Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh

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Around 10% of the population was born outside the United Kingdom and Ireland, mainly immigrants from the European Union and concentrated in the Craigavon urban area ( Lurgan, Portadown and Craigavon). Ulsterbus provides the most extensive public transport system within the county, including frequent bus transfers daily from most towns to Belfast.

Throughout the 1980s, as Sinn Fein attempted to gain political influence, the PIRA and other groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) continued their campaign of violence. Further attempts at creating devolved government in the region foundered with the Unionists staunchly resisting the idea of power sharing. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. This figure is based on a tally of all persons resident in the wards comprising County Armagh on 29 April 2001, i.Andrew Nesbitt (1960), raised in Aughnagurgan, County Armagh, professional rally driver and winner of the 2000 and 2002 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. My team were probably the most vulnerable in that policing world of Northern Ireland, that’s a fact.

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In the months before the 1994 IRA ceasefire, the British army rebuilt its base at the police station – known as Operation Rectify, it was the largest British military airmobile operation since D-Day – to withstand attacks by the Provisional IRA’s South Armagh Brigade. The atrocity shocked people on all sides, but it also spurred moderate Irish nationalists to seek a political solution to the conflict.