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the loudest thing I ever heard was steam being released at a coal fired power plant,it lasted about 15 minutes,sitting inside a truck cab it was still deafening
Hell Proof
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Off the top of my head the sortation slide in the Amazon warehouse I was at had an alarm when it was over capacity that could be heard from far away
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
The bomb going off in Canary wharf London set off the by the IRA, I was only about 500 yards away when it went off, prior to that a dry steam ultra high pressure boiler safety valve letting rip when I worked for a chemical company , it was heard over 50 miles away.
Brent S
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Probably that thing I heard right before going deaf 
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WGregMiller
Demi-God
Probably that thing I heard right before going deaf
Huh??? You say somethin?
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
Pardon?
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
Hilary Rodham Clintons Banshee screech of angst when she was beaten by a Hotel manager with a dead badger on his head to becoming POTUS, it echoed around the world nearly match by the hysterical outraged sob of the democrats, and the "WHAT!" from CNN journalists.
Arcticdude
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My ex wife. She was a screamer....
I had a .44 Magnum that was ported on each side of the front site to reduce muzzle climb . I would shoot it without hearing protection . That was 35 years ago , it kept Me from being able to join the Military and My ears still ring . Always teach new shooters to wrar ear protection . No tuff Guy don't need them stuff .
I understand all thats left now of the IRA is a left wing socialist group .
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
I understand all thats left now of the IRA is a left wing socialist group .
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Timeline of dissident republican activity
June 2017
Image copyrightJUSTIN KERNOGHAN
Image captionChristine Connor said she was "at war" with the PSNI
A woman described as a lone-wolf dissident republican is jailed for 16 years for attempting to murder police officers.
Christine Connor, 31, posed as a Swedish model online to lure men into helping her kill officers.
She admitted a number of terror charges, including some related to a homemade grenade thrown at a police vehicle in 2013.
A few days earlier, the Police Service of Northern Ireland reveals that about 16 officers either move home or have special security measures installed at their house every year because of threats against them.
Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris says the threats are predominantly from dissident republicans but also from loyalist paramilitaries.
February 2017
Image copyrightMETROPOLITAN POLICE
Image captionCharges suggested that Ciarán Maxwell first became involved in terrorism in 2011
Royal Marine Ciarán Maxwell pleads guilty to offences related to dissident republican terrorism, including bomb-making and storing stolen weapons.
The County Antrim man had compiled a library of terrorism documents, including instructions on how to make explosives and tactics used by terrorist organisations.
He also had maps, plans and lists of potential targets for a terrorist attack, and a stash of explosives in purpose-built hides in England and Northern Ireland.
His sentencing is currently taking place at the Old Bailey in London.
February 2017
Image copyrightPRESS EYE
Image captionThe bomb exploded as it was being examined by the Army
A bomb explodes outside the home of a serving police officer in Londonderry on 22 February as Army experts try to defuse it.
The device, which police described as more intricate than a pipe bomb, was reportedly discovered under a car in Culmore in the city.
Children were in the area at the time, police said.
A gun attack on a 16-year-old boy in west Belfast on 16 February was "child abuse," a senior police officer said.
The attack followed a similar one the previous night, when a man was shot in the legs close to a benefits office on the Falls Road.
January 2017
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionThe shooting happened at a petrol station on the Crumlin Road
A police officer is injured in a gun attack at a garage on north Belfast's Crumlin Road on 22 January.
Police said automatic gunfire was sprayed across the garage forecourt in a "crazy" attack.
A 36-year-old man is arrested and police say the main line of inquiry is "violent dissident republicans".
The number of paramilitary-style shootings in west Belfast doubled in 2016 compared to the previous year, according to police figures.
The figures do not take into account three shootings in Belfast's Turf Lodge area since the start of January.
On 15 January, police say a bomb discovered during a security operation in Poleglass, west Belfast, was "designed to kill or seriously injure police officers".
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionDamien McLaughlin is due to stand trial in February
A judge on 6 January revokes the bail of a County Tyrone man facing trial on charges linked to the murder of prison officer David Black.
Damien Joseph McLaughlin, 40, of Kilmascally Road near Ardboe, is due to stand trial in February.
The court is told Mr McLaughlin had not been seen by police since November.
December 2016
A 45-year-old mechanic caught at a bomb-making factory on a farm will spend 11 years behind bars.
Barry Petticrew was arrested in October 2014 after undercover police surveillance on farm buildings near Kinawley, County Fermanagh.
Police found pipes, timer units, ammunition and high grade explosives in the buildings.
Image captionExplosive devices, improvised rockets, detonators, timing units and Semtex were discovered by Irish police
On 6 December, a 25-year-old dissident republican is jailed in Dublin for five years.
Donal Ó Coisdealbha from Killester, north Dublin was arrested on explosive charges in the run-up to the visit of Prince Charles to Ireland in 2015.
He was arrested during a Garda operation when explosive devices, improvised rockets, detonators, timing units and Semtex were discovered.
November 2016
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionFollowing the sentencing, police released a photo of the heavily bloodstained scene of the shooting
A man who admitted taking part in a paramilitary shooting in Belfast is sentenced to five years in jail and a further five years on licence.
Patrick Joseph O'Neill, of no fixed address, was one of three masked men who forced their way into the victim's home in Ardoyne in November 2010.
The man was shot several times in the legs and groin in front of his mother, who fought back with kitchen knives.
The dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann claimed responsibility for the shooting shortly after it took place.
October 2016
Image captionJoe Reilly was shot dead in a house at Glenwood Court
West Belfast man Joe Reilly, 43, is shot dead in his Glenwood Court, Poleglass home on 20 October.
It is understood a second man who was in the house was tied up by the gang. The shooting was the second in the small estate in less than a week - the other victim was shot in the leg.
Police later say they believe the the murder was carried out by a paramilitary organisation and there may have been a drugs link.
September 2016
Four men are charged on 26 September after police recovered an armour-piercing mortar during searches in Lurgan.
They were arrested on 21 September by police investigating dissident republican activity in the area.
Three men, aged 22, 24 and 46, are charged with targeting a former member of the security forces in the Craigavon area.
A fourth, aged 22, is charged with the attempted murder of police officers.
Dissident republicans form a new political party called Saoradh - the Irish word for liberation.
Several high-profile dissidents from both sides of the border were among about 150 people at its first conference in Newry.
Image copyrightFACEBOOK
Image captionCiarán Maxwell was arrested after searches in County Antrim and Devon
Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell appears in court in England charged with terrorism, fraud and drugs offences.
The charges include making explosives and storing them in hides in England and Northern Ireland.
He is also accused of possession of an adapted PSNI pass card and items of PSNI uniform. He denies the charges and is remanded in custody.
On 6 September, searches in County Antrim linked to the investigation of Mr Maxwell turn up a "significant amount of terrorist material", police say.
