TUES. JUNE 1, 1999: Rush-hour traffic was disrupted in Armagh city after a hoax bomb warning. A caller using a recognised CIRA codeword said a 500lb bomb had been placed in Russell Street, off the Mall in the heart of Armagh. The RUC searched the area from 4pm but called off the search 90 minutes later.
WED. JUNE 2, 1999: A mother and two children escaped injury when a device was thrown through the letter box of their home at Manor Estate, in Lisburn, Co Antrim. The smoke alarm went off and alerted the family who managed to put out the blaze.
Three people were arrested following clashes when petrol bombs and stones were thrown near the peace line at Clifton Park Avenue/Manor Street in Belfast.
FRI. JUNE 4, 1999: The home of a nationalist man, Joe Murnin (39), a father-of-four, at Hilltown, Co Down was targeted in a grenade attack by a loyalist death squad, six years after his mother was injured by a letter bomb.
An exploded pipe bomb was found at a house at Clandeboyd Gardens in east Belfast.
SAT. JUNE 5, 1999: Elizabeth O'Neill (59), a mother-of-two was killed by a British-backed loyalist death squad who threw a pipe bomb through the living-room window of her home in the mainly loyalist Corcrain estate in Portadown, Co Armagh. She was a Protestant married to a Catholic.
An unexploded pipe bomb was found and made safe at St Matthew's Court in the Short Strand area of Belfast.
A blast bomb exploded after being thrown at the front window of a house in Westland Road, Portadown, Co Armagh where a woman, her 10-month-old baby and her sister lived.
SUN. JUNE 6, 1999: At Acacia Avenue in Twinbrook on the outskirts of Belfast several families were forced to leave their homes while the British army carried out controlled explosions on two pipe bombs which had been lying for several hours in an area where children play.
MON. JUNE 7, 1999: A pipe bomb was found outside St Mary's Catholic primary school in Ballymena, Co Antrim.
TUES. JUNE 8, 1999: Fourteen pipe bombs and some ammunition were found in the mainly loyalist Mourneview estate in Lurgan, Co Armagh by the RUC.
SAT. JUNE 12, 1999: Following a series of four mini-Twelfth marches in Portadown, Co Armagh by the Portadown Orange Lodge trouble flared resulting in 11 RUC men injured and four people arrested. The most serious disturbances were at the Garvaghy Road and Drumcree where the RUC were attacked with petrol bombs, fireworks and stones by loyalists. The parades effectively cut off all access by nationalists to the town.
A petrol bomb was thrown at a house in Drumad Drive in Lisburn, Co Antrim causing damage to a shed and a van parked at the rear. Two teenage girls who were alone in the house were uninjured.
SUN. JUNE 13, 1999: The annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration took place at Bodenstown, Co Kildare. The oration was delivered by Marian Price, Belfast.
The body of Paul 'Bull' Downey of Ballyholland Road, Newry, Co Down, believed to be a drug dealer, who had been abducted from the carpark of a Newry hotel was found shot dead at Belleek in County Armagh.
MON. JUNE 14, 1999: A gunman, believed to be a member of the loyalist death squad the UVF, fired two shots at two men standing near the Sandy Row Supporters Club in what is thought to be the latest attack in a loyalist feud dating back to the killing of UVF man Robert 'Basher' Bates in 1997.
THURS. JUNE 17, 1999: Self-confessed informer Martin McGartland, who had been relocated in North Tyneside in England by British Crown Forces was shot at least three times in the stomach as he sat in the back garden of his "safe house".
An Orange hall at Ballywillwill, Co Down was destroyed in an arson attack
FRI. JUNE 18, 1999: The home of Belfast nationalist Ann Marie McIlroy at North Queen Street was targeted by loyalists who threw a brick through the window.
In Larne, Co Antrim the RUC were attacked by 12 to 15 youths.
SAT. JUNE 19, 1999: Ten people were arrested, six by 26-County police and four by the RUC, in a joint operation in South Armagh and the Dundalk area of Co Louth.
SUN. JUNE 20, 1999: Four RUC members were injured when they came under attack in the Bloomfield area of Derry city from a crowd of about 75 people who pelted them with stones.
WED. JUNE 23, 1999: A pipe bomb was discovered by the RUC in a car parked outside Annadale Flats at Haywood Drive in south Belfast .
An explosion in the back garden of a house in the Oldpark area of Belfast caused scorch damage to a gate.
THURS. JUNE 24, 1999: Unionists began a "long march" to Portadown beginning in Derry where they were picketed by 200 members of the Bogside Residents Group carrying banners with the names of people who had been murdered as a result of the Drumcree stand-off. The marchers, who said they are marching for "civil rights" for Protestants passed the Rising Sun public house in Greysteel, Co Derry, where seven people were shot dead by a loyalist death squad in 1993. Several marchers laughed and smirked as they passed the pub and local people carried out a spontaneous protest, forming a line in front of the bar and turning their back on the marchers.
Two men were arrested by 26-County police near Manorcunningham, Co Donegal and bomb components were allegedly found in the blue Ford Escort van in which they were travelling.
William Alfred Stobie (48), a former soldier in the Ulster Defence Regiment, was charged with the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane on February 12, 1989. The murder was claimed by the British-backed loyalist death squad the UFF and in court Stobie claimed that he was working for the RUC Special Branch at the time of the shooting.
SAT. JUNE 26, 1999: It was reported that the Orange Order has applied to hold 1,300 marches over the next six weeks, 40 of these in the Portadown, Co Armagh area.
Two Derry men -- Raymond Griffiths (34), of Cromore Gardens and Thomas Ashe Mellon were charged with possession of explosives at Manorcunningham, Co Donegal on June 24 at the Special Court in Dublin. Both men were accepted into the Provisional wing at Portlaoise prison.
A masked loyalist gang set up a checkpoint at the junction of Ardoyne Road and the Crumlin Road, stopping cars and interrogating drivers. The British colonial police stood by and refused to intervene.
MON. JUNE 28, 1999: A joint statement from the loyalist death squads the Orange Volunteers and the Red Hand Defenders said that their members had been put "on full alert from midnight" after the Orange Order was banned from marching on the Garvaghy Road by the British Parades Commission. As Parades Commission chairperson Alastair Graham was delivering his remarks at a hotel at Stormont, a loyalist bomb warning was phoned in and the hotel had to be cleared.
TUES. JUNE 29, 1999: The bodies of two men -- Brian McKinney (22) and John McClory (18), both from west Belfast -- who had been killed by the IRA in 1978 were discovered by 26-County police searching at a designated site at Colgagh, near Castleblaney, Co Monaghan.
The home of a 45-year-old nationalist woman and her six-year-old son at Finaghy Road, Belfast was targeted by loyalists who pushed a pipe bomb through her letter-box. The device exploded but no one was injured.
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