Tag: IRA – Irish Republican Army

Man Arrested Over 1996 Bombing of Manchester by Provisional IRA

Greater Manchester Police have arrested a man in connection with the bombing of the city centre in 1996, which was claimed at the time by the Provisional IRA. He was arrested at Birmingham Airport on Thursday night on suspicion of terrorist offences. On June 15, 1996, two men parked a lorry near Manchester’s Arndale shopping…


Family of 1974 IRA Pub Attack in Birmingham to Sue Police and Alleged Bomber

The family of a woman who was killed in the bombing of a Birmingham pub by the Provisional IRA in 1974 has sued West Midlands Police and a man they claim was one of the bombers. Margaret Smith, whose 18-year-old daughter Maxine Hambleton was killed in the Tavern in the Town pub on Nov. 21,…