Pipe bomb attack in north Belfast
10/31/01

A woman was unhurt after a pipe bomb exploded in the back of a house in a Catholic area of
north Belfast last night.

The RUC said the woman suffered cuts to her arms following the blast at Newington St but
did not require hospital treatment.

It is believed that the device was thrown from an alleyway which joins the loyalist Tigers Bay
area.

Two hurt in paramilitary shootings
10/31/01

Two men were today recovering in hospital after being injured in a paramilitary-style shooting
in Co Down.

The incident is believed to have taken place in a field at Ballyreagh Rd, Newtownards, before
7pm last night.

Loyalist paramilitaries were thought to have been responsible for the shootings of the men,
who are both in their 30s.

One was hit in both knees and the other in one leg but neither of their conditions was
believed to be serious.

Meanwhile, a woman suffered cuts to her arms when a device, believed to be a pipe bomb,
exploded shortly after 9pm last night.

The woman was treated by a GP and did not require hospital treatment.

In a separate incident a 41-year-old man was today due to appear in court in the city
charged with riotous behaviour following disturbances in north Belfast's Duncairn Gardens
yesterday.


Latest UDA Holy Cross death threat
10/31/01

Using the cover name of the Red hand Defenders, the UDA this week extended its death
threat to include more pupils and parents of Holy Cross Primary School.

On Tuesday morning, a number of parents at Holy Cross School were informed by the RUC
that both themselves and their children had been threatened with "military action" by the Red
Hand Defenders.

The RHD threatened action against children and parents if they walked along the Ardoyne
Road to Holy Cross Girls Primary School.

"Everyone knows that this threat, in reality, originates from the UDA, an organisation which
has been responsible for hundreds of bomb and gun attacks on nationalists in North Belfast
this year," said Sinn FŽin councillor Margaret McClenaghan.

"This cowardly threat against schoolchildren and their parents must be lifted immediately. I
call upon anybody with influence within the unionist community to do all in their power to
have this threat lifted. I would also call on nationalists to remain extremely vigilant."

Meanwhile, Martin Monaghan of the Right to Educatin Group has accused the RUC of
preventing parents whose children are due to sit the 11+ from attending a meeting at the
school on Wednesday afternoon.

Monaghan said: "It is important that parents and children attend this meeting. Our children
are already under enormous stress from the loyalist blockade without now encountering a
further blockade from the RUC.

"This is the second time the RUC have blocked the parents from going to the school to
attend 11+ meetings. The issue is clear; no one, loyalist or RUC have the right to prevent us
from going to school."

TROUBLE CONTINUES IN NORTH BELFAST
10/28/01 16:00 EST
Twenty-three RUC officers and a Catholic man have been injured in fresh trouble in one of
the flashpoint areas of north Belfast. The incident occurred when they were attacked by
blast bombs, which were thrown by loyalists on the Limestone Road.

Limestone Road is one of several flashpoint areas in north Belfast where there has been
sectarian conflict since the summer. Local people say a Catholic woman was attacked by a
group of loyalists near her home around 3.00am local-time this morning.

They say she was beaten with sticks and hammers and left unconscious. The mother of five
received facial injuries and a suspected broken jaw and was taken to hospital for treatment.

This morning as Catholics and Protestants were attending their respective church services,
a blast bomb was thrown from the Loyalist Tiger's Bay area and a 22 year-old man received
a lip injury.