Timeline of Irish National Liberation Army actions

1970s

1974

• 8 December: the INLA, along with its political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party, was founded at the Spa Hotel in Lucan, South Dublin.

  1975

• 20 February: the Official Irish Republican Army shot dead Irish Republican Socialist Party branch chairman of Whiterock Hugh Ferguson in Ballymurphy, Belfast, as part of the feud between the two republican groups.
• 25 February: the INLA shot dead Official IRA volunteer Sean Fox in the Divis Flats area of Belfast; part of the feud.
• 1 March: the INLA shot and wounded OIRA leader Sean Garland. The attack happened in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast; part of the feud.
• 13 March: INLA gunmen shot and wounded a Republican Clubs official Sean Morrisey in Belfast.
• 6 April: the Official IRA shot dead INLA volunteer Daniel Loughran on Albert Street, Belfast; part of the feud.
• 12 April: the INLA shot dead Official IRA volunteer Paul Crawford on Falls Road; part of the feud.
• 28 April: the INLA shot dead Official IRA Belfast Brigade Commander Billy McMillen on Falls Road; part of the feud.
• 24 May: a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer, Noel Davis, was killed by an INLA booby trap bomb left in a car in Ballinahone, near Maghera, County Londonderry.
• 5 June: the Official IRA shot dead INLA volunteer Brendan McNamee on Stewartstown Road, Belfast; part of the feud.
• 18 June: the INLA shot and wounded an RUC officer in Derry.
• 26 July: an INLA sniper shot dead RUC officer Robert McPherson shortly after he left his armoured personnel carrier in Dungiven, County Londonderry. Another RUC officer was seriously injured in the attack.
• 9 August: the INLA injured four British soldiers in gun attacks. Two were injured in an ambush in Armagh. Two others were injured in separate attacks in Ballymurphy and the Lower Falls in Belfast.
• 6 September: an INLA unit attacked Rosemount RUC station in Derry. The station came under sustained fire for approximately fifteen minutes.
• 12 September: two British soldiers were injured by an INLA bomb in the Whiterock area of Belfast.
• 13 September: two British soldiers were injured during an attack on a mobile patrol in the Shantallow area of Derry.
• 10 October: Private David Wray a British Army soldier died two weeks after being shot by an INLA sniper while on patrol on Iniscarn Road, Derry.
• 24 October: Provisional IRA member Thomas McGlinchey was severely injured by a UDA under-car booby-trap bomb. Soon afterwards, in retaliation, INLA members shot and wounded two Protestant garage workers, alleging they were UDA members. Both men had been before the courts on arms charges.
• 30 October: the INLA bombed a garage in Armagh, County Armagh. They accused the business of servicing security forces vehicles.
• 2 November: a British soldier was injured in an INLA ambush in Armagh, County Armagh.
• 2 December: two Protestant civilians, Charles McNaul and Alexander Mitchell, were shot dead while sitting in the Dolphin Café on Strand Road, Derry. Gunmen carrying pistols picked them out and opened fire without warning. The INLA later admitted responsibility and claimed its gunmen believed the two men were members of the Ulster Defence Association.
• 31 December 1975: INLA Volunteers using the covername "Armagh People's Republican Army" killed 3 people in a bomb attack on a pub in Gilford. See: Central Bar bombing 1975

1976

• 7 February: Civilian schoolboy Thomas Rafferty is killed by an INLA booby-trap bomb meant for the security services at Derryall Road, Portadown after Rafferty accidentally triggered the bomb.
• 12 March: INLA members exchanged fire with armed Gardaí Special Branch detectives during an attempted train robbery in County Wicklow.
• 5 May: nine INLA prisoners escaped from Long Kesh prison via a tunnel.
• 3 August: an INLA sniper shot dead British soldier Alan Watkins on foot patrol, Dungiven, County Londonderry. A follow-up operation discovered a large booby-trap bomb.
• 14 September: INLA and IRA prisoners in Maze Prison began the blanket protest.
• 25 September: the INLA launched a gun attack at a house on Ormonde Park, Finaghy, Belfast. Gunmen opened fire in the hallway, killing a father and his daughter, James and Rosaleen Kyle, both Protestant civilians. A detective said that it was thought to be a case of mistaken identity. In the Belfast Street Directory, James Kyle was described as a "chief inspector" and it was assumed the gunmen thought he was an RUC officer, but, in fact, Kyle had been a bank inspector until two months before his death, on 28 October 1976.
• 24 November: the INLA shot dead a British soldier, Andrew Crocker, when he arrived at the scene of an armed robbery at a Belfast post office.
• 22 December: the INLA killed RUC officer Samuel Armour with a booby-trap bomb attached to his car outside his home, Curragh Road, Maghera, County Londonderry.
• 29 December: James Liggett, a civilian security guard, died two weeks after being shot trying to stop a bomb attack on the Tavern Bar, Edenderry, Portadown, County Armagh.

1977

• 23 January: an INLA sniper shot dead British soldier George Muncaster while on foot patrol, Eliza Street, Markets, Belfast.
• 1 March: the INLA shot magistrate Robert Whitten, on Thomas Street, Portadown. He died of his wounds on 19 June 1977.
• 7 April: an INLA unit was ambushed by undercover British soldiers near Bellaghy, County Londonderry. An INLA member was seriously wounded but suppressed the soldiers long enough to allow the rest of his unit to escape.
• 26 May: a British soldier was seriously injured by an INLA gunman in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
• 5 October: INLA founder and leader Seamus Costello was shot dead by the Official IRA in Northbrook Avenue, Dublin; part of the feud with the Official IRA.
• 12 December: British Army soldiers shot dead INLA volunteer Colm McNutt in Derry
• 14 December: the INLA claimed responsibility for an attack on Rosemount RUC station, Derry.