August 2016
On 24 August serving Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell, who is originally from Larne, is arrested in Somerset.
His arrest is connected to the discovery of two arms dumps near Larne earlier in the year.
The 30-year-old is suspected of preparing for acts of terrorism.
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionThe weapons were found in the grounds of a former convent on the outskirts of Lurgan
A major arms haul believed to be connected to dissident republicans is uncovered in County Armagh on 5 August.
Firearms and munitions were found by police during a two-day search operation in the grounds of a former convent on the outskirts of Lurgan.
The weapons that were discovered are believed to belong to the group known to as the New IRA.
July 2016
Police say they are investigating if a bomb found in Lisburn on 31 July had fallen from a vehicle.
A controlled explosion was carried out on the object after it was found in Market Place.
It was made safe and removed for examination during a security alert which lasted several hours.
June 2016
Police believe that pipe bombs found in Londonderry on 17 June could be linked to "violent dissident republican terrorism".
The two devices were discovered in the Highmoor Road area of the city.
May 2016
The discovery of arms in a County Antrim forest on 17 May was one of the most significant in recent years, police say.
A "terrorist hide" was uncovered at Capanagh Forest near Larne after two members of the public found suspicious objects in the woods on Saturday.
Some of the items found included an armour-piercing improvised rocket and two anti-personnel mines.
The threat level from Northern Ireland-related terrorism in Great Britain is raised from moderate to substantial.
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionTwo Claymore mines were among the arms found in Capanagh Forest
It means an attack in England, Scotland or Wales is "a strong possibility".
Home Secretary Theresa May says the level, set by security service MI5, "reflects the continuing threat from dissident republican activity".
Fifteen men are arrested in Strabane after paramilitary displays at the funeral of Dublin murder victim Michael Barr.
Barr, said to be a member of the New IRA, was shot dead in the Sunset House pub in Dublin on 25 April.
April 2016
A man dies after being shot three times in the leg in an alleyway at Butler Place, north Belfast, on Friday 15 April.
Michael McGibbon, 33, was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, where he later died.
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionPolice say Mr McGibbons killing carried the hallmarks of a paramilitary murder
Police have said Mr McGibbon had contacted them to say two masked men had arrived at his house on the evening of Thursday 14 April.
The men asked him to come out of the house but he refused and the men told him they would come back.
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionThe shooting took place in an alleyway at Butler Place in north Belfast
Mr McGibbon's murder has been referred to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.
Police say his killing carried the hallmarks of a paramilitary murder.
March 2016
Image copyrightISMAY FAMILY
Image captionAdrian Ismay was the 32nd prison staff member to be murdered in Northern Ireland because of his job
A murder investigation begins into the death of murder of prison officer Adrian Ismay, 11 days after he was injured in a booby-trap bomb attack in east Belfast.
The device exploded under the 52-year-old officer's van as he drove over a speed ramp at Hillsborough Drive on 4 March.
Days later, a dissident republican group widely referred to as the new IRA said it carried out the attack.
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionA bomb disposal expert examines the prison officer's van after the explosion in Hillsborough Drive, east Belfast
In the immediate aftermath of the bombing, the Police Service of Northern Ireland say they are "deeply concerned" about the threat posed by dissident republicans ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising later in the month.
Mr Ismay was thought to have been making a good recovery from his injuries, but was rushed back to hospital on 15 March, where he died.
A post-mortem examination found his death was as a "direct result of the injuries" he sustained in the bomb.
February 2016
In a statement to the BBC, a man claiming to speak on behalf of the Continuity IRA (CIRA) claims its members were responsible for a fatal gun attack on a Dublin hotel during a weigh-in for a boxing match, but Irish police (Gardaí) say they believe the motive for the killing was a criminal feud.
The alleged CIRA spokesman claimed to the BBC that its members had shot dead 33-year-old David Byrne because he had been involved in the killing of Real IRA leader Alan Ryan in Dublin in 2012.
Image copyrightAFP
Image captionA dissident republican group claimed responsibility for a gun attack at a boxing weigh-in event, but Irish police say they believe it was a criminal feud
Days later, police fears of a criminal feud appear to be realised as taxi driver Eddie Hutch is shot dead in a suspected revenge attack in his flat in Dublin's north inner city.
In mid-February, The Sunday Times newspaper alleges that a CIRA paramilitary from Northern Ireland is believed to have been among the six gunmeninvolved in the hotel shooting at the boxing weigh-in.
On the last day of the month, Alan Ryan's brother, Vinnie Ryan, is shot dead in Finglas, north Dublin. Irish police say Vinnie Ryan was also a well-known dissident republican, but they say they are not linking his murder to the gangland feud that killed David Byrne and Eddie Hutch.
December 2015
Dissident republicans have been dealt "a significant blow" by a weapons and explosives find in the Republic of Ireland, the Irish police (Gardaí) say.
The weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, mortars, detonators and other bomb parts, were discovered in County Monaghan, close to the border with Rosslea in County Fermanagh, on 1 December.
Insp James O'Leary, of Monaghan police station, said the weapons would have posed "a very significant threat to security personnel on both sides of the border".
Image copyrightPHILIP FITZPATRICK
Image captionIrish police found a range of weapons in County Monaghan
On 15 December, a further arms find, described as a "significant cache" by Irish state broadcaster RTÉ, is made in County Louth.
It has reported that the haul included AK47 assault rifles, mortars, explosive material, detonators, other bomb components and at least one revolver.
It follows police searches at a home and lands in Jenkinstown, close to the border with Northern Ireland.
November 2015
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionA number of shots hit the passenger window of a police car in an attack in west Belfast
A gun attack on police officers in west Belfast on 26 November, in which up to eight shots were fired, is being treated attempted murder.
A number of shots struck the passenger side of a police car parked at Rossnareen Avenue.
Two officers who were in the car were not injured but were said to have been badly shaken.
Image captionSome of the items discovered during searches in west Belfast
Police describe it as a "mindless, reckless attempt to kill officers".
On 23 November, police seize bomb-making components and ammunition during searches at Broom Close in Twinbrook and Glenwood Walk, Poleglass, in west Belfast.
The haul includes 700 rounds of assorted ammunition, seven mercury tilt switches, detonator cord, firework powder and an assault rifle magazine.
October 2015
The threat to the lives of police officers from dissident republicans in the north west of Northern Ireland remains severe, a senior officer says on 6 October.
Supt Mark McEwan said that from September 2014 there had been 15 bomb incidents in the Derry City and Strabane District council area.
They included seven attacks on the police.
On 10 October, a bomb is found in the grounds of a Londonderry ahead of a police recruitment event.
The police recruitment event was cancelled. Two other police recruitment events in Belfast and Omagh went ahead despite bomb alerts at the planned venues.
On 15 October, police said they believe that a bomb found in north Belfast may have fallen from a car belonging to a man with connections to the armed forces.
