Chronology of Continuity Irish Republican Army Actions - 2009

2009

  • 12 January: The CIRA fired shots at a house on the Grosvenor Road, Belfast.
  • 14 January: The CIRA claimed responsibility for destroying a JCB digger at Casement Park, Belfast. It was destroyed after the contractor refused to pay protection money to the group.
  • 29 January: The IMC blamed the CIRA for an armed robbery in Dungannon, County Tyrone.
  • 10 February: The CIRA is believed to have been responsible for leaving three pipe bombs on Shiels Street, off the Falls Road in Belfast. They were made safe by the British Army.
  • 10 February: The IMC blamed the CIRA for a hoax bomb alert in Armagh town.
  • 3 March: The CIRA was blamed for the discovery of pipe bombs at a house in the Phibsboro area of Dublin.
  • 9 March: The CIRA claimed responsibility for shooting dead a PSNI officer in Craigavon. The officer was shot by a sniper as he and a colleague investigated a complaint of broken windows in a nearby home. This was the first police fatality in Northern Ireland since 1998.
  • 17 May: A member of the CIRA fired a volley of shots over the grave of Jim Gallagher in Derry.
  • 15 June: The CIRA claimed responsibility for a failed bomb attack against the PSNI base in Armagh town. A bomb was thrown at the base but failed to detonate properly.
  • 13 July: An armed CIRA member appeared at a riot in Armagh town.
  • 21 September: The IMC claimed the CIRA was responsible for the armed robbery of a bank in Belleek, County Donegal.
  • 12 October: The IMC blamed the CIRA for the punishment shooting of a man in his home in Belfast.
  • 20 November: The CIRA claimed responsibility for shooting a man three-times in the leg in a punishment attack in Belfast.
  • 23 December: The IMC blamed the CIRA for the punishment shooting of a man in Belfast. The man had been convicted for a role in the death of a shopkeeper two years earlier.

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