1978

• 26 February: a British soldier was wounded by an INLA sniper in west Belfast. A hand grenade was thrown at a RUC station on the Springfield Road in Belfast.
• 8 March: the Ulster Volunteer Force shot dead INLA volunteer Thomas Trainor, together with a civilian, Denis Kelly, as they both left a Department of Health and Social Services office, Armagh Road, Portadown, County Armagh.
• 10 May: an INLA unit fired on a UDR patrol on the Ormeau Road in Belfast & Henry Taggart Barracks was attacked. No injuries in either incident.
• 9 August: INLA volunteers carried out a number of attacks on British patrols & bases in Belfast with newly acquired AK47's. No claimed hits in any attacks.
• 13 August: a British soldier was wounded by an INLA sniper in Roden Street, Belfast.
• 14 August: a British army observation post was hit by INLA sniper fire in the Markets area of Belfast.
• 16 August: Three British soldiers were wounded by an INLA unit in Cromac Square, Belfast.
• 26 August: the INLA claimed responsibility for seriously injuring a man in a gun attack in the Whiterock area of Belfast.
• 12 November: British Ambassador to Ireland Walter Robert Haydon unknowingly survived an INLA assassination attempt in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. A remote-controlled bomb placed inside a stool failed to explode when triggered from a car outside and was later retrieved by INLA members.
• 11 December: the INLA claimed responsibility for bombs targeting business premises in Bedford Street, Belfast.
• 17 December: a Maze prison officer was injured when a mercury-tilt switch bomb exploded under his car near Lisburn.
• 29 - 30 December: the INLA's Derry Brigade carried out several firebomb attacks on banks in Derry city.

  1979

• 23 January 1979: The INLA carried out gun attacks against the RUC and British Army in Belfast, seriously injuring a RUC officer.
• 6 March: the INLA exploded a booby-trap bomb underneath the car of Ulster Defence Regiment soldier Robert McNally as he was leaving a car park, West Street, Portadown, County Armagh. McNally died on 13 March.
• 9 March: the INLA carried out several firebomb attacks on banks in Belfast.
• 10 March: INLA snipers opened fire on a British Army and RUC patrol in Belfast, no hits were claimed.
• 22 March: INLA snipers opened fire on a RUC patrol in west Belfast, injuring one RUC officer hitting him in the side and his thigh.
• 30 March: Airey Neave, British Conservative Party Member of Parliament and adviser to Margaret Thatcher, was killed by a booby-trap bomb underneath his car at the House of Commons; the INLA claimed responsibility. The INLA issued a statement regarding the killing in the August 1979 edition of The Starry Plough:
• 19 April: the INLA shot dead prison officer Agnes Wallace during a gun and grenade attack outside Armagh Prison, four other officers were injured in the attack.
• 27 July: a former RUC officer, James Wright, was killed by a booby trap bomb attached to his car by the INLA outside his home, Corcrain Drive, Portadown, County Armagh.
• 31 July: the INLA shot dead RUC officer George Walsh from a passing car while Walsh sat in a stationary car, outside Armagh Courthouse, Armagh town.
• 9 August: two British soldiers are seriously injured by INLA snipers in West Belfast.
• 3 November: the INLA bombed the British bombed the British Consulate in Antwerp, Belgium.
• 7 November: the INLA shot dead David Teeney, who was employed by the Northern Ireland Prison Service. He was shot at a bus stop shortly after leaving Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast.

1980s

1980

• 13 January: a civilian, John Brown, died seven months after being shot by the Irish National Liberation Army during an armed robbery at the post office where he worked on Main Street, Blackwatertown, County Armagh.
• 7 March: an INLA Active service unit planted two 10 lb bombs at Netheravon British Army camp in Salisbury Plain. Only one bomb detonated & caused damage starting a fire, injuring two soldiers.
• 8 March: a booby-trap bomb seriously injures a UDR soldier in Belfast.
• 18 March: INLA bomb destroys the Gate Inn restaurant in Derry city, another bomb injures a UDR soldier near the Gransha Hospital.
• 3 April: A bomb planted under a RUC mans car in east Belfast was defused.
• 13 May: the INLA claimed responsibility for the destruction of a customs post at Carnagh, County Armagh.
• 30 June: the INLA claimed responsibility for firebombing the Greystone Rugby Club near Dublin. A club member John Robbie was on tour with the Lions in Apartheid South Africa.
• 9 August: an INLA sniper accidentally shot dead a civilian, James McCarren, during a sniper attack on a British Army mobile patrol, Shaw's Road, Andersonstown, Belfast. In the New Lodge a soldier was seriously injured b a grenade.
• 19 August: the INLA accidentally shot dead a civilian, James McCarron during rioting in west Belfast.
• 29 August: a civilian, Frank McGrory, died after inadvertently detonating a booby trap bomb which had been hidden in a hedgerow, at Carnagh, County Armagh, near Keady; it is believed to have been left there by the INLA for use against the security forces.
• 2 September: the INLA released an English tourist they kidnapped near Castleblaney, County Monaghan who they had mistaken for a member of the SAS.
• 15 October: the UDA shot dead INLA leader Ronnie Bunting and INLA member Noel Little at Bunting's home in Downfine Gardens, Belfast. Bunting's wife, Suzanne, was wounded in the attack.
• 19 November: the INLA shot dead a civilian, Thomas Orr, outside his workplace, Ulster Bank on Boucher Road, Belfast. It emerged that the shooting was a case of mistaken identity. The intended target had been an RUC reservist who worked at the bank. The reservist had sold a car to the victim two weeks earlier. He had taken the precaution of changing the vehicle's registration number but the gunmen had identified the car by its make and colour.
• 10 December: the INLA shot dead an off-duty UDR soldier, Colin Quinn, after leaving his workplace, Fox Row, off Durham Street, Belfast.
• 21 December: a booby-trapped toy soldier was found near Keady, County Armagh. Sources claim the INLA was responsible.
• 28 December: the INLA shot dead an off-duty British soldier, Hugh McGinn, outside his home, Umgola Villas, Umgola, near Armagh town.