Image captionPolice said the bomb in north Belfast "had the potential to cause serious injury or death"
The device was discovered at Linden Gardens, off the Cliftonville Road.
It is not clear if the intended target was passing through the area or visiting someone there.
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said a young boy had kicked the bomb while it lay on the street.
On 16 October police said a "military-style hand grenade" was thrown at a patrol in Belfast as officers responded to reports of anti-social behaviour.
Police say the device, which failed to explode, was thrown at officers near Pottingers Quay.
Dissident republicans were suspected of being responsible for the attack.
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Afraid not.
Timeline of dissident republican activity
June 2017
Image captionChristine Connor said she was "at war" with the PSNI
A woman described as a lone-wolf dissident republican is jailed for 16 years for attempting to murder police officers.
Christine Connor, 31, posed as a Swedish model online to lure men into helping her kill officers.
She admitted a number of terror charges, including some related to a homemade grenade thrown at a police vehicle in 2013.
A few days earlier, the Police Service of Northern Ireland reveals that about 16 officers either move home or have special security measures installed at their house every year because of threats against them.
Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris says the threats are predominantly from dissident republicans but also from loyalist paramilitaries.
February 2017
Image captionCharges suggested that Ciarán Maxwell first became involved in terrorism in 2011
Royal Marine Ciarán Maxwell pleads guilty to offences related to dissident republican terrorism, including bomb-making and storing stolen weapons.
The County Antrim man had compiled a library of terrorism documents, including instructions on how to make explosives and tactics used by terrorist organisations.
He also had maps, plans and lists of potential targets for a terrorist attack, and a stash of explosives in purpose-built hides in England and Northern Ireland.
His sentencing is currently taking place at the Old Bailey in London.
February 2017
Image captionThe bomb exploded as it was being examined by the Army
A bomb explodes outside the home of a serving police officer in Londonderry on 22 February as Army experts try to defuse it.
The device, which police described as more intricate than a pipe bomb, was reportedly discovered under a car in Culmore in the city.
Children were in the area at the time, police said.
A gun attack on a 16-year-old boy in west Belfast on 16 February was "child abuse," a senior police officer said.
The attack followed a similar one the previous night, when a man was shot in the legs close to a benefits office on the Falls Road.
January 2017
Image captionThe shooting happened at a petrol station on the Crumlin Road
A police officer is injured in a gun attack at a garage on north Belfast's Crumlin Road on 22 January.
Police said automatic gunfire was sprayed across the garage forecourt in a "crazy" attack.
A 36-year-old man is arrested and police say the main line of inquiry is "violent dissident republicans".
The number of paramilitary-style shootings in west Belfast doubled in 2016 compared to the previous year, according to police figures.
The figures do not take into account three shootings in Belfast's Turf Lodge area since the start of January.
On 15 January, police say a bomb discovered during a security operation in Poleglass, west Belfast, was "designed to kill or seriously injure police officers".
Image captionDamien McLaughlin is due to stand trial in February
A judge on 6 January revokes the bail of a County Tyrone man facing trial on charges linked to the murder of prison officer David Black.
Damien Joseph McLaughlin, 40, of Kilmascally Road near Ardboe, is due to stand trial in February.
The court is told Mr McLaughlin had not been seen by police since November.
December 2016
A 45-year-old mechanic caught at a bomb-making factory on a farm will spend 11 years behind bars.
Barry Petticrew was arrested in October 2014 after undercover police surveillance on farm buildings near Kinawley, County Fermanagh.
Police found pipes, timer units, ammunition and high grade explosives in the buildings.
Image captionExplosive devices, improvised rockets, detonators, timing units and Semtex were discovered by Irish police
On 6 December, a 25-year-old dissident republican is jailed in Dublin for five years.
Donal Ó Coisdealbha from Killester, north Dublin was arrested on explosive charges in the run-up to the visit of Prince Charles to Ireland in 2015.
He was arrested during a Garda operation when explosive devices, improvised rockets, detonators, timing units and Semtex were discovered.
November 2016
Image captionFollowing the sentencing, police released a photo of the heavily bloodstained scene of the shooting
A man who admitted taking part in a paramilitary shooting in Belfast is sentenced to five years in jail and a further five years on licence.
Patrick Joseph O'Neill, of no fixed address, was one of three masked men who forced their way into the victim's home in Ardoyne in November 2010.
The man was shot several times in the legs and groin in front of his mother, who fought back with kitchen knives.
The dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann claimed responsibility for the shooting shortly after it took place.
October 2016
Image captionJoe Reilly was shot dead in a house at Glenwood Court
West Belfast man Joe Reilly, 43, is shot dead in his Glenwood Court, Poleglass home on 20 October.
It is understood a second man who was in the house was tied up by the gang. The shooting was the second in the small estate in less than a week - the other victim was shot in the leg.
Police later say they believe the the murder was carried out by a paramilitary organisation and there may have been a drugs link.
September 2016
Four men are charged on 26 September after police recovered an armour-piercing mortar during searches in Lurgan.
They were arrested on 21 September by police investigating dissident republican activity in the area.
Three men, aged 22, 24 and 46, are charged with targeting a former member of the security forces in the Craigavon area.
A fourth, aged 22, is charged with the attempted murder of police officers.
Dissident republicans form a new political party called Saoradh - the Irish word for liberation.
Several high-profile dissidents from both sides of the border were among about 150 people at its first conference in Newry.
Image captionCiarán Maxwell was arrested after searches in County Antrim and Devon
Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell appears in court in England charged with terrorism, fraud and drugs offences.
The charges include making explosives and storing them in hides in England and Northern Ireland.
He is also accused of possession of an adapted PSNI pass card and items of PSNI uniform. He denies the charges and is remanded in custody.
On 6 September, searches in County Antrim linked to the investigation of Mr Maxwell turn up a "significant amount of terrorist material", police say.
August 2016
On 24 August serving Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell, who is originally from Larne, is arrested in Somerset.
His arrest is connected to the discovery of two arms dumps near Larne earlier in the year.
The 30-year-old is suspected of preparing for acts of terrorism.
Image captionThe weapons were found in the grounds of a former convent on the outskirts of Lurgan
A major arms haul believed to be connected to dissident republicans is uncovered in County Armagh on 5 August.
Firearms and munitions were found by police during a two-day search operation in the grounds of a former convent on the outskirts of Lurgan.
The weapons that were discovered are believed to belong to the group known to as the New IRA.
July 2016
Police say they are investigating if a bomb found in Lisburn on 31 July had fallen from a vehicle.
A controlled explosion was carried out on the object after it was found in Market Place.
It was made safe and removed for examination during a security alert which lasted several hours.
June 2016
Police believe that pipe bombs found in Londonderry on 17 June could be linked to "violent dissident republican terrorism".
