TUES. NOVEMBER 2, 1999: The RUC found a number of pipe-bombs during searches of the loyalist Mourneview area of Lurgan, Co Armagh.
WED. NOVEMBER 3, 1999: Paul and Mervyn Armstrong of Dunadry, Co Antrim were charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition; the former was accused of possessing information likely to be of use to [loyalist] paramilitaries as well. Stuart Wilson was charged with being a member of the Orange Volunteers and with three other offences. All three were remanded in custody.
THURS. NOVEMBER 4, 1999: Over 300 British army files containing photographs, addresses, telephone numbers and other personal items of nationalist people in south Armagh and the greater Belfast areas were found by the RUC during a search of Stoneyford Orange Hall in Co Antrim.
FRI. NOVEMBER 5, 1999: Computer equipment and documents were seized by the RUC during a raid on a premises in Coagh, Co Tyrone.
St Columb’s Catholic church on Derry’s Waterside came under attack when two petrol bombs were thrown against the exterior walls.
SAT. NOVEMBER 6, 1999: Five RUC men were injured when they were attacked by a crowd who threw petrol bombs, paint bombs, bricks and stones at them when they were called to deal what turned out to be an elaborate hoax device outside in house in the Lake Street area of Lurgan, Co Armagh. The RUC fired plastic bullets at the crowd.
The RUC were attacked by around 60 people in the Ballymagroarty area of Derry city. Attempts were made to overturn an RUC Land Rover and to set fire to another. Two police men were injured.
St Patrick’s Church in Moy, Co Tyrone was damaged in an arson attack.
SUN. NOVEMBER 7, 1999: O’Neill’s funeral home on the Stewartstown Road in west Belfast was attacked when petrol was poured through a pipe into the embalming room and set alight. Extensive damage was done to the business’s preparing room.
In the early hours of the morning, the home of a Catholic family from the Turf Lodge area of west Belfast was petrol bombed. A couple and their two youngest children were in the house at the time but were uninjured.
MON. NOVEMBER 8, 1999: A petrol bomb was through the front room window of a house at Dromara Road, in the nationalist lower Ormeau Road area of Belfast. No one was injured but the house sustained smoke damage.
In Newry, Co Down five envelopes, each containing a bullet, were intercepted at the local postal sorting office. Each were addressed to Republicans in the Down area and also contained a threatening letter signed "OV" (Orange Volunteers).
WED. NOVEMBER 10, 1999: A pipe bomb with a jar of nails attached to it was discovered on the windowsill of a flat off of Belfast’s Lower Ormeau Road. The device was later made safe by a British Army bomb disposal team.
THURS. NOVEMBER 11, 1999: O’Neill’s funeral home on the Stewartstown Road in west Belfast was targeted again by loyalists when what appeared to be a pipe bomb was found on the premises. The device turned out to be a hoax. The premises had been set on fire on November 7.
SAT. NOVEMBER 13, 1999: The 95th Republican Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis opens in Dublin.
SUN. NOVEMBER 14, 1999: The home of nationalists Hilary Miller (82) and her daughter (also Hillary) was attacked by the British-backed loyalist death squad at Bann Drive in the predominantly loyalist Irish estate in Derry city. Petrol was poured through the front door and both women were critically injured in the resulting fire. Her son was also injured.
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) later issued a statement, blaming the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) for the sectarian arson attack in Derry.
A north Belfast family nationalist were targeted by a loyalist pipe bomb which exploded after being thrown at their home in Westland Road. The family had been told by the RUC two weeks previously that their names were on a loyalist hit-list found in an Orange hall.
The home of a nationalist family in north Belfast was targeted in a pipe bomb attack. No one was injured in the attack.
A 22 year-old woman and her boyfriend were kicked, beaten and spat upon by three loyalists in the Shaftesbury Square area of Belfast city centre.
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, President, addressed the 95th Ard-Fheis of Republican Sinn Féin in Dublin.
MON. NOVEMBER 15, 1999: The Mitchell Review concluded with a deal between the Stormont parties which committed the Provisional’ military wing to decommissioning by a stated time in order to allow their political wing to take up executive seats in the Stormont Assembly.
It was reported that the British government are to bring forward a new Bill which will update and make permanent draconian legislation such as the Prevention of Terrorism Act and Emergency Provisions Act and other temporary measures that had to be renewed annually by the British parliament.
Hugh Patrick Gerard Fox (29) of Oakfield Close, Moy, Co Tyrone was charged at Cookstown Magistrate’s court with damaging by fire the exterior doors of St Patrick’s Catholic Church.
TUES. NOVEMBER 16, 1999: The home of a nationalist man from Harryville, Ballymena, Co Antrim was petrol bombed. Two of the family were in the house at the time but no one was injured. There was extensive damage to the living room.
WED. NOVEMBER 17, 1999: Following a vote in Leinster House the 26-County State agreed to join the NATO-led Partnership for Peace.
Two men from Derry, aged 32 and 28, were charged in Derry in connection with the attack on the Miller home in the city on November 13.
A caller claiming to represent the loyalist death squad the Orange Volunteers claimed that a pipe bomb had been left in the grounds of the Kennedy Centre shopping complex in west Belfast. A search was carried out but nothing was found.
Explosives and arms were found by the RUC in the Mourne Drive area of Derry city following the attack on the Miller family on November 13.
Michael O’Hara (45), a nationalist man from Seaforde Street near the Newtownards Road in the Short Strand area of Belfast was attacked by two men who struck him in the face with the butt of a pistol before hacking him on the arm, head, stomach and back with a machete. The LVF loyalist death squad were being linked to the attack.
THURS. NOVEMBER 18, 1999: Ammunition, fuse wire, timing packs and a handgun were found by workmen along the roadside near Letterkenny, Co Donegal.
Parishioners from St Gerard’s Catholic Church on the Antrim Road in north Belfast were stoned by a number of youths as they left the church after 7pm Mass. One man suffered minor head injuries.
SAT. NOVEMBER 27, 1999: The Ulster Unionist Council of the Ulster Unionist Party voted 480 in favour and 349 against to conditionally support the Mitchell Review deal.
SUN. NOVEMBER 28, 1999: Onlookers reported that the RUC fired plastic bullets during disturbances at the Nutts Corner marks in Belfast when police seized suspected counterfeit goods.
MON. NOVEMBER 29, 1999:
The Stormont Executive was set up with three UUP, three SDLP, two DUP and two Provisionals being selected for the executive.
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