Chronology of Continuity Irish Republican Army Actions - 2001

2001

• 19 July : A bomb was thrown from a car and up to six shots fired during an attack on Castlewellan RUC base in County Down. The station suffered minor damage but there were no injuries.
• 2 August: Former Social Democratic and Labour Party MLA Eamonn O'Neill had his family car attacked with CIRA slogans in Castlewellan, County Down. It is believed the attack happened after O'Neill criticised a CIRA attack on the village's RUC base in the weeks previous.
• 30 October : It is believed that the CIRA was behind the assassination of Charles Folliard (30) in County Tyrone. The ex-Ulster Defence Association member was gunned down in front of his 16 year old girlfriend on the doorstep of her Strabane home.
• 30 October : Two gunmen, claiming to be from the CIRA, hijacked a bus in Belfast and ordered the driver to drive to Woodbourne RUC base. The men fled leaving a holdall estimated to contain 5 kg of explosives. The security forces tried to defuse the bomb but it exploded during the operation. Damage was restricted to the bus and the gates of the base, and there were no injuries.
• 16 December : The CIRA claimed responsibility for exploding a small bomb outside a Customs and Excise office on the Killyhevlin Industrial Estate in County Fermanagh. A telephoned warning had been sent. The office was unmanned at the time and there were no injuries.