The two devices were discovered in the Highmoor Road area of the city.
May 2016
The discovery of arms in a County Antrim forest on 17 May was one of the most significant in recent years, police say.
A "terrorist hide" was uncovered at Capanagh Forest near Larne after two members of the public found suspicious objects in the woods on Saturday.
Some of the items found included an armour-piercing improvised rocket and two anti-personnel mines.
The threat level from Northern Ireland-related terrorism in Great Britain is raised from moderate to substantial.
Image captionTwo Claymore mines were among the arms found in Capanagh Forest
It means an attack in England, Scotland or Wales is "a strong possibility".
Home Secretary Theresa May says the level, set by security service MI5, "reflects the continuing threat from dissident republican activity".
Fifteen men are arrested in Strabane after paramilitary displays at the funeral of Dublin murder victim Michael Barr.
Barr, said to be a member of the New IRA, was shot dead in the Sunset House pub in Dublin on 25 April.
April 2016
A man dies after being shot three times in the leg in an alleyway at Butler Place, north Belfast, on Friday 15 April.
Michael McGibbon, 33, was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, where he later died.
Image captionPolice say Mr McGibbons killing carried the hallmarks of a paramilitary murder
Police have said Mr McGibbon had contacted them to say two masked men had arrived at his house on the evening of Thursday 14 April.
The men asked him to come out of the house but he refused and the men told him they would come back.
Image captionThe shooting took place in an alleyway at Butler Place in north Belfast
Mr McGibbon's murder has been referred to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.
Police say his killing carried the hallmarks of a paramilitary murder.
March 2016
Image captionAdrian Ismay was the 32nd prison staff member to be murdered in Northern Ireland because of his job
A murder investigation begins into the death of murder of prison officer Adrian Ismay, 11 days after he was injured in a booby-trap bomb attack in east Belfast.
The device exploded under the 52-year-old officer's van as he drove over a speed ramp at Hillsborough Drive on 4 March.
Days later, a dissident republican group widely referred to as the new IRA said it carried out the attack.
Image captionA bomb disposal expert examines the prison officer's van after the explosion in Hillsborough Drive, east Belfast
In the immediate aftermath of the bombing, the Police Service of Northern Ireland say they are "deeply concerned" about the threat posed by dissident republicans ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising later in the month.
Mr Ismay was thought to have been making a good recovery from his injuries, but was rushed back to hospital on 15 March, where he died.
A post-mortem examination found his death was as a "direct result of the injuries" he sustained in the bomb.
February 2016
In a statement to the BBC, a man claiming to speak on behalf of the Continuity IRA (CIRA) claims its members were responsible for a fatal gun attack on a Dublin hotel during a weigh-in for a boxing match, but Irish police (Gardaí) say they believe the motive for the killing was a criminal feud.
The alleged CIRA spokesman claimed to the BBC that its members had shot dead 33-year-old David Byrne because he had been involved in the killing of Real IRA leader Alan Ryan in Dublin in 2012.
Image captionA dissident republican group claimed responsibility for a gun attack at a boxing weigh-in event, but Irish police say they believe it was a criminal feud
Days later, police fears of a criminal feud appear to be realised as taxi driver Eddie Hutch is shot dead in a suspected revenge attack in his flat in Dublin's north inner city.
In mid-February, The Sunday Times newspaper alleges that a CIRA paramilitary from Northern Ireland is believed to have been among the six gunmeninvolved in the hotel shooting at the boxing weigh-in.
On the last day of the month, Alan Ryan's brother, Vinnie Ryan, is shot dead in Finglas, north Dublin. Irish police say Vinnie Ryan was also a well-known dissident republican, but they say they are not linking his murder to the gangland feud that killed David Byrne and Eddie Hutch.
December 2015
Dissident republicans have been dealt "a significant blow" by a weapons and explosives find in the Republic of Ireland, the Irish police (Gardaí) say.
The weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, mortars, detonators and other bomb parts, were discovered in County Monaghan, close to the border with Rosslea in County Fermanagh, on 1 December.
Insp James O'Leary, of Monaghan police station, said the weapons would have posed "a very significant threat to security personnel on both sides of the border".
Image captionIrish police found a range of weapons in County Monaghan
On 15 December, a further arms find, described as a "significant cache" by Irish state broadcaster RTÉ, is made in County Louth.
It has reported that the haul included AK47 assault rifles, mortars, explosive material, detonators, other bomb components and at least one revolver.
It follows police searches at a home and lands in Jenkinstown, close to the border with Northern Ireland.
November 2015
Image captionA number of shots hit the passenger window of a police car in an attack in west Belfast
A gun attack on police officers in west Belfast on 26 November, in which up to eight shots were fired, is being treated attempted murder.
A number of shots struck the passenger side of a police car parked at Rossnareen Avenue.
Two officers who were in the car were not injured but were said to have been badly shaken.
Image captionSome of the items discovered during searches in west Belfast
Police describe it as a "mindless, reckless attempt to kill officers".
On 23 November, police seize bomb-making components and ammunition during searches at Broom Close in Twinbrook and Glenwood Walk, Poleglass, in west Belfast.
The haul includes 700 rounds of assorted ammunition, seven mercury tilt switches, detonator cord, firework powder and an assault rifle magazine.
October 2015
The threat to the lives of police officers from dissident republicans in the north west of Northern Ireland remains severe, a senior officer says on 6 October.
Supt Mark McEwan said that from September 2014 there had been 15 bomb incidents in the Derry City and Strabane District council area.
They included seven attacks on the police.
On 10 October, a bomb is found in the grounds of a Londonderry ahead of a police recruitment event.
The police recruitment event was cancelled. Two other police recruitment events in Belfast and Omagh went ahead despite bomb alerts at the planned venues.
On 15 October, police said they believe that a bomb found in north Belfast may have fallen from a car belonging to a man with connections to the armed forces.
Image captionPolice said the bomb in north Belfast "had the potential to cause serious injury or death"
The device was discovered at Linden Gardens, off the Cliftonville Road.
It is not clear if the intended target was passing through the area or visiting someone there.
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said a young boy had kicked the bomb while it lay on the street.
On 16 October police said a "military-style hand grenade" was thrown at a patrol in Belfast as officers responded to reports of anti-social behaviour.
Police say the device, which failed to explode, was thrown at officers near Pottingers Quay.
Dissident republicans were suspected of being responsible for the attack.
Brent S
Top Poster
Wow. I had no idea this much was still going on. Our press seems to ignore it. The world is full of angry people, and too many easily available weapons.I understand all thats left now of the IRA is a left wing socialist group .
Psalm7, Today at 10:03 AMReport
Afraid not.
Timeline of dissident republican activity
June 2017
Image copyrightJUSTIN KERNOGHAN
Image captionChristine Connor said she was "at war" with the PSNI
A woman described as a lone-wolf dissident republican is jailed for 16 years for attempting to murder police officers.
