It was announced that the Royal Marine Commando unit will not be replaced when they return to Britain at the end of November.
FRI. NOVEMBER 3, 1995: The Special Court in Dublin handed down an 11-and-a-half year sentence to Noel Christopher Magee (34) for an attack on a UDR soldier in February 1992.
The British Queen Elizabeth signed legislation apologising to the Maoris in New Zealand for events in 1863 and returning money and lands to the value of NZ $170 million which was stolen from them.
The number of people out of work in the 26 Counties, according to the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed is 306,173.
SUN. NOVEMBER 5, 1995: The 38th annual commemoration to five Republican martyrs who died in a premature explosion at the Border at Edentubber, Co Louth in 1957, took place.
MON. NOVEMBER 6, 1995: Two Irish political prisoners -- Nessan Quinlivan (Limerick) and Pearse McAuley (Tyrone) -- who escaped from Brixton prison, London in July 1991 and were later arrested in the 26 Counties and convicted on a charge of possession of arms, were released from Portlaoise jail in the 26 Counties and re-arrested immediately to face extradition to Britain. They were released early from Portlaoise along with two other Provisional members, Mark Farrell and Gerard Kearns, both from Dublin.
WED. NOVEMBER 8, 1995: A judicial review was granted allowing the relatives of three men -- John McNeill, Peter Thompson and Eddie Hale -- shot dead by British Crown Forces outside Sean Graham's betting shop on January 3, 1991, to appeal the coroner's decision not to call two soldiers as witnesses to the inquest.
THURS. NOVEMBER 9, 1995: A new RUC barracks was opened as a new sub-divisional headquarters in Lisburn, Co Antrim, and cost £7 million sterling by the British security minister for the Six Occupied Counties John Wheeler.
Pearse McAuley and Nessan Quinlivan who appeared in the Dublin High Court on foot of extradition warrants to Britain were refused bail by Dublin High Court Judge Frank Murphy on the grounds that their escape from Britain made it likely that they would not attend court if they were given bail.
The British Home Secretary, Michael Howard, told three prisoners -- Pat Magee, Tommy Quigley and Paul Kavanagh, who are on temporary transfer from prisons in Britain to Maghaberry prison in the Six Counties but are still subject to prison regulations as they pertain in Britain -- that "they should never be let out, but if a tariff is required it is 50 years".
FRI. NOVEMBER 10, 1995: A van containing home-made explosives was discovered by 26-County police near Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan.
SAT./SUN. NOVEMBER 11-12, 1995: The 91st Ard-Fheis of Republican Sinn Féin took place in Dublin.
SAT. NOVEMBER 11, 1995: Michael Hegarty (43), a native of Clarecastle, Co Clare, and a member of the Republican Sinn Féin Ard-Chomhairle, was remanded in custody to Cork jail by the Special (non-jury) Court in Dublin in connection with the explosives find in Co Monaghan.
MON. NOVEMBER 13, 1995: The SDLP published a document with proposals to make the paramilitary Royal Ulster Constabulary more acceptable to nationalists.
TUES. NOVEMBER 14, 1995: An incendiary device was found attached to the Star of the Sea Catholic church in Whiteabbey, Co Antrim.
WED. NOVEMBER 15, 1995: The boiler-house in the O'Donovan Rossa GAA club changing rooms in Magherafelt, Co Derry was extensively damaged in a deliberate overnight fire.
The RUC tried unsuccessfully to blackmail a nationalist man -- Alexander Patterson from Belfast -- by threatening to show his wife a photograph of him with an ex-girlfriend in an attempt to turn him into an informer.
In the British Queen's speech, to open a new session of the Westminster parliament the British government announced that the full range of its oppressive legislation for dealing with the war in Ireland is to be replaced with new legislation which gives broadly the same powers to the Crown Forces, and the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act is also to be renewed.
There are now 105,700 people unemployed in the Six Occupied Counties, according to the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed.
THURS. NOVEMBER 16, 1995: The United Nations Committee Against Torture called for the British government to repeal its repressive legislation and to close the Castlereagh torture centre.
FRI. NOVEMBER 17, 1995: Eighty-eight political prisoners were released conditionally with the restoration of 50 per cent remission in the Occupied Six Counties.
Green Party MEP Patricia McKenna won her case in the Dublin Supreme Court which ruled against the Dublin administration spending taxpayers' money to promote one side in a referendum.
WED. NOVEMBER 22, 1995: The convicted killer of teenager Karen Reilly (18) in west Belfast in September 1990, Para Lee Clegg, has been promoted to lance-corporal by the British army only months after being freed from a "life sentence" for the murder which lasted less than four years.
Finn McCool (31), a nationalist from west Belfast said that the RUC attacked him without provocation when he was leaving the Blackstaff Bar on the Springfield Road. He received 174 stitches for a head wound.
FRI. NOVEMBER 24, 1995: A referendum was held in the 26 Counties to decide if the prohibition on divorce would be lifted.
SAT. NOVEMBER 25, 1995: The referendum on divorce in the 26 Counties was passed with 50.28 per cent for and 49.72 against.
TUES. NOVEMBER 28, 1995:
The grave of former Sinn Féin Vice-President, Máire Drumm, was desecrated for the third time when a marble Celtic Cross over her grave in Belfast's Milltown cemetery was smashed with a sledge-hammer.
THURS. NOVEMBER 30, 1995:
Robert McGilloway, from Derry and with an address in Dublin, appeared before the Special Court, Dublin charged with possession of an explosive substance on November 10 and having an explosive substance with intent to endanger life or to cause serious injury.
John Gallagher, who was served with an exclusion order in 1991, won his case against Britain in the European Court of Justice. The court in Luxembourg ruled on November 30, that Gallagher's exclusion from Britain was in breach of an EEC directive on the treatment of foreign nationals.
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