick Mayhew, released convicted murderer Private Lee Clegg of the British Paratroop Regiment spending less than four years in custody.
Following the release of Lee Clegg vehicles were hijacked and burned in Belfast, Derry, Lurgan, Armagh, Coalisland, Dungannon and Newry.
THURS. JULY 6, 1995: A young couple with a young child had a narrow escape when a firebomb was thrown into their livingroom by loyalist gangs. A mother-of-five in Walmer Street, Belfast was beaten up and suffered facial cuts and bruising. She said she was in no doubt that she was singled out because she was a Catholic. Nationalist families in Agra Street off the Ormeau Road were attacked and petrol-bombed.
FRI. JULY 7, 1995: Rioting took place in Dungannon, Cookstown and Pomeroy in Co Tyrone, in Crossmaglen, Cullaville and Armagh city in Co Armagh, and a school bus was burned out in Roslea, Co Fermanagh as protests continued in nationalist areas of the Six Counties on the release of Private Lee Clegg.
The number of people unemployed in the Six Counties, according to the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed is 300,773.
SAT. JULY 8, 1995: Over a 100 people took part in a picket on Limerick Prison, where a campaign is ongoing to obtain political status for Republican prisoners John Carmody and Billy Hennessy. Following the picket a public meeting was held in Thomas Street in the centre of Limerick.
SUN. JULY 9, 1995: Following a sit-down protest by hundreds of nationalist residents of the Garvaghey Road area of Portadown an Orange Order parade was prevented by the RUC from marching through the Garvaghey Road area of Portadown.The Orangemen, numbering several hundred, refused to re-route their parade and maintained a stand-off at Drumcree Church with a large force of RUC.
A soldier of the Highlander Regiment of the British army, Private Scott Harrington from Aberdeenshire in Scotland, was found shot dead at Ebrington Barracks in Co Derry.
MON. JULY 10, 1995: The UVF loyalist death squad figure, Billy Wright, known as the "man from Portadown" and "King Rat" appeared near the nationalist area of Portadown and threatened to bring in more loyalists from other towns.
Disturbances took place in Derry city, Larne, Co Antrim and Belfast as loyalists came out in support of the Portadown Orangemen.
In Portadown a nationalist family from Corcrain Drive were burned out of their home in the early hours.
A cache of arms including an Uzi submachine gun, a pistol, silencer and 500 rounds of ammunition were discovered in the Dundalk area of Co Louth.
TUES. JULY 11, 1995: Following a night of serious rioting outside Portadown, Co Armagh, a deal was made between the Orange Order and the RUC allowing local Orangemen to parade through the nationalist Garvaghy Road area of Portadown.
WED. JULY 12, 1995: The annual Orange parades took place throughout the Six Counties. Nationalist residents in the Lower Ormeau Road of Belfast who have been campaigning for some time for sectarian marches to be re-routed away from their area found themselves "under curfew" as hundreds of RUC members had arrived in the Ormeau Road around 4am. Residents were prevented from leaving their homes and blocking the parade, due to take place four hours later.
About 500 residents and supporters took part in a sit-down protest until the Orangemen marched back again on their way home and were beaten and kicked by heavily-armed RUC in riot gear. Four residents were hospitalised as a result of several RUC attacks. As news of the curfew in the Lower Ormeau spread nationalists took to the streets in other areas of Belfast, hijacking commercial vehicles and setting them alight in protest.
Residents of the nationalist Short Strand enclave in Belfast came under attack from loyalists returning from an Orange parade and women and children were stoned by the gang going up the Newtownards Road, who also tried to break windows in their houses.
THURS. JULY 13, 1995: Two members of the Ard Chomhairle of Republican Sinn Féin, Geraldine Taylor, Belfast and Sarah Murphy, South Armagh, visited the residents of the lower Ormeau Road in a gesture of solidarity, and to find out for themselves what the exact position was on the ground.
In the Glengormley area of Belfast a family was burned out of their home in Harmin Park in the early hours.
Eleanor Keenan of Seaforde Street in the Short Strand area of Belfast tried to prevent two RUC men chasing two boys through the arch at the side of her house. When she appealed to the RUC men not to hit the boys one of them struck her with a baton. She was later treated in hospital.
Petrol bombs were thrown at the RUC in the mainly loyalist Waterside area of Derry during Eleventh night celebrations. In Belfast the RUC came under attack as loyalists from Duncairn Gardens fought with nationalists from the New Lodge Road area.
Vehicles were hijacked and set alight. In Erskine Park, Ballyclare, Co Antrim four people were taken to hospital after local residents clashed with bonfire-goers. Five RUC men were also slightly injured after a hostile 60-strong crowd threw missiles at them at Rathmore Green in Larne, Co Antrim during another Eleventh bonfire celebration on July 12. Four arrests were made.
The lack of an adequate independent appeals procedure against deportation under the British Prevention of Terrorism Act was the subject of a challenge mounted by John Gallagher from Ballyshannon, Co Donegal in the European Court of Justice.