Christine Connor, 31, posed as a Swedish model online to lure men into helping her kill officers.
She admitted a number of terror charges, including some related to a homemade grenade thrown at a police vehicle in 2013.
A few days earlier, the Police Service of Northern Ireland reveals that about 16 officers either move home or have special security measures installed at their house every year because of threats against them.
Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris says the threats are predominantly from dissident republicans but also from loyalist paramilitaries.
February 2017
Image copyrightMETROPOLITAN POLICE
Image captionCharges suggested that Ciarán Maxwell first became involved in terrorism in 2011
Royal Marine Ciarán Maxwell pleads guilty to offences related to dissident republican terrorism, including bomb-making and storing stolen weapons.
The County Antrim man had compiled a library of terrorism documents, including instructions on how to make explosives and tactics used by terrorist organisations.
He also had maps, plans and lists of potential targets for a terrorist attack, and a stash of explosives in purpose-built hides in England and Northern Ireland.
His sentencing is currently taking place at the Old Bailey in London.
February 2017
Image copyrightPRESS EYE
Image captionThe bomb exploded as it was being examined by the Army
A bomb explodes outside the home of a serving police officer in Londonderry on 22 February as Army experts try to defuse it.
The device, which police described as more intricate than a pipe bomb, was reportedly discovered under a car in Culmore in the city.
Children were in the area at the time, police said.
A gun attack on a 16-year-old boy in west Belfast on 16 February was "child abuse," a senior police officer said.
The attack followed a similar one the previous night, when a man was shot in the legs close to a benefits office on the Falls Road.
January 2017
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionThe shooting happened at a petrol station on the Crumlin Road
A police officer is injured in a gun attack at a garage on north Belfast's Crumlin Road on 22 January.
Police said automatic gunfire was sprayed across the garage forecourt in a "crazy" attack.
A 36-year-old man is arrested and police say the main line of inquiry is "violent dissident republicans".
The number of paramilitary-style shootings in west Belfast doubled in 2016 compared to the previous year, according to police figures.
The figures do not take into account three shootings in Belfast's Turf Lodge area since the start of January.
On 15 January, police say a bomb discovered during a security operation in Poleglass, west Belfast, was "designed to kill or seriously injure police officers".
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionDamien McLaughlin is due to stand trial in February
A judge on 6 January revokes the bail of a County Tyrone man facing trial on charges linked to the murder of prison officer David Black.
Damien Joseph McLaughlin, 40, of Kilmascally Road near Ardboe, is due to stand trial in February.
The court is told Mr McLaughlin had not been seen by police since November.
December 2016
A 45-year-old mechanic caught at a bomb-making factory on a farm will spend 11 years behind bars.
Barry Petticrew was arrested in October 2014 after undercover police surveillance on farm buildings near Kinawley, County Fermanagh.
Police found pipes, timer units, ammunition and high grade explosives in the buildings.
Image captionExplosive devices, improvised rockets, detonators, timing units and Semtex were discovered by Irish police
On 6 December, a 25-year-old dissident republican is jailed in Dublin for five years.
Donal Ó Coisdealbha from Killester, north Dublin was arrested on explosive charges in the run-up to the visit of Prince Charles to Ireland in 2015.
He was arrested during a Garda operation when explosive devices, improvised rockets, detonators, timing units and Semtex were discovered.
November 2016
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionFollowing the sentencing, police released a photo of the heavily bloodstained scene of the shooting
A man who admitted taking part in a paramilitary shooting in Belfast is sentenced to five years in jail and a further five years on licence.
Patrick Joseph O'Neill, of no fixed address, was one of three masked men who forced their way into the victim's home in Ardoyne in November 2010.
The man was shot several times in the legs and groin in front of his mother, who fought back with kitchen knives.
The dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann claimed responsibility for the shooting shortly after it took place.
October 2016
Image captionJoe Reilly was shot dead in a house at Glenwood Court
West Belfast man Joe Reilly, 43, is shot dead in his Glenwood Court, Poleglass home on 20 October.
It is understood a second man who was in the house was tied up by the gang. The shooting was the second in the small estate in less than a week - the other victim was shot in the leg.
Police later say they believe the the murder was carried out by a paramilitary organisation and there may have been a drugs link.
September 2016
Four men are charged on 26 September after police recovered an armour-piercing mortar during searches in Lurgan.
They were arrested on 21 September by police investigating dissident republican activity in the area.
Three men, aged 22, 24 and 46, are charged with targeting a former member of the security forces in the Craigavon area.
A fourth, aged 22, is charged with the attempted murder of police officers.
Dissident republicans form a new political party called Saoradh - the Irish word for liberation.
Several high-profile dissidents from both sides of the border were among about 150 people at its first conference in Newry.
Image copyrightFACEBOOK
Image captionCiarán Maxwell was arrested after searches in County Antrim and Devon
Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell appears in court in England charged with terrorism, fraud and drugs offences.
The charges include making explosives and storing them in hides in England and Northern Ireland.
He is also accused of possession of an adapted PSNI pass card and items of PSNI uniform. He denies the charges and is remanded in custody.
On 6 September, searches in County Antrim linked to the investigation of Mr Maxwell turn up a "significant amount of terrorist material", police say.
August 2016
On 24 August serving Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell, who is originally from Larne, is arrested in Somerset.
His arrest is connected to the discovery of two arms dumps near Larne earlier in the year.
The 30-year-old is suspected of preparing for acts of terrorism.
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionThe weapons were found in the grounds of a former convent on the outskirts of Lurgan
A major arms haul believed to be connected to dissident republicans is uncovered in County Armagh on 5 August.
Firearms and munitions were found by police during a two-day search operation in the grounds of a former convent on the outskirts of Lurgan.
The weapons that were discovered are believed to belong to the group known to as the New IRA.
July 2016
Police say they are investigating if a bomb found in Lisburn on 31 July had fallen from a vehicle.
A controlled explosion was carried out on the object after it was found in Market Place.
It was made safe and removed for examination during a security alert which lasted several hours.
June 2016
Police believe that pipe bombs found in Londonderry on 17 June could be linked to "violent dissident republican terrorism".
The two devices were discovered in the Highmoor Road area of the city.
May 2016
The discovery of arms in a County Antrim forest on 17 May was one of the most significant in recent years, police say.
A "terrorist hide" was uncovered at Capanagh Forest near Larne after two members of the public found suspicious objects in the woods on Saturday.
Some of the items found included an armour-piercing improvised rocket and two anti-personnel mines.
The threat level from Northern Ireland-related terrorism in Great Britain is raised from moderate to substantial.
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionTwo Claymore mines were among the arms found in Capanagh Forest
It means an attack in England, Scotland or Wales is "a strong possibility".
Home Secretary Theresa May says the level, set by security service MI5, "reflects the continuing threat from dissident republican activity".
