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The Creeslough explosion occurred on 7 October 2022 at an apartment above Applegreen petrol station in Creeslough, a village in north County Donegal, Ireland. It killed ten people and left eight hospitalised; the highest number of civilian casualties in the county in decades. [1] [2] Investigators suspected an accidental gas leak.
List of Irish railway accidents. Bray Head, 1867. This sortable table is intended to list railway accidents in the Republic of Ireland, and before its formation accidents in the provinces of Leinster, Munster and Connacht, plus the counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. It is currently limited to accidents where at least one train occupant ...
The valuable item, used as an image intensifier, was the only one in the British Army inventory in Northern Ireland. 12 August 1992 - An RAF Wessex received fire from an AK-47 assault rifle at Strabane, County Tyrone, during a hot pursuit after a Green Jackets patrol was harassed with sniper fire.
On 19 March 1994, a British Army Lynx helicopter was shot down by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. The mortar round hit and shot down the helicopter, serial number ZD275, [1] while it ...
0. On 2 June 1994, a Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number ZD576, crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts.
Garda Síochána. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022. "Roads Policing fatalities to date for 2021". Roads Policing Statistics. Garda Síochána. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022. Wilson, Jade (1 January 2022). "Road deaths in Ireland drop to record low in 2021". The Irish Times.
August 18 – Airbourne 2000 show ( Eastbourne, East Sussex, England) – former Red Arrows pilot Ted Girdler was killed when his Aero L-29 Delfín jet failed to pull up from a diving roll and crashed into the English Channel. [1] June 18 – Willow Grove 2000 Sounds of Freedom Air Show ( Willow Grove, Pennsylvania) – Two crew members of an F ...
Dunmurry train bombing. Categories: Transport disasters in Northern Ireland. Rail transport in Northern Ireland. Railway accidents and incidents in the United Kingdom. Railway accidents and incidents in Ireland.