FRI. JULY 14, 1995: Residents of the Graymount area of north Belfast claimed they were being forced out of their homes by sectarian gangs.
St Mary's Catholic Church at Chapel Road, Ballinderry, Lisburn, Co Antrim was broken into and an attempt made to set it alight.
SAT. JULY 15, 1995: St Brigid's Catholic Church on Windsor Avenue, in the Malone Road area of south Belfast was damaged in an arson attack. A window was smashed and a petrol bomb thrown into Assumption Grammar School and in Ballynahinch in Co Down and a number of graves in a Catholic graveyard at Killenchy Street in Comber, Co Down were desecrated.
Five Irish political prisoners at Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire, England embarked on a "dirty protest" on July 15 while others are refusing prison visits in an attempt to secure better conditions.
SUN. JULY 16, 1995: A builder's yard on the Deerpark Road in north Belfast was destroyed in an arson attack and a van was burnt out in the Black's Road in west Belfast. The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Cullybackey, near Ballymena was firebombed, causing extensive damage.
Plans to build a new RUC police barracks on the Springfield Road in Belfast were announced by the Six-County British Police Authority.
MON. JULY 17, 1995: Arsonists broke into a first-floor classroom of the Star of the Sea Catholic primary school and set fire to a pile of books, badly damaging the room. A British army Land Rover patrol was petrol-bombed in the Short Strand area of Belfast.
There are 102,900 people out of work in the Six Counties, according to figures supplied by the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed.
WED. JULY 19, 1995: A loyalist group calling itself the Protestant Defence Force threatened in a phone call to a Belfast newspaper that they would strike hard at the Catholic community in the event of attacks on loyalist property.
THURS. JULY 20, 1995: Three Irish political prisoners — INLA members, Eamonn O'Donnell and Seán Cruickshank (both of Derry) and Provisional Gerard Mackin of Belfast — were transferred from jails in England to Maghaberry prison in the Six Counties.
A 15-year-old nationalist boy was attacked by eight loyalists wielding baseball bats at the Abbey Shopping complex in Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast. He was treated in hospital for head injuries, a broken finger and severe bruising.
FRI. JULY 21, 1995: Five political prisoners in Portlaoise jail in the 26 Counties ended a hunger-strike after four days on July 21 after discussions between lawyers and the Dublin department of justice.
Two priests at Greystone Catholic Church in Co Antrim managed to put out a fire after a lighted petrol-soaked rag was thrown through a porch window. Earlier in the day St Mary's Catholic Church in Jerrettspass, Co Armagh was damaged in an arson attack.
Scuffles broke out between the RUC and Provisional protesters at a rally outside Belfast City Hall.
SUN. JULY 23, 1995: The roof of St Mary's Catholic Training Teacher Training College on Belfast's Stewartstown Road was badly damaged when a bin was set on fire and wheeled to the door.
MON. JULY 24, 1995: Two of the five protesting Irish political prisoners — Martin McGonagle and Liam Heffernan — came off their no wash and blanket protest in order to meet a visiting delegation of Dublin politicians and describe to them the conditions in the Whitemoor jail "Special Secure Unit" (SSU).
TUES. JULY 25, 1995: Paul Loughran (23) was shot dead in Lurgan, Co Armagh in a similar killing to that of Brendan Campbell (24) who died in Craigavon on July 9. Both killings are reported to be linked to a senior drugs figure in Belfast.
THURS. JULY 27, 1995: Three more political prisoners in an English jail — Provisional Feilim Ó hAdhmhaill and INLA prisoners Martin McGonagle and Liam Heffernan — were transferred to Maghaberry prison outside Belfast. All three had ended their dirty protest in Whitemoor Prison earlier this week.
Provisional leader Gerry Adams had talks with Patrick Mayhew, British direct-ruler for the Six Counties at Stormont Castle.
FRI. JULY 28, 1995: Paratrooper Lee Clegg, who was convicted of the murder of Belfast teenager Karen Reilly but released in June after serving less than four years of his life sentence is to be allowed to stay in the British army, according to the British Ministry of Defence.
The UN Human Rights Committee published a report calling amongst other things, for the speedy dismantling of emergency legislation and an end to seven-day detention.
Long Kesh escapee Jimmy Smyth lost an appeal against extradition proceedings from the USA to the Six Counties in a San Francisco court.
SAT. JULY 29, 1995: Two RUC men were seriously injured and several others suffered minor injuries when they came under attack from loyalist rioters in Lurgan, Co Armagh.
SUN. JULY 30, 1995: Loyalists smashed windows in cars and flats and broke into two flats in the Cliftonpark Avenue area of Belfast, causing damage. Later two loyalists threw petrol bombs at people walking nearby.
Twelve Provisional prisoners were given conditional early release by the Dublin administration from Portlaoise Prison.
MON. JULY 31, 1995:
Six loyalists, including a prominent member of the Progressive Unionist Party, Lindsay Robb, which has close links to the British-backed loyalist death squad, the UVF, were charged in Scotland with conspiracy to procure firearms and explosives for the UVF.
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