Fifteen men are arrested in Strabane after paramilitary displays at the funeral of Dublin murder victim Michael Barr.
Barr, said to be a member of the New IRA, was shot dead in the Sunset House pub in Dublin on 25 April.
April 2016
A man dies after being shot three times in the leg in an alleyway at Butler Place, north Belfast, on Friday 15 April.
Michael McGibbon, 33, was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, where he later died.
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionPolice say Mr McGibbons killing carried the hallmarks of a paramilitary murder
Police have said Mr McGibbon had contacted them to say two masked men had arrived at his house on the evening of Thursday 14 April.
The men asked him to come out of the house but he refused and the men told him they would come back.
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionThe shooting took place in an alleyway at Butler Place in north Belfast
Mr McGibbon's murder has been referred to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.
Police say his killing carried the hallmarks of a paramilitary murder.
March 2016
Image copyrightISMAY FAMILY
Image captionAdrian Ismay was the 32nd prison staff member to be murdered in Northern Ireland because of his job
A murder investigation begins into the death of murder of prison officer Adrian Ismay, 11 days after he was injured in a booby-trap bomb attack in east Belfast.
The device exploded under the 52-year-old officer's van as he drove over a speed ramp at Hillsborough Drive on 4 March.
Days later, a dissident republican group widely referred to as the new IRA said it carried out the attack.
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionA bomb disposal expert examines the prison officer's van after the explosion in Hillsborough Drive, east Belfast
In the immediate aftermath of the bombing, the Police Service of Northern Ireland say they are "deeply concerned" about the threat posed by dissident republicans ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising later in the month.
Mr Ismay was thought to have been making a good recovery from his injuries, but was rushed back to hospital on 15 March, where he died.
A post-mortem examination found his death was as a "direct result of the injuries" he sustained in the bomb.
February 2016
In a statement to the BBC, a man claiming to speak on behalf of the Continuity IRA (CIRA) claims its members were responsible for a fatal gun attack on a Dublin hotel during a weigh-in for a boxing match, but Irish police (Gardaí) say they believe the motive for the killing was a criminal feud.
The alleged CIRA spokesman claimed to the BBC that its members had shot dead 33-year-old David Byrne because he had been involved in the killing of Real IRA leader Alan Ryan in Dublin in 2012.
Image copyrightAFP
Image captionA dissident republican group claimed responsibility for a gun attack at a boxing weigh-in event, but Irish police say they believe it was a criminal feud
Days later, police fears of a criminal feud appear to be realised as taxi driver Eddie Hutch is shot dead in a suspected revenge attack in his flat in Dublin's north inner city.
In mid-February, The Sunday Times newspaper alleges that a CIRA paramilitary from Northern Ireland is believed to have been among the six gunmeninvolved in the hotel shooting at the boxing weigh-in.
On the last day of the month, Alan Ryan's brother, Vinnie Ryan, is shot dead in Finglas, north Dublin. Irish police say Vinnie Ryan was also a well-known dissident republican, but they say they are not linking his murder to the gangland feud that killed David Byrne and Eddie Hutch.
December 2015
Dissident republicans have been dealt "a significant blow" by a weapons and explosives find in the Republic of Ireland, the Irish police (Gardaí) say.
The weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, mortars, detonators and other bomb parts, were discovered in County Monaghan, close to the border with Rosslea in County Fermanagh, on 1 December.
Insp James O'Leary, of Monaghan police station, said the weapons would have posed "a very significant threat to security personnel on both sides of the border".
Image copyrightPHILIP FITZPATRICK
Image captionIrish police found a range of weapons in County Monaghan
On 15 December, a further arms find, described as a "significant cache" by Irish state broadcaster RTÉ, is made in County Louth.
It has reported that the haul included AK47 assault rifles, mortars, explosive material, detonators, other bomb components and at least one revolver.
It follows police searches at a home and lands in Jenkinstown, close to the border with Northern Ireland.
November 2015
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionA number of shots hit the passenger window of a police car in an attack in west Belfast
A gun attack on police officers in west Belfast on 26 November, in which up to eight shots were fired, is being treated attempted murder.
A number of shots struck the passenger side of a police car parked at Rossnareen Avenue.
Two officers who were in the car were not injured but were said to have been badly shaken.
Image captionSome of the items discovered during searches in west Belfast
Police describe it as a "mindless, reckless attempt to kill officers".
On 23 November, police seize bomb-making components and ammunition during searches at Broom Close in Twinbrook and Glenwood Walk, Poleglass, in west Belfast.
The haul includes 700 rounds of assorted ammunition, seven mercury tilt switches, detonator cord, firework powder and an assault rifle magazine.
October 2015
The threat to the lives of police officers from dissident republicans in the north west of Northern Ireland remains severe, a senior officer says on 6 October.
Supt Mark McEwan said that from September 2014 there had been 15 bomb incidents in the Derry City and Strabane District council area.
They included seven attacks on the police.
On 10 October, a bomb is found in the grounds of a Londonderry ahead of a police recruitment event.
The police recruitment event was cancelled. Two other police recruitment events in Belfast and Omagh went ahead despite bomb alerts at the planned venues.
On 15 October, police said they believe that a bomb found in north Belfast may have fallen from a car belonging to a man with connections to the armed forces.
Image captionPolice said the bomb in north Belfast "had the potential to cause serious injury or death"
The device was discovered at Linden Gardens, off the Cliftonville Road.
It is not clear if the intended target was passing through the area or visiting someone there.
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said a young boy had kicked the bomb while it lay on the street.
On 16 October police said a "military-style hand grenade" was thrown at a patrol in Belfast as officers responded to reports of anti-social behaviour.
Police say the device, which failed to explode, was thrown at officers near Pottingers Quay.
Dissident republicans were suspected of being responsible for the attack.
drt4lfe
Active Member
Think what could have happened or could still be going on if Indians in America took up Arms rather than the whiskey bottle....
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
And even TODAY on the 11th of the 11th on remembrance Sunday at the Memorial Sunday parades in the UK when the nation gathers to remember the fallen at war memorials across the nation when Veterans and Families, Women and Chiildren, dignitaries and citizens gather at 11AM those brave IRA FREEDOM FIGHTERS (sic)as they call themselves left a pipe bomb hidden at a war memorial in Omargh hoping to kill as many people as possibe. Fortunately it did not go off.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41960294
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41960294
Arcticdude
Top Poster
What are you talking about? The Indians did take up arms. There were many Indian wars throughout our history. They had some great warriors, but the world was changing and they just got in the way. Now days they're either mostly on the dole or own casinos.
Royal Marine involved ? You can bet He didn't assemble that crappy looking pipe bomb . Their trained better than that .I understand all thats left now of the IRA is a left wing socialist group .
Psalm7, Today at 10:03 AMReport
Afraid not.
