Terrorism Ireland

Kitchen designer Michael Rogan, 32, of Belfast was charged with conspiracy in connection with the fatal IRA bombing on Oct. 7 of the British army's headquarters in Northern Ireland. The bombing killed a British soldier, injured 30 and marked a major escalation of the Irish Republican Army's campaign to end British rule of Northern Ireland. A police superintendent told the court that Rogan had denied any involvement in the bombing.

The man accused of heading an outlawed group responsible for the deadliest bomb attack in Northern Ireland's history was ordered held without bail Friday on a terrorism charge. Detectives escorted Mickey McKevitt, 51, the alleged leader of the Real IRA group, to court. He was charged with "directing terrorism" that claimed 29 lives in 1998.

Irish police arrested a teen-ager who allegedly made a vague threat against Delta Air Lines, forcing the air carrier to increase security on transatlantic flights, authorities said Sunday. Colin Leonard Goodwin, 17, of Dunshaughlin, County Meath, was released from police custody in Dublin after posting $1,500 bail, Irish investigators said. He was charged under the Criminal Law Act at the Bridewell Courthouse.

Three men were convicted Tuesday of shipping weapons to Ireland but acquitted of the most serious charges against them. Conor Claxton, Martin Mullan and Anthony Smyth were acquitted on charges of shipping weapons to terrorists and conspiracy to maim or murder people in a foreign country. If they had been convicted of the more serious charges, they could have faced up to life in prison.

Two gunmen burst into a hotel in the Irish Republic and killed two men linked to the outlawed Irish National Liberation Army, a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army. The INLA later claimed responsibility, and there was speculation that the attack was linked to a feud within the group, which is fighting to drive the British out of Northern Ireland. Police said that two other men were injured in the attack, in Drogheda, 30 miles from Dublin.

Three men were convicted Tuesday of shipping weapons to Ireland but acquitted of the most serious charges against them. Conor Claxton, Martin Mullan and Anthony Smyth were acquitted on charges of shipping weapons to terrorists and conspiracy to maim or murder people in a foreign country. If they had been convicted of the more serious charges, they could have faced up to life in prison.

Protestant militants claimed responsibility for a bomb that injured two train passengers Monday and said the attack was a warning that Northern Ireland's Protestant majority will not be "coerced, forced or persuaded into a united Ireland." The attack was the first in Ireland since the Irish Republican Army announced a cease-fire Aug. 31 in its violent 25-year campaign to drive the British from Northern Ireland. Britain and Ireland appealed to the IRA not to retaliate.

In an extraordinary public announcement certain to severely strain Anglo-Irish relations, Ireland's attorney general said Tuesday that he has rejected a British request to extradite a former Roman Catholic priest on terrorism charges because the accused could not get a fair trial here. Irish Atty. Gen.

The country's most wanted fugitive, a maverick Irish nationalist guerrilla known as "the Border Fox," was arrested on Friday after a gun battle at a roadblock in which he was wounded and another man was killed, police said. Dessie O'Hare was shot in the arms, legs and chest when he tried to burst through the roadblock in a car. Sought as a suspect in up to 30 killings, O'Hare had vowed he would never be taken alive.

Kitchen designer Michael Rogan, 32, of Belfast was charged with conspiracy in connection with the fatal IRA bombing on Oct. 7 of the British army's headquarters in Northern Ireland. The bombing killed a British soldier, injured 30 and marked a major escalation of the Irish Republican Army's campaign to end British rule of Northern Ireland. A police superintendent told the court that Rogan had denied any involvement in the bombing.

Protestant militants claimed responsibility for a bomb that injured two train passengers Monday and said the attack was a warning that Northern Ireland's Protestant majority will not be "coerced, forced or persuaded into a united Ireland." The attack was the first in Ireland since the Irish Republican Army announced a cease-fire Aug. 31 in its violent 25-year campaign to drive the British from Northern Ireland. Britain and Ireland appealed to the IRA not to retaliate.

The new year has brought new depths of division to this British-ruled corner of Ireland as mounting IRA terror provokes Protestant leaders to preach "war" against Catholic republicans. Thousands of mourners turned out this week to bury eight Protestant laborers who were killed last Friday when an Irish Republican Army bomb tore apart their minibus as they headed home from work on a British army base.

Irish police arrested a teen-ager who allegedly made a vague threat against Delta Air Lines, forcing the air carrier to increase security on transatlantic flights, authorities said Sunday. Colin Leonard Goodwin, 17, of Dunshaughlin, County Meath, was released from police custody in Dublin after posting $1,500 bail, Irish investigators said. He was charged under the Criminal Law Act at the Bridewell Courthouse.

Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey expressed "serious concern" at leaks of secret British government files about IRA suspects and ordered police to provide protection for those living in the Irish Republic. Haughey's comment was in response to publication by London's Independent newspaper of a list of names and photographs of 60 Irish Republican Army suspects. The newspaper said the list was handed anonymously to its Belfast office.

In an extraordinary public announcement certain to severely strain Anglo-Irish relations, Ireland's attorney general said Tuesday that he has rejected a British request to extradite a former Roman Catholic priest on terrorism charges because the accused could not get a fair trial here. Irish Atty. Gen.

The country's most wanted fugitive, a maverick Irish nationalist guerrilla known as "the Border Fox," was arrested on Friday after a gun battle at a roadblock in which he was wounded and another man was killed, police said. Dessie O'Hare was shot in the arms, legs and chest when he tried to burst through the roadblock in a car. Sought as a suspect in up to 30 killings, O'Hare had vowed he would never be taken alive.