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Edward Treanor, a 31-year-old civil servant, was enjoying a New Year's Eve drink with his new girlfriend at her pub, the Clifton Tavern in Catholic North Belfast. At 9:07 p.m. two masked men, one armed with a submachine gun, the other with a pistol, burst in and began firing indiscriminately at the customers. Treanor was hit in the head and died before he could greet the new year--a new year that starts off with an ill omen for peace in Northern Ireland...
Catholics in the province had been bracing for attacks ever since the Dec. 27 murder of Billy Wright, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (L.V.F.), a fringe paramilitary group that is staunchly opposed to the interparty peace talks under way in Belfast. Wright, a hotheaded, macho killer, was gunned down in a daring execution-style murder inside the Maze prison by members of the Irish National Liberation Army, a violent Catholic splinter organization that is also strongly opposed to the talks, and has never agreed to join the cease-fire agreed to by the I.R.A...
...Mowlam's 90-minute visit with convicts like Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair, who once said that the only Catholic he'd ever had in a car was a dead one, angered many in the British press who saw the visit as a legitimizing of the terrorists. The Belfast Telegraph harrumphed that "Dr. Mowlam may secure a short-term gain today, but the worry must be that she has demoted the cause of democracy in Northern Ireland." Meanwhile, the Independent praised the decision as a courageous gambit to keep the imperiled talks moving. At least...
...Belfast Braces for a Bloody New Year Killings by both Republican and Unionist splinter groups have left Northern Ireland bracing for further bloodshed. The peace process can survive extremist attacks, but can it survive the politics of its participants...
...BELFAST: The last place you want to see in the New Year is in a Catholic pub in Belfast, says TIME correspondent Barry Hillenbrand. The assassination in prison last weekend of Unionist militant Billy Wright, followed by the retaliatory strike on a Catholic disco, has left the city braced for a new wave of bloodletting...