#OnThisDay in 1987 the IRA murdered Eamon Maguire, 33, employed, former member of Sinn Féin. Body found shot & dumped wearing blue jacket, yards from S Armagh border. IRA said he was an informer. Gun used multiple times incl Kingsmills Massacre independent.ie/regionals/argu… #OTD

#Remembered 1/9/1975, Thomas Taylor, 45, married father of 3, Protestant, TV Repair business owner murdered by Irish Republican terrorists at his shop, Donegall St, Belfast. Wife alerted police when he didn`t come home. He was found shot in the head, lying in his shop toilet #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1975 the IRA murdered John Cathcart, 37, married father. Protestant, shot in back & head on office floor, National Tyre Services, Frederick St, Belfast. Murderers ordered 2 staff (both Protestant) to lie down & demanded money. Relative said he`d been threatened #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1971 the IRA planted bombs in Belfast city centre which exploded injuring 40 plus people and badly damaging the Ulster Unionist Party office at Glengall Street, Belfast. Innocent passers-by were injured and cars damaged. Many IRA bombs on subsequent dates in the area. #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1991 the IRA held Protestant siblings hostage in their home, beat, abducted 2 & forced them to try & drive a tractor twice, with bomb laden trailer to a nearby Army checkpoint, Annaghmartin, Fermanagh. The tractors bogged. Children then sent home without shoes #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1971, the IRA murdered Francis (Frank) William Robert P Veitch, 23, DoE employee/UDR, shot 8am from passing car near a sentry post by a hail of sub-machinegun fire at Mullagarrow, Kinawley Royal Ulster Constabulary Station & Army base, Fermanagh. Died instantly #OTD

OnThisDayTheIRA Rev Carson at funeral said he believed Mr Veitch "had a very pleasant vision of the kind of Ulster there would be.... something that was passing. He did not see 2 year old babies killed, or maimed office girls, marked for life. He saw this awful time as something that would end"

#OnThisDay in 1971 the IRA murdered Angela Gallagher, 17 months old, shot while visiting granny`s with her sister, by a bullet fired at the Army, from a grey Ford Cortina, in which murderers fled along Falls Rd, W Belfast. Bullet went though 8 year old sister`s clothing also #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1980 the IRA murdered Ross Hearst, 52. Married father of 5. Protestant farmer abducted Co Monaghan, leaving off Mr Bothwell from Royal Black religious meeting #OTD. Found shot & car burnt inside Armagh border 4/9. IRA murdered daughter 8/10/77. Soraghan in court

#OnThisDay in 1985 the IRA launched a mortar bomb attack at 7:50am on Enniskillen RUC police station/training depot, injuring 30 people; many were civilians. The mortar bombs, some widely off target also damaged cars, wrecked a nearby garage & shattered surrounding property #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1976 Sarah McGarvey (68) collapsed & died after her home at Mill Street, Newtownstewart was evacuated at night, due to an IRA bomb planted at Central Motor Works garage. The widow was visiting her daughter on a weekend visit from Belfast x.com/onthisdaypira/… #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1988 Catholic Bishop Cathal Daly spoke about orchestrated IR street violence carried out under orders, including from SF activists, following the approval to extradite to NI, 1983 Maze escaper Robert Russell, captured & recaptured in RoI x.com/onthisdaypira/… #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1981 the IRA murdered Sohan Singh (Fred) Virdee, 20 & seriously injured John Lunt. Off-duty soldiers lured from Robin`s Nest pub, Lisburn to a flat at Stranmillis. Murderers used stolen pistol. Females Taylor (jailed) & O`Neill charged. #OTD books.google.co.uk/books?id=er3Hf…

OnThisDayTheIRA The Irish News Belfast Telegraph Belfast News Letter Sohan Virdee -Female awoken in upstairs flat, saw woman lock & leave. She saw blood, was a key holder & gained entry immediately to scene. Relatives travelled from as far away as Nairobi & Sweden to attend Mr Virdee`s funeral. Supergrass Morgan & alleged gunman, Davidson in Court

#OnThisDay in 1973 the IRA murdered Patrick Duffy, 21. Catholic, farm worker who drove his tractor over a landmine on verge, along Belcoo/Garrison Rd, Fermanagh. RUC had just dealt with hoax bomb in a box with flashing light & sign, in middle of road. x.com/onthisdaypira/… #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1978 the IRA murdered William Henry McAlpine, 49, Factory engineer/off duty Army Cadets UK Major (voluntary youth group sponsored by MOD, made of single units) Orange Order member, shot driving car past St Mary`s Catholic chapel, Newry. Wife just out of hospital #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1975 the IRA murdered Gesiena Gertrude Loohuis, 39, tour manager from Amsterdam & Robert Anthony Lloyd, 42, Ladbroke club manager, from Staines, Middlesex. 63 injured, some seriously. Bomb at Park Lane Hotel, London, exploded at 12:18pm #OTD x.com/onthisdaypira/…

OnThisDayTheIRA Express & Star The Journal Gemeente Amsterdam Hilton Hotel - IRA terrorists murdered 2 (incl a Dutch lady) Among injured was married father, Mr Said Vakili, 34 from Tehran, who`d a deep hole in his leg & described the IRA bombers as "mentally sick" also Mr Francesco Lanharis, married, Civil Engineer from San Paulo, Brazil,

#OnThisDay in 1990 the IRA planted 2 bombs at Harland & Wolff, in engine room of ship RFA Fort Victoria launched 4 mths earlier. Explosion caused flooding & damage. 2nd bomb defused #OTD. 2 years later it became operational again. issuu.com/navynews/docs/…… mapio.net/wiki/Q7276477-…

(Post from Remembered Today-NI) "The hands of violence brought the British soldiers to the streets of Northern Ireland & the hands of violence took their lives & the hands of violence made even the unintended consequences." Written poem: Sheila, Belfast Primary School, 1972. #OTD