1981

• 19 January: INLA members kidnapped a woman from a social event in Arklow, County Wexford to raise funds for the INLA. She was rescued after three days and seven people were arrested by Gardaí.
• 8 January: the INLA fired shots at RUC officers on patrol on Great Victoria Street, Belfast; one officer, Lindsay McDougall, was wounded and died six days later, on 14 January.
• 8 February: the INLA shot dead RUC officer Alexander Scott on My Lady's Road, Belfast.
• 1 March: a republican hunger strike began in the Maze Prison. Four INLA and nineteen IRA prisoners would join.
• 25 March: UDA member and Belfast City Councillor Frank Millar was shot and seriously injured in Belfast by INLA gunman.
• 27 March: John Smith a part-time UDR soldier is shot and killed by INLA Volunteers from the Markets area of Belfast.
• 2 April: the INLA planted a mercury tilt-switch bomb under the car of a senior civil servant in Holywood, County Down.
• 16 April: the INLA shot dead an off-duty UDR soldier, John Donnelly, who was drinking at The Village Inn, Moy, County Tyrone.
• 27 April: the INLA killed RUC officer Gary Martin with a booby-trap bomb hidden in a lorry at the junction of Shaw's Road and Glen Road, Andersonstown, Belfast.
• 7 May: an INLA volunteer, James Power, was killed in a premature bomb explosion at a house on Friendly Street, Markets, Belfast. The device was intended to be used against a British Army patrol and was being defused after the opportunity passed.
• 12 May: a British Army sniper shot dead an INLA volunteer, Emmanuel McClarnon, Divis Tower, Belfast.
• 21 May: INLA prisoner Patsy O'Hara died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
• 3 July: INLA sniper fire is directed at Rev. Ian Paisley's entourage near the Markets area of Belfast. No serious injuries.
• 10 July: INLA van bomb injures 3 people near a brewery in west Belfast.
• 27 July: the INLA seriously injure a RUC officer and also a 13-year-old girl in the Clonard district of Belfast
• 29 July: the INLA planned to detonate a bomb on the route of the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer but the operation was aborted after the INLA couldn't get explosives in time.
• 31 July: the INLA shot dead an ex-RUC officer, Thomas Harpur, who was visiting a friend's home, Mount Sion, Ballycolman, Strabane, County Tyrone.
• 1 August: INLA prisoner Kevin Lynch died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
• 9 August: the INLA wound a UDR soldier in Short Strand, east Belfast.
• 20 August: INLA prisoner Michael Devine died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
• 29 September: the INLA shot dead an off-duty UDR soldier, Mark Stockman, shortly after he left his workplace, Mackie's factory, Springfield Road, Belfast.
• 9 October: the INLA shot and wounded UDP councillor Sammy Millar in his Shankill Road home.
• 16 October: the INLA shot dead an Ulster Defence Association member, Billy McCullough, outside his home on Denmark Street, Belfast.
• 28 October: a civilian, Edward Brogan, whom the INLA later claimed was an informer, was found shot dead at a rubbish dump, Shantallow, Derry.
• 24 November: the INLA claimed responsibility for exploding a bomb outside the British Consulate in Hamburg, West Germany.
• 25 November: the INLA claimed responsibility for exploding a bomb at a British Army base in Herford, West Germany; one British soldier was injured.
• 5 December: IRSP member & INLA Volunteer Hary Flynn was shot and seriously wounded in an assassination attempt ordered by Gerard Steenson.