Timeline of dissident republican activity
June 2017
Image copyrightJUSTIN KERNOGHAN
Image captionChristine Connor said she was "at war" with the PSNI
A woman described as a lone-wolf dissident republican is jailed for 16 years for attempting to murder police officers.
Christine Connor, 31, posed as a Swedish model online to lure men into helping her kill officers.
She admitted a number of terror charges, including some related to a homemade grenade thrown at a police vehicle in 2013.
A few days earlier, the Police Service of Northern Ireland reveals that about 16 officers either move home or have special security measures installed at their house every year because of threats against them.
Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris says the threats are predominantly from dissident republicans but also from loyalist paramilitaries.
February 2017
Image copyrightMETROPOLITAN POLICE
Image captionCharges suggested that Ciarán Maxwell first became involved in terrorism in 2011
Royal Marine Ciarán Maxwell pleads guilty to offences related to dissident republican terrorism, including bomb-making and storing stolen weapons.
The County Antrim man had compiled a library of terrorism documents, including instructions on how to make explosives and tactics used by terrorist organisations.
He also had maps, plans and lists of potential targets for a terrorist attack, and a stash of explosives in purpose-built hides in England and Northern Ireland.
His sentencing is currently taking place at the Old Bailey in London.
February 2017
Image copyrightPRESS EYE
Image captionThe bomb exploded as it was being examined by the Army
A bomb explodes outside the home of a serving police officer in Londonderry on 22 February as Army experts try to defuse it.
The device, which police described as more intricate than a pipe bomb, was reportedly discovered under a car in Culmore in the city.
Children were in the area at the time, police said.
A gun attack on a 16-year-old boy in west Belfast on 16 February was "child abuse," a senior police officer said.
The attack followed a similar one the previous night, when a man was shot in the legs close to a benefits office on the Falls Road.
January 2017
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionThe shooting happened at a petrol station on the Crumlin Road
A police officer is injured in a gun attack at a garage on north Belfast's Crumlin Road on 22 January.
Police said automatic gunfire was sprayed across the garage forecourt in a "crazy" attack.
A 36-year-old man is arrested and police say the main line of inquiry is "violent dissident republicans".
The number of paramilitary-style shootings in west Belfast doubled in 2016 compared to the previous year, according to police figures.
The figures do not take into account three shootings in Belfast's Turf Lodge area since the start of January.
On 15 January, police say a bomb discovered during a security operation in Poleglass, west Belfast, was "designed to kill or seriously injure police officers".
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionDamien McLaughlin is due to stand trial in February
A judge on 6 January revokes the bail of a County Tyrone man facing trial on charges linked to the murder of prison officer David Black.
Damien Joseph McLaughlin, 40, of Kilmascally Road near Ardboe, is due to stand trial in February.
The court is told Mr McLaughlin had not been seen by police since November.
December 2016
A 45-year-old mechanic caught at a bomb-making factory on a farm will spend 11 years behind bars.
Barry Petticrew was arrested in October 2014 after undercover police surveillance on farm buildings near Kinawley, County Fermanagh.
Police found pipes, timer units, ammunition and high grade explosives in the buildings.
Image captionExplosive devices, improvised rockets, detonators, timing units and Semtex were discovered by Irish police
On 6 December, a 25-year-old dissident republican is jailed in Dublin for five years.
Donal Ó Coisdealbha from Killester, north Dublin was arrested on explosive charges in the run-up to the visit of Prince Charles to Ireland in 2015.
He was arrested during a Garda operation when explosive devices, improvised rockets, detonators, timing units and Semtex were discovered.
November 2016
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionFollowing the sentencing, police released a photo of the heavily bloodstained scene of the shooting
A man who admitted taking part in a paramilitary shooting in Belfast is sentenced to five years in jail and a further five years on licence.
Patrick Joseph O'Neill, of no fixed address, was one of three masked men who forced their way into the victim's home in Ardoyne in November 2010.
The man was shot several times in the legs and groin in front of his mother, who fought back with kitchen knives.
The dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann claimed responsibility for the shooting shortly after it took place.
October 2016
Image captionJoe Reilly was shot dead in a house at Glenwood Court
West Belfast man Joe Reilly, 43, is shot dead in his Glenwood Court, Poleglass home on 20 October.
It is understood a second man who was in the house was tied up by the gang. The shooting was the second in the small estate in less than a week - the other victim was shot in the leg.
Police later say they believe the the murder was carried out by a paramilitary organisation and there may have been a drugs link.
September 2016
Four men are charged on 26 September after police recovered an armour-piercing mortar during searches in Lurgan.
They were arrested on 21 September by police investigating dissident republican activity in the area.
Three men, aged 22, 24 and 46, are charged with targeting a former member of the security forces in the Craigavon area.
A fourth, aged 22, is charged with the attempted murder of police officers.
Dissident republicans form a new political party called Saoradh - the Irish word for liberation.
Several high-profile dissidents from both sides of the border were among about 150 people at its first conference in Newry.
Image copyrightFACEBOOK
Image captionCiarán Maxwell was arrested after searches in County Antrim and Devon
Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell appears in court in England charged with terrorism, fraud and drugs offences.
The charges include making explosives and storing them in hides in England and Northern Ireland.
He is also accused of possession of an adapted PSNI pass card and items of PSNI uniform. He denies the charges and is remanded in custody.
On 6 September, searches in County Antrim linked to the investigation of Mr Maxwell turn up a "significant amount of terrorist material", police say.
August 2016
On 24 August serving Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell, who is originally from Larne, is arrested in Somerset.
His arrest is connected to the discovery of two arms dumps near Larne earlier in the year.
The 30-year-old is suspected of preparing for acts of terrorism.
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionThe weapons were found in the grounds of a former convent on the outskirts of Lurgan
A major arms haul believed to be connected to dissident republicans is uncovered in County Armagh on 5 August.
Firearms and munitions were found by police during a two-day search operation in the grounds of a former convent on the outskirts of Lurgan.
The weapons that were discovered are believed to belong to the group known to as the New IRA.
July 2016
Police say they are investigating if a bomb found in Lisburn on 31 July had fallen from a vehicle.
A controlled explosion was carried out on the object after it was found in Market Place.
It was made safe and removed for examination during a security alert which lasted several hours.
June 2016
Police believe that pipe bombs found in Londonderry on 17 June could be linked to "violent dissident republican terrorism".
The two devices were discovered in the Highmoor Road area of the city.
May 2016
The discovery of arms in a County Antrim forest on 17 May was one of the most significant in recent years, police say.
A "terrorist hide" was uncovered at Capanagh Forest near Larne after two members of the public found suspicious objects in the woods on Saturday.
Some of the items found included an armour-piercing improvised rocket and two anti-personnel mines.
The threat level from Northern Ireland-related terrorism in Great Britain is raised from moderate to substantial.
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionTwo Claymore mines were among the arms found in Capanagh Forest
It means an attack in England, Scotland or Wales is "a strong possibility".
Home Secretary Theresa May says the level, set by security service MI5, "reflects the continuing threat from dissident republican activity".
Fifteen men are arrested in Strabane after paramilitary displays at the funeral of Dublin murder victim Michael Barr.
Barr, said to be a member of the New IRA, was shot dead in the Sunset House pub in Dublin on 25 April.
April 2016
A man dies after being shot three times in the leg in an alleyway at Butler Place, north Belfast, on Friday 15 April.
Michael McGibbon, 33, was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, where he later died.
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionPolice say Mr McGibbons killing carried the hallmarks of a paramilitary murder
Police have said Mr McGibbon had contacted them to say two masked men had arrived at his house on the evening of Thursday 14 April.
The men asked him to come out of the house but he refused and the men told him they would come back.
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionThe shooting took place in an alleyway at Butler Place in north Belfast
Mr McGibbon's murder has been referred to the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.
Police say his killing carried the hallmarks of a paramilitary murder.
March 2016
Image copyrightISMAY FAMILY
Image captionAdrian Ismay was the 32nd prison staff member to be murdered in Northern Ireland because of his job
A murder investigation begins into the death of murder of prison officer Adrian Ismay, 11 days after he was injured in a booby-trap bomb attack in east Belfast.
The device exploded under the 52-year-old officer's van as he drove over a speed ramp at Hillsborough Drive on 4 March.
Days later, a dissident republican group widely referred to as the new IRA said it carried out the attack.
Image copyrightPACEMAKER
Image captionA bomb disposal expert examines the prison officer's van after the explosion in Hillsborough Drive, east Belfast
In the immediate aftermath of the bombing, the Police Service of Northern Ireland say they are "deeply concerned" about the threat posed by dissident republicans ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising later in the month.
Mr Ismay was thought to have been making a good recovery from his injuries, but was rushed back to hospital on 15 March, where he died.
A post-mortem examination found his death was as a "direct result of the injuries" he sustained in the bomb.
February 2016
In a statement to the BBC, a man claiming to speak on behalf of the Continuity IRA (CIRA) claims its members were responsible for a fatal gun attack on a Dublin hotel during a weigh-in for a boxing match, but Irish police (Gardaí) say they believe the motive for the killing was a criminal feud.
The alleged CIRA spokesman claimed to the BBC that its members had shot dead 33-year-old David Byrne because he had been involved in the killing of Real IRA leader Alan Ryan in Dublin in 2012.
Image copyrightAFP
Image captionA dissident republican group claimed responsibility for a gun attack at a boxing weigh-in event, but Irish police say they believe it was a criminal feud
Days later, police fears of a criminal feud appear to be realised as taxi driver Eddie Hutch is shot dead in a suspected revenge attack in his flat in Dublin's north inner city.
In mid-February, The Sunday Times newspaper alleges that a CIRA paramilitary from Northern Ireland is believed to have been among the six gunmeninvolved in the hotel shooting at the boxing weigh-in.
On the last day of the month, Alan Ryan's brother, Vinnie Ryan, is shot dead in Finglas, north Dublin. Irish police say Vinnie Ryan was also a well-known dissident republican, but they say they are not linking his murder to the gangland feud that killed David Byrne and Eddie Hutch.
December 2015
Dissident republicans have been dealt "a significant blow" by a weapons and explosives find in the Republic of Ireland, the Irish police (Gardaí) say.
The weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, mortars, detonators and other bomb parts, were discovered in County Monaghan, close to the border with Rosslea in County Fermanagh, on 1 December.
Insp James O'Leary, of Monaghan police station, said the weapons would have posed "a very significant threat to security personnel on both sides of the border".
Image copyrightPHILIP FITZPATRICK
Image captionIrish police found a range of weapons in County Monaghan
On 15 December, a further arms find, described as a "significant cache" by Irish state broadcaster RTÉ, is made in County Louth.
It has reported that the haul included AK47 assault rifles, mortars, explosive material, detonators, other bomb components and at least one revolver.
It follows police searches at a home and lands in Jenkinstown, close to the border with Northern Ireland.
November 2015
Image copyrightPSNI
Image captionA number of shots hit the passenger window of a police car in an attack in west Belfast
A gun attack on police officers in west Belfast on 26 November, in which up to eight shots were fired, is being treated attempted murder.
A number of shots struck the passenger side of a police car parked at Rossnareen Avenue.
Two officers who were in the car were not injured but were said to have been badly shaken.
Image captionSome of the items discovered during searches in west Belfast
Police describe it as a "mindless, reckless attempt to kill officers".
On 23 November, police seize bomb-making components and ammunition during searches at Broom Close in Twinbrook and Glenwood Walk, Poleglass, in west Belfast.
The haul includes 700 rounds of assorted ammunition, seven mercury tilt switches, detonator cord, firework powder and an assault rifle magazine.
October 2015
The threat to the lives of police officers from dissident republicans in the north west of Northern Ireland remains severe, a senior officer says on 6 October.
Supt Mark McEwan said that from September 2014 there had been 15 bomb incidents in the Derry City and Strabane District council area.
They included seven attacks on the police.
On 10 October, a bomb is found in the grounds of a Londonderry ahead of a police recruitment event.
The police recruitment event was cancelled. Two other police recruitment events in Belfast and Omagh went ahead despite bomb alerts at the planned venues.
On 15 October, police said they believe that a bomb found in north Belfast may have fallen from a car belonging to a man with connections to the armed forces.
Image captionPolice said the bomb in north Belfast "had the potential to cause serious injury or death"
The device was discovered at Linden Gardens, off the Cliftonville Road.
It is not clear if the intended target was passing through the area or visiting someone there.
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said a young boy had kicked the bomb while it lay on the street.
On 16 October police said a "military-style hand grenade" was thrown at a patrol in Belfast as officers responded to reports of anti-social behaviour.
Police say the device, which failed to explode, was thrown at officers near Pottingers Quay.
Dissident republicans were suspected of being responsible for the attack.
That News not making it out anymore , while I was a Youngster the IRA was on the News almost every night .
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
its not politically correct any more, After Tony Blair surrendered to the IRA letting mass murderers free from jail after only 18 months he even made TWO IRA commanders ministers in his government. Typical Labour y'see , even today Labours current leader Jeremy Corbyn calls IRA, HAMAS and PLO terrorists " Friends" ( HIS OWN WORDS) and his deputy John McDonnell admits he is a communist. Not only are Labour PRO terrorists but they also get caught out very frequently as being anti Semites. some labour MPs even refer to the US as the Great Satan.
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130mm howitzer exploding little over 70 meters away in Chad early 80s, very little hearing in my right ear and constant ringing from time to time too this day.
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