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THE TROUBLES
RIGHT - Bomb attack on the Hamill Hotel in Great Victoria Street
Friday 19th January 1973 Single shot fired A single shot has been fired at a sand bagged observation post at the rear of Dungiven RUC barracks. No one was hurt in the attack.said that a man would be appearing in a special court in the town. Saturday 20th January 1973 Man dies in Dublin car bomb A car bomb has exploded in Sackville Place, Dublin, almost at the exact spot where a bomb killed two bus men a month ago. In the latest attack, which has happened as a ruby international was underway at Landsdown Road, there are initial reports that one man has been killed a busman has been seriously injured. Two men were seen running away from the area and got into another car. According to eye witnesses, a bookies shop in the narrow street took the full force of the blast. Hundreds of shoppers ran in panic and that men and women were on the verge of collapse. Traffic piled up in the city centre. A city wide search for the bombers has begun and customs and security personnel along the border have been asked to keep a look out for the bombers. The hunt is further complicated by the fact that thousands of people crossed thee border for the All Blacks rugby international in Dublin. Saturday 20th January 1973 Bomb thrown into Belfast house A bomb has exploded in the Lower Falls area of Belfast shortly before midnight when the occupants of a white car tossed a small device into the hallway of a house in Cullingtree Road. The house holder was not at home at the time but his wife and children were treated for shock. The hallway was badly damaged and windows in nearby premises were smashed. Around the same time as the Falls bombing three shots were fired from the Lepper Street area of the New Lodge entered the upstairs room of a dwelling house in Duncairn Gardens. A 17-year-old youth who was upstairs in his bedroom was hit in the left hand by a bullet.
Saturday 20th January 1973 Teenager died from gunshot wounds A Dundalk inquest has been told that a Belfast teenager died in County Louth from a gunshot wound. David McAuley, aged 15, of Fairfield Street, was taken by car to Dundalk after being shot in Belfast on 19th February. Two days later a hearse bringing him to Belfast was stopped by troops at Banbridge and a certificate accompanying the body issued by Louth County Hospital said that the youth had died of “a non-infectious disease�. The inquest jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, that the death was caused by shock and bleeding from a wound to the abdomen. The wound had been caused by a gunshot.
Saturday 20th January 1973 Rocket attack in Derry Soldiers in an Army Ferret Scout car have come under attack while on patrol in the Shantallow area of Derry. The Soviet made rocket struck their vehicle but the rocket glanced off the turret before the second explosion. The Saturday 20th January 1973 vehicles had been travelling along Racecourse Road at the Southern troops to get border base time and were at the junction of Shantallow Road and The Minister for Justice in the South has announced that Irish Drumleck Drive when the attack was made. Soldiers then troops are soon to be based at Fort Dunree, Buncranna, County mounted a search for the launcher. They believe the rocket Donegal. There role will be to provide border security. was fired from a nearby house.