1982

• 25 January: INLA members Sean Flynn and Bernard Dorrian were shot and injured in the Short Strand area of Belfast..
• 15 January: the INLA claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in Derry. The INLA unit used a man they had kneecapped as bait to lure in the security forces and triggered a bomb by command wire.
• 29 January: the INLA shot dead prominent loyalist and Red Hand Commando founder John McKeague at his shop on Albertbridge Road, Belfast. It has been argued his killing had been ordered by the British Army's Intelligence Corps, because McKeague threatened to name others involved in the Kincora abuse scandal. To support this suggestion it has been stated by Jack Holland and Henry McDonald that of the two gunmen who shot McKeague one was a known Special Branch agent and the other was rumoured to have military intelligence links.
• 20 February: the INLA shot dead a Garda Síochána, Patrick Reynolds, at a house in Avonbeg Gardens, Tallaght, County Dublin.
• 5 May: a bomb seriously injures a British soldier in Belfast.
• 12 May: the INLA claimed responsibility for detonating a bomb at the home of former RUC Assistant Chief Constable Sam Bradley. Before it exploded he received several phone calls aiming to lure him out of his house.
• 20 May: the INLA left a bomb at the home of Democratic Unionist Party politician Rev. William Beattie. The bomb, consisting of ten sticks of commercial explosive attached to a can of petrol and a timing device, was defused.
• 2 June: Patrick Smith was killed after inadvertently triggering an INLA booby-trap bomb attached to an abandoned motorcycle, Rugby Road, Belfast.
• 4 June: the INLA shot dead Official IRA volunteer James Flynn on North Strand Road, Dublin; part of a republican feud.
• 12 June: a UDR soldier was shot and badly wounded in Belfast.
• 17 June: six people were injured after the INLA exploded several bombs in commercial premises in Derry.
• 30 June - 1 July: The INLA planted a number of bombs around Derry injuring 17 people including, soldiers, police & civilians.
• 5 July: the INLA shot and wounded a Protestant man in Belfast.
• 28 July: an RUC officer was injured after an INLA unit opened fire on an RUC landrover on patrol in the Creggan area of Derry.
• 2 August: a UDR soldier was seriously injured by a booby-trap bomb near Queen's University Belfast
• 5 August: RUC Assistant Chief Constable William Meharg, who had just resigned, narrowly escaped injury when a bomb exploded at his home in the Ravenhill area of Belfast.
• 26 August: the INLA claimed responsibility for planting a bomb under the car of a RUC officer. The device detonated outside of a care home in Whiteabbey, injuring the officer.
• September: the INLA claimed responsibility for two bombs that exploded in the British Petroleum Plant in Derry as the Duchess of Gloucester was visiting the facility.
• 1 September: the INLA shot and wounded Billy Dickinson, then a Democratic Unionist Party member of Belfast City Council. A small bomb also exploded outside his house.
• 4 September: the INLA was blamed for a bomb that fell off the underside of an RUC officer's car in Patrick Street, Strabane, County Tyrone. Fifty people from nearby homes were evacuated while the device was defused.
• 16 September: the INLA detonated a remote-control bomb hidden in a drainpipe as a British patrol passed Cullingtree Walk, Divis Flats, Belfast. A British soldier, Kevin Waller, and two Catholic children, Stephen Bennett and Kevin Valliday, were killed.
• 20 September: the INLA claimed responsibility for bombing a radar station on Mount Gabriel, County Cork. Five INLA volunteers hijacked a car carrying an engineer to the station. They forced their way inside, tied-up several workers and planted the bombs. The INLA claimed it attacked the station because it was linked to NATO.
• 25 September: the INLA shot dead a Protestant civilian, William Nixon, at his home on Harland Walk, off Newtownards Road, Belfast. The INLA denied involvement in the shooting.
• 25 September: the INLA shot & seriously injured Protestant civilian Karen McKeown outside a church hall on Albertbridge Road in east Belfast. She died of her wounds three weeks later on the 17 October.
• 27 September: the INLA killed a British soldier, Leon Bush, with a booby-trap bomb attached to a security barrier on West Circular Road, Belfast.
• 7 October: an INLA sniper killed UDR soldier Fred Williamson and, indirectly, a female prison officer, Elizabeth Chambers, in Kilmore. Williamson was shot while driving his car, which went out of control and crashed into Chambers' car, killing her.
• 18 October: an INLA gunman shot a former UDR soldier while he was teaching a class at a primary school in Newry, County Armagh.
• 18 October: Robert Andrew Overend, the son of Unionist politician Robert Overend, was badly injured when an INLA bomb exploded under his vehicle on the family farm.
• 19 October: the INLA exploded a bomb at the headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party on Glengall Street, Belfast. The building was badly damaged by the blast.
• 20 October: a bomb placed outside the home of the sister of James Molyneaux is found and defused.
• 16 November: the INLA shot dead two RUC officers, Ronald Irwin and Snowdon Corkey, at a security barrier in Markethill, County Armagh.
• 24 November: the INLA claimed responsibility for planting a bomb under a barrister's car. She was driving into the Crumlin Road courts whenever a security guard spotted the device, which was safely detonated an hour later with no casualties. The intended target was her father, a high-profile judge,
• 30 November: an incendiary parcel bomb exploded in the 10 Downing Street offices of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; an official who opened the letter suffered burns. The INLA claimed responsibility.
• 30 November: the INLA claimed responsibility for planting a bomb under an RUC officer's car in the Bellevue area of Belfast. Nobody was injured.
• 6 December: Droppin Well bombing - the INLA killed 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians when it exploded a time bomb at a disco frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, County Londonderry.
• 12 December: undercover RUC officers shot dead two INLA volunteers, Seamus Grew and Rodney Carroll, at a vehicle checkpoint at Mullacreevie Park, Armagh. RUC intelligence believed that INLA Chief of Staff Dominic McGlinchey was a passenger in the car.
• 13 December: the INLA claimed responsibility for planting a bomb under an RUC officer's car in County Armagh. Nobody was injured. The attack came hours after the INLA pledged to “avenge with unmerciful ferocity” the RUC killing of two INLA volunteers.

1983

• 17 January: the INLA sent a parcel bomb addressed to the home of a senior judge in Belfast. A suspicious postman brought the package to Lisburn Road RUC station where it was defused by the British Army. The INLA had already tried to kill the same judge in November 1982.
• 28 January: the INLA bombed the home of a senior RUC officer in east Belfast.
• 2 February: an INLA volunteer, Neil McMonagle, was shot dead by undercover British Army officer during an altercation at Leafair Park, Shantallow, Derry.
• 24 April: the INLA left a "sophisticated" booby-trap bomb attached to a garage in the Divis Flats complex. The device was defused by the British Army.
• 6 May: the INLA shot dead Eric Dale, one of its own members, at Clontygora, near Killeen, County Armagh as an alleged informer.
• 16 May: Elizabeth Kirpatrick wife of informer Harry Kirkpatrick, is kidnapped. She is later released on the 25 August.
• 24 May: an INLA gunman tried to kill an off-duty UDR soldier in a furniture store in Maghera, County Londonderry. The off-duty soldier returned fire and chased the gunman who escaped.
• 26 May: an RUC officer, Colin Carson, was shot dead by the INLA outside the RUC base in Cookstown, County Tyrone.
• 4 June: a UDR soldier, Andrew Stinson, was killed by an INLA booby-trap bomb attached to a mechanical digger in a field at Eglish, near Dungannon, County Tyrone.
• 9 June: a bomb exploded inside a hijacked petrol tanker in West Belfast. The lorry, parked outside a joint army and RUC base, caused extensive damage to the base but no injuries were reported. The INLA claimed the attack.
• 16 June: the INLA planted a bomb in a video rental shop in Newry. As army technical officers went to defuse the bomb snipers opened fire, injuring an RUC detective.
• 13 July: Eamon McMahon, ex INLA volunteer, was found shot dead in his car, Glasdrumman, near Crossmaglen, County Armagh. Patrick Mackin, described by CAIN as a Catholic civilian, was also found shot in McMahon's car. It has never been officially established who was responsible or why but McMahon was a brother-in-law of Eric Dale. It was reported in the Irish Independent that Dominic and Mary McGlinchey killed both men.
• 27 July: four UDR soldiers narrowly escaped injury when an INLA booby-trap bomb exploded as they arrived to open a security gate in Belfast.
• 13 August: undercover RUC officers shot dead two INLA members, Gerard Mallon and Brendan Convery, as they were about to attack RUC officers in Dungannon, County Tyrone. Earlier that same day an INLA unit tried to kill an RUC Reserve officer at a security barrier in Markethill, County Armagh. The operations were supposed to be launched simultaneously but the Markethill unit erred.
• 17 August an attempt to kill a RUC officer outside Newry courthouse failed.
• 6 September: the INLA shot dead RUC officer John Wasson outside his home at Dukes Grove, off Cathedral Road, Armagh.
• 19 September: the INLA opened fire on a group of RUC officers in Newry.
• 23 September: the INLA ambushed a British Army patrol at the junction of Buncrana Road and Springtown Park, Derry.
• 26 October: the INLA shot dead a former member, Gerard Barkley, near Redhills, County Cavan. An INLA statement issued from the Republic claimed he was an informer while the Belfast INLA claimed he was killed by British agents. The actual reason was Barkley had angered the INLA chief of staff by committing robberies for personal gain.
• 4 November: a van bomb exploded outside a bar on Patrick street, Strabane. The explosion demolished the bar, seriously injured 13 people and another 16 people had minor injuries that did not require hospital attention.
• 20 November: gunmen opened fire on a Protestant church service in Darkley, killing 3 churchmen. The attack was claimed by the "Catholic Reaction Force", however, Dominic McGlinchey stated one of the gunmen was an INLA member and that he had supplied him with a weapon.
• 2 December: Gardaí discovered by chance the safe house of INLA chief of staff Dominic McGlinchey in the Carrigtohill area of Cork. The unarmed officers were stripped of their uniforms and tied up and the INLA members escaped
• 5 December: Ulster Volunteer Force volunteers shot INLA volunteer Joseph Craven dead from a passing motorcycle shortly after Craven left the Department of Health and Social Services office, Church Road, Newtownabbey, County Antrim.
• 17 December: the INLA detonated a booby-trap bomb at a security gate in Belfast.

1984

• 6 January a man out on bail charged with INLA activities survived a booby trap in Armagh.
• 20 January: the INLA shot dead UDR soldier Colin Houston at his home on Sunnymede Avenue, Dunmurry.
• 28 January: an RUC Reserve officer was shot and badly wounded by the INLA.
• 17 March: Dominic McGlinchey, then considered leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, was recaptured after an exchange of gunfire with the Garda Síochána.
• 13 April: the INLA shot dead an alleged local criminal, John George, identified by CAIN as a Catholic civilian, at his home on Thornhill Crescent, Twinbrook, Belfast.
• 6 May: armed and uniformed INLA volunteers tried to take the platform at a Sinn Féin rally commemorating the 1981 Hunger Strike but were blocked by stewards.
• 28 May: a bomb attack targeting British soldiers on the Ballymurphy Road, Belfast, was foiled by the security forces. INLA members were arrested in two houses they had taken over for the operation.
• 15 June: RUC officer Michael Todd and INLA volunteer Paul McCann were shot dead during a gun battle on Lenadoon Avenue, Belfast. The RUC had surrounded an INLA unit who had taken up position in a house.
• 11 August: an INLA attempt to ambush RUC officers failed and two of the INLA unit are arrested in Dunmurry.
• 2 September: Paddy Bonne, a bouncer at a nightclub, was shot and seriously wounded. His leg was amputated as a consequence.
• 28 September: an INLA attempt to kill a UDR man in Armagh fails.
• 18 October: 18-year-old Eddie McGarrile was shot & badly wounded in Strabane.
• 30 October: the INLA shot & injured a man for anti-social behaviour in North Belfast.
• 1 December: an INLA attempt to kill a UDR soldier fails.
• 3 December: the INLA claimed responsibility for several hoax bombs planted in Dublin. In a statement the INLA said it was a protest at the alleged threat to Irish neutrality posed by Ireland's membership of the EEC.
• 16 December: the INLA exploded a bomb outside a bar in Holywood, County Down. Nobody was injured. The INLA later claimed their target were British soldiers who usually loitered outside, but because of bad weather they didn't.
• 17 December: the INLA tried to kill Derry DUP councillor Gregory Campbell by planting a bomb under his car but the attempt failed when the bomb fell off the car and was defused.
• 24 December: an assassination attempt targeting SAS officer Brian Baty was foiled by an informer. The INLA team were arrested outside a pub in Liverpool where the bomb was to be collected. The operation was supposed to be the first of a series targeting members of the British military and political establishment. The same informer was responsible for the arrest of another INLA team in a quarry in Somerset in 1993.

1985

• 4 January: an INLA unit carried out a failed attempt to assassinate Reverend Ian Paisley in Belfast. INLA volunteers went to his church where they believed he was to give a sermon but somebody else stood in for him that morning. The volunteers were spotted and the operation was aborted. In an interview with journalist Vincent Browne an INLA representative said regarding the action:
• 18 January: the INLA claimed responsibility for a bomb attack targeting a senior judge in Belfast. INLA members lobbed a bomb at the judge's car but it failed to explode. A prosecutor instead of the targeted judge was in the car.
• 21 January: an RUC Reserve officer was shot and seriously wounded in an INLA attack at Downe Hospital, Downpatrick, County Down.
• 17 February: the INLA were responsible for several bomb hoaxes in Belfast.
• 24 February: the INLA shot dead a former UDR soldier, Douglas McElhinney, on Glenvale Road, off Northland Road, Derry.
• 27 February: an INLA bomb destroyed a petrol station near Windsor Park. Earlier in the day the English football team played a match against Northern Ireland in the stadium and an INLA statement warned there would be further attacks on sporting events in the Province.
• March: Sinn Féin alleged that the INLA were responsible for the kidnapping of a publican's daughter in Derry. She was released after the IRA threatened to shoot those responsible.
• 20 April: the INLA claimed responsibility for firebombing a store in Dublin which was selling South African goods in protest against the apartheid regime. There were no injuries as the building had been cleared following a telephone warning.
• 9 May: the INLA abducted and killed an ex-member of their own organisation, Seamus Ruddy in France. The 32 year old from Newry, Co Down was found at Pont-de-l’Arche, near Rouen in northern France in May 2017.
• 14 May: the INLA planted two incendiary devices in business premises in the centre of Belfast.
• 24 May: an RUC officer was injured after several shots were fired at a police patrol in Derry.
• 27 June: a Garda officer, Patrick Morrissey, was killed during the robbery of a post office in Ardee, County Louth; CAIN lists the INLA as responsible.
• 9 August: a train travelling from Belfast to Dublin was severely damaged after the INLA planted several bombs in the carriages.
• 24 August: the INLA informed the RUC they had left a bomb under a bridge at Killeavy, South Armagh. The bomb was actually rigged to the doorbell of a nearby home whose owner they had taken hostage, intended for the security forces. A neighbour who called to warn of the bomb alert was seriously injured.
• 29 August: the INLA exploded a bomb on a train outside the Belfast central railway station injuring seven RUC officers & two members of the train stations staff and badly damaging a number of carriages.
• 9 September: an INLA member from County Dublin, James Burnett, was found shot dead in Killeen, County Armagh, as an alleged informer.
• 12 November: two bombs planted by the INLA were defused outside Chelsea Barracks in London.

1986

• 3 January: the INLA kidnapped a businessman in Derry. He was found several days later in the Shantallow area of Derry by the RUC following a large-scale search operation.
• 3 April: the INLA claimed responsibility for a bomb planted in the council offices in Newry. The RUC had previously used the premises.
• 5 April: a bomb exploded prematurely in a pub in Belfast injuring the two INLA volunteers planting the device.
• 28 April: the INLA leave a bomb at Newry Council offices.
• 15 May: an RUC station in Derry was hit by INLA sniper fire
• 28 August: the INLA claimed responsibility for bomb attacks across Northern Ireland: two car bombs exploded outside the RUC bases in Newry and Downpatrick, a third bomb exploded in a disused factory in Derry and a fourth was found under an RUC officer's car in Antrim.
• 30 August: a taxi driver was abducted by the INLA and forced to leave a car bomb outside a pub in Antrim. The RUC later discovered a bomb abandoned at the border near Newry. The owner of the taxi firm was threatened with death if he didn't make a public statement refusing to accept fares from security force members. Pubs who served members of the security forces were also threatened.
• 22 September: the INLA attempt to bomb the British Legion hall in Killilea, Co. Down fails.
• 28 September: the INLA claimed responsibility for an attempted bombing in Downpatrick, County Down. INLA members planted a suitcase bomb outside a closed pub and then sent a telephone warning. An RUC officer carried the bomb to a field about away, where it exploded 15 minutes later. Later the RUC intercepted a three-car convoy carrying bombs nearby. Four people were arrested. One car escaped after crashing through the checkpoint and being fired on by RUC officers.
• 14 October: an INLA sniper injured a RUC officer in north Belfast.
• 20 November: fifteen INLA members were photographed posing with automatic weapons in South Armagh. NI Office Minister Nicholas Scott endorsed new laws to combat paramilitary displays in response.
• 24 November: an INLA bomb attack on the home of Unionist Party Councillor Sam McCarney failed.
• 21 December : the breakaway IPLO shot dead an INLA volunteer in Belfast. It marked the beginning of a feud between the two republican groups.

  1987

• 1 January: a 72-year-old woman was shot and seriously injured when the INLA carried out a gun attack on the home of a UDR soldier in Bessbrook, Co. Armagh. She died five weeks later.
• 1 January: part of the Newry-Dundalk road in County Armagh closed after the INLA claimed to have left a bomb there.
• 8 January: the INLA claimed responsibility for wounding Unionist politician David Calvert as he got into his car near Portadown.
• 20 January: the IPLO shot dead INLA members Thomas 'Ta' Power and John O'Reilly in Rossnaree Hotel, Drogheda, County Louth.
• 28 January: the IPLO tried to kill INLA member Emmanuel Gargan in the Lower Ormeau, Belfast. He was wounded in another attempt two days later.
• 30 January: a man claiming to be from the INLA told a journalist that the organisation was responsible for a major fire at council offices in Newry, County Armagh.
• 31 January: Mary McGlinchey, an INLA activist and wife of INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey was shot dead at her home in Dundalk, County Louth. It has never been established who was responsible or why.
• 5 February: the INLA shot dead a member of the IPLO in Middletown, County Armagh as part of a republican feud.
• 18 February: the IPLO shot dead INLA volunteer Michael Kearney in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast as part of a republican feud.
• 7 March: the INLA shot dead a member of the IPLO near Forkill as part of a republican feud.
• 10 March: the IPLO shot and wounded the chairman of the IRSP Kevin McQuillan at his home in Springfield Park, Belfast. His brother was also wounded in the attack.
• 14 March: the INLA shot dead IPLO member Fergus Conlon near Forkill as part of a republican feud.
• 15 March: the INLA attacked the car of IPLO member Gerard Steenson in Ballymurphy, Belfast. Steenson and his passenger were killed, as part of a republican feud.
• 21 March: the IPLO shot dead INLA volunteer Emmanuel Gargan in the Hatfield Bar, Belfast, as part of a republican feud.
• 22 March: the IPLO shot dead INLA volunteer Kevin Duffy in Armagh as part of a republican feud.
• 26 June: Elizabeth Nicholson, the wife of Unionist politician Jim Nicholson, escaped unharmed after several shots were fired at her while she was driving. The RUC believed a gang led by Dessie O'Hare was responsible.
• 4 October: the INLA shot dead an alleged criminal, James McDaid, and left his body in an abandoned car near Crossmaglen, County Armagh.
• 10 October: INLA member Colm Maguire died in Portlaoise prison shortly after ending a hunger strike.
• 14 October: Dessie O'Hare and three other INLA members, calling themselves the "Irish Revolutionary Brigade", kidnapped John O'Grady, a dentist from Dublin, and demanded a IR£1.5m ransom. The gang had intended to seize Austin Darragh, owner of the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, but Darragh had moved three years previously from the house, which was occupied by O'Grady, his son-in-law.
• 27 October: Dessie O'Hare's gang escaped with kidnapped Dublin dentist John O’Grady from Gardaí after an exchange of gunfire at Ballyedmond near Midleton, County Cork. A Garda patrol became suspicious of a container on a farm and as reinforcements arrived they were ambushed by members of the gang.
• 5 November: John O'Grady was rescued by Gardaí in Cabra, North Dublin, only an hour before a £1.5m ransom was due to be handed over. A Garda detective was seriously wounded in the gun battle. The kidnappers escaped by taking two civilians hostage and forcing them to drive to Limerick.
• 27 November: INLA member Martin Bryan was shot dead at an Irish Defence Forces check point in Urlingford, County Kilkenny. He was travelling in a car with Dessie O'Hare who was shot eight times during the exchange of fire before being arrested. A soldier was also wounded in the incident.
• 8 December: a civilian, Patrick Cunningham, was found shot dead in an outbuilding at an unoccupied farm, Errybane, near Castleblayney, County Monaghan on 8 December 1987. He had been abducted in May 1987; it is believed the killing was related to the INLA/IPLO feud.

1988

• January: a suspected informer survived a murder attempt following an INLA interrogation in Downpatrick, County Down.
• 25 April: the INLA sent threats to workers at the Department of Health and Social Services in Derry. They alleged an outside DHSS team was investigating social security fraud in the city. The INLA withdrew their threat the next day after thirty labour exchanges went on strike in protest.
• 10 August: the British Army shot dead INLA member James McPhilemy during a gun attack on a vehicle checkpoint in Clady, County Tyrone. The two other INLA members involved escaped across the border after a brief gun battle with British soldiers.
• 17 August: the INLA shot dead an ex-member of the UVF, Frederick Otley, at his shop on the Shankill Road, Belfast.
• 3 November: the INLA shot and injured an RUC officer in Warringstown, County Down as he collected his four-year-old son at school.

  1989

• February 17: the INLA shot and wounded a former UDR soldier in Main Street, Ballynahinch, County Down. A woman nearby was also injured.
• June: the INLA detonated a bomb at an international bowling tournament being held at Ward Park, Bangor, County Down. The target was the Israeli bowling team. The INLA statement said the attack was "in solidarity with Palestinians expelled from their lands".
• 29 July: the INLA claimed responsibility for shots fired at a security forces checkpoint on the Monagh Road, Belfast.
• 14 August: the INLA claimed responsibility for shots fired at an RUC station in Armagh, County Armagh.
• 15 August: the INLA claimed responsibility for shots fired at New Barnsley RUC station, Belfast following rioting commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the deployment of British troops in Northern Ireland.
• 17 August: the INLA claimed responsibility for automatic fire directed at Townsend Street RUC station, Strabane, County Tyrone. An INLA statement issued later claimed to have hit a British soldier in his flak jacket, without evidence.
• 28 August: an INLA sniper fired on a joint British Army-RUC checkpoint in Strabane, County Tyrone with a.303 rifle.
• 29 September: the INLA claimed responsibility for a gun attack on an RUC mobile patrol in Armagh, County Armagh.
• 4 October: the INLA was blamed for the kidnapping of a man in County Louth. Gardaí were not informed of the abduction for 16 hours and a motive wasn't established.
• 29 December: the INLA threatened to kill a man living in Strabane, County Tyrone unless he left the country within 48 hours. An INLA spokesman claimed the man had been involved in anti-social behaviour.

  1990s

1990

• 22 July: an alleged informant being interrogated by the INLA was rescued by the RUC. The INLA had been planning to kill him when the officers arrived.
• 22 November: undercover British soldiers shot dead INLA volunteer Alexander Patterson as he tried to assassinate an off-duty UDR soldier in Strabane.

  1991

• 29 June: the INLA shot dead one of its own members, Gerard Burns, as an alleged informer. Burns' body was found at the back of a house in New Barnsley Park, Ballymurphy, Belfast.
• 17 August: the INLA carried out a gun attack on the home of an RUC officer in Armagh, County Armagh. The policeman's wife escaped injury after gunmen fired ten bullets into a bedroom.
• 28 November: Northern Ireland Conservatives politician Lawrence Kennedy's home in North Down was taken over by INLA gunmen who waited for him to return from a medical conference in England. His wife used a hidden alarm, and the gunmen surrendered to a Catholic Priest when the RUC surrounded the house.
• 21 December: the INLA shot dead Robin Farmer at his family's shop, Killyman Street, Moy; his father, a former RUC officer, was the actual intended target. MP Ken Maginnis claimed the attack involved cooperation between the IRA and the INLA.

1992

• 13 April : the INLA shot a British soldier, Michael Newman, outside a recruiting office in Derby, England. He died of his wounds the following day.
• 18 June: nine incendiary devices were planted in various stores in Leeds, England. Four of the devices went off, causing over £50,000 worth of damages. Two INLA volunteers were convicted of conspiracy to cause arson, Eamonn O'Donnell was jailed for twenty years and Sean Cruickshank for 15 years.
• 25 August: the INLA claimed responsibility for injuring a Protestant man in a shooting on Oldpark Road, Belfast.
• 1 October: the INLA claimed responsibility for injuring a Protestant man in a shooting in the Annadale area of south Belfast. His family denied he was a member of any Loyalist paramilitary organisation.
• 10 December: the INLA shot & seriously injured a man who worked for Belfast City Council. The INLA later said their intended target was a member of the UFF and they had made a mistake.
• 29 December: the INLA claimed responsibility for the attempted killing of a taxi driver on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. A lone gunman fired several shots before fleeing.

  1993

• 14 January: the INLA claimed responsibility for attempting to kill prominent loyalist John "Bunter" Graham. He was hit by rifle shots fired through the window of his home in the Shankill area of Belfast but survived.
• 21 January: the INLA shot dead Samuel Rock, a civilian, at his home on Rosewood Street, Lower Oldpark, Belfast, claiming that he was a UDA member. Rock's family denied the claim. It was reported that Rock had recently purchased a car from a loyalist in the Shankill area and the killing may thus have been a case of mistaken identity. CAIN lists Rock as a Protestant civilian.
• 7 February: two INLA members were arrested trying to steal explosives from a quarry in Somerset, England for a new bombing campaign. They walked into an M15 ambush which was sprung prematurely when an INLA man stepped on a concealed M15 marksman. A third INLA volunteer escaped.
• 18 February: a woman blocked INLA gunmen from entering her home in Belfast. Their target was her son, a member of the British Army's Royal Irish Regiment.
• 30 April: an INLA attack on a Protestant taxi-driver failed when the gun jammed in Botanic Avenue, Belfast.
• 17 June: a retired RUC officer, John Patrick Murphy, was shot dead by INLA gunmen inside the York Hotel, Botanic Avenue, Belfast.
• 20 July: a man was shot several times and seriously wounded in Dunmurray, Belfast. The INLA claimed he was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment but this was denied by the RUC.
• 24 August: an RUC officer was injured after INLA members opened fire from a hijacked vehicle at Grosvenor Road RUC station, Belfast.
• 6 September: a Loyalist was wounded in an INLA attack while sitting in his car outside his home in the Shankill area of Belfast. Another attempt was made on his life six days later.
• 18 October: a leading UDA member escaped from two INLA gunmen who entered his home in a Protestant area of Suffolk, south Belfast. Before leaving they fired several shots above the heads of the man's family.
• 19 October: three INLA gunmen were arrested by the RUC outside the home of Johnny Adair, a senior member of the UDA/UFF.

1994

• 10 February: Dominic McGlinchey, the INLA's former Chief of Staff, was shot dead in Drogheda. It has never been established who was responsible or why.
• 13 February: the INLA tried to kill a man in the Loyalist Tigers Bay area.
• 24 February: The INLA shot dead a security guard, Jack Smyth, at the entrance to Bob Cratchits Bar, Lisburn Road, Belfast. The INLA claimed he was linked to the UDA/UFF, but CAIN lists Smyth as a civilian.
• 27 April: the INLA shot dead a member of the UDA, Gerald Evans, at his fishing tackle shop, Northcott Shopping Centre, Ballyclare Road, Glengormley, County Antrim. Another man is also injured in the attack.
• 3 May: the INLA shot dead a civilian, Thomas Douglas, outside his workplace, Northern Ireland Electricity Headquarters, Stranmillis Road, Belfast. The INLA claimed he was a high-ranking loyalist but CAIN lists Douglas as a civilian.
• 16 June: 1994 Shankill Road Killings - INLA volunteers shot dead three UVF volunteers in a gun attack on Shankill Road, Belfast.
• 22 July: a leading member of the Dublin INLA was killed by a former Belfast INLA gunman. This led to a dispute between the Belfast leadership and the Dublin wing ending with the entire Dublin organisation expelled.
• 23 September: the UVF tried to kill the INLA Chief of Staff, Hugh Torney in the Lower Falls area of Belfast. UVF gunmen held his family hostage but Torney failed to appear.

1995

• 1 December: the INLA shot and injured a man on the Falls Road, west Belfast.
• 5 April: four INLA members were arrested on the main Dublin-Belfast road transporting pistols, assault rifles and about 2,000 rounds of ammunition to Northern Ireland.

  1996

• 30 January: the Hugh Torney lead INLA-GHQ faction shot dead the INLA Chief of staff Gino Gallagher, inside Department of Health and Social Services office on Falls Road, Belfast, in the course of an internal dispute.
• 1 February: over fifty shots were fired at an RUC officer's home in Moy, County Tyrone, The INLA was suspected to be responsible.
• 5 March: INLA-GHQ volunteer John Fennell was beaten to death by the INLA in Bundoran, County Donegal, in the course of an internal dispute.
• 15 March: the INLA shot dead Barbara McAlorum by accident in Ashfield Gardens, Belfast; an INLA GHQ Staff relative was the intended target
• 19 March: a man escaped injury in a shooting incident on the Whiterock Road, Belfast. INLA-GHQ faction claimed responsibility.
• 13 April: an INLA member was shot and moderately wounded in West Belfast as part of an internal feud.
• 25 May: INLA-GHQ volunteer Dessie McCleery was shot dead by INLA on Bankmore Street, Belfast, in the course of an internal dispute.
• 9 June: INLA-GHQ volunteer Francis Shannon was shot dead by INLA in the Turf Lodge area of Belfast, in the course of an internal dispute.
• 12 July: three RUC officers were wounded in two separate gun attacks by the INLA during rioting over the Drumcree dispute. At approximately 1:40 AM two RUC officers were shot during disturbances in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. Around half an hour later a gunman opened fire on a police vehicle on Duncairn Gardens. A bullet passed through one of the doors and hit a police officer inside on the arm.
• 13 July: INLA volunteer Dermot "Tonto" McShane was crushed by a British army vehicle during a night of rioting.
• 13 July: several INLA gunmen opened fire on the New Barnsley police station in West Belfast.
• 16 August: an INLA member was shot and seriously wounded in an ambush in West Belfast. Part of an internal feud.
• 3 September: INLA-GHQ Staff leader Hugh Torney was shot dead by INLA volunteers in Lurgan, in the course of an internal dispute.

1997

• 17 March: Billy Hutchinson, member of the Progressive Unionist Party, & former UVF volunteer received a warning from the RUC that the INLA was planning to assassinate him.
• 28 April: INLA prisoners at Maghaberry Prison held a prison officer hostage at gunpoint with a 9mm pistol & a Zip Gun before giving themselves up. The prisoners were protesting at the transfer of Billy Wright, then leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force, from Maghaberry to the Maze Prison.
• 9 May: the INLA shot dead an off-duty RUC officer, Darren Bradshaw, as he drank with friends in the Parliament Bar, frequented by members of Belfast's gay community.
• 4 June: INLA volunteer John Morris was shot dead by the Gardaí during an armed robbery in Inchicore, Dublin.
• 21 June: RUC intelligence reports warned that an INLA cell based in the Markets area of Belfast had been ordered to open fire on a contentious Orange Order parade as it passed along the Lower Ormeau.
• 7 July: INLA gunmen fired on British soldiers in Ardoyne, Belfast as part of the widespread violence that followed Mo Mowlam's decision over the Drumcree parade. See 1997 nationalist riots in Northern Ireland.
• 8 July: the INLA threatened to attack Orangemen whom it viewed as responsible for forcing parades through Nationalist & Catholic areas.
• 11 July: two Protestant teenagers were shot at an Eleventh Night bonfire in North Belfast. One of the youths, a 14-year-old schoolboy, underwent emergency surgery.
• 18 September: a grenade thrown by the INLA is defused by army technical experts outside of a police station in Derry.
• 25 September: two grenades were thrown by the INLA at police