WED. NOVEMBER 1, 2000: The home near the Springhill estate in Belfast of Nicola O’Connor (26), widow of Joe O’Connor, shot dead by the Provisionals on October 15, was picketed by around 100 Provisionals waving placards.
The home of Anthony McIntyre in Ballymurphy, Belfast was picketed for the second time by a large crowd of Provisionals.
A bomb attack at Castlewellan, Co Down RUC barracks seriously injured an RUC man, a full-time reservist in his 40s. A colleague was treated for shock after the incident. They were returning to the base when two devices exploded. It is thought they were triggered when the men opened the front gate.
A man was shot dead in Belfast on Ballyronan Park, Newtownabbey, on the northern outskirts of the city in what was believed to be another attack linked to loyalist in-fighting, British Crown Forces said. Reports circulating locally suggested the latest victim was aged in his 20s and was connected to the outlawed UVF.
WED. NOVEMBER 8, 2000: Adele Shaw (29), whose husband John (40) has been hospitalised because of constant attacks from loyalist death squads, including a narrow escape from a booby-trap bomb in October, appealed for her family to be left alone. Over the previous weekend their car had been set alight and they were assaulted and their lives threatened as they shopped in Larne, Co Antrim,
THURS. NOVEMBER 9, 2000: It was announced by the British army in Belfast that the RIR regiment was to be restructured. This will not mean a reduction in the strength of the regiment in the Occupied Six Counties, which will remain at just over 4,000 personnel.
SAT. NOVEMBER 11, 2000: The RUC stopped a white van near the Teemore crossroads outside Derrylin in Co Fermanagh and found a mortar bomb. Four people were arrested.
SUN. NOVEMBER 12, 2000: In a statement sent to the Irish Times newspaper the Continuity IRA claimed the attack on Castlewellan RUC barracks on November1 in which an RUC man was badly injured.
TUES. NOVEMBER 14, 2000: British army bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious device at Main Street, Donaghmore, Co Tyrone.
WED. NOVEMBER 15, 2000: British army bomb disposal experts made safe two pipe bombs found in a hedgerow at Gray’s Lane, Larne, Co Antrim.
A pipe bomb was found below the window of a house at Glendun Close, Portrush, Co Derry.
Three Co Fermanagh men – Seán Morris Gileece (36) of Molly Road, Kinawley; John James Joseph Connolly (25), and John Martin Swift (36) both from Newtownbutler -- were charged at a special court in Enniskillen with possessing explosives with intent to endanger life on November 11.
It was learned that Tommy Crossan had been moved to a new block (Roe House) within the prison which also houses the UDA prisoner Johnny Adair, which for that reason is commonly known as ‘Adair House’.
SAT./SUN. NOVEMBER 18/19, 2000: The 96th Ard-Fheis of Republican Sinn Féin took place in Dublin.
SAT. NOVEMBER 18, 2000: A GAA dinner dance at the Tullyglass Hotel in Ballymena, Co Antrim was targeted by a crowd of loyalist youths who stoned the building, breaking several windows.
TUES. NOVEMBER 21, 2000: The Policing Bill which renames the RUC passed all stages in the British House of Commons and was agreed by a vote of 299 to 81, in which the SDLP voted for the Bill.
One hundred and fifty Portadown Orangemen held a demonstration near nationalist homes on the Garvaghy Road, having marched from the centre of Portadown to the Craigwell and Corcrain Bridge area and then on to Drumcree hill.
WED. NOVEMBER 22, 2000: A report on sectarian attacks against nationalists in the Seacourt estate in Larne, Co Antrim stated that there have been eight petrol bombings, two explosions, nine assaults, 17 cases of intimidation and two firearms incidents since the beginning of 2000.
THURS. NOVEMBER 23, 2000: It was reported that 600 sex cases have been lodged against the RUC in the last 23 years.
The Police (Northern Ireland) Bill was signed into law by the British Queen Elizabeth.
FRI. NOVEMBER 24, 2000: The British Ministry of Defence announced that Scots Guards James Fisher and Mark Wright, who were convicted of the 1992 murder of north Belfast teenager Peter McBride, would not be dismissed from the British army.
St Mary’s Catholic primary school at Greenlough outside Portglenone in Co Antrim was damaged in an arson attack.
Three people were arrested in a British Crown Forces raid on the nationalist Galliagh estate in the Shantallow area of Derry city where a number of firearms, ammunition and items of clothing were found.
SUN. NOVEMBER 26, 2000: Comhaltis Ghael Scoil Dhál Riada, an Irish language school in Dunloy, Co Antrim was damaged in an arson attack.
An elderly couple were forced to flee their home at Clonmore Green, Rathcoole, Newtownabbey, outside Belfast following an attack by a loyalist gang, who broke into the ground floor flat and threatened them and ordered them to move out.
MON. NOVEMBER 27, 2000:
A 2lb semtex bomb was found under a vehicle parked outside a house at Drumshane, near Lisnarick, Co Fermanagh. British army bomb disposal experts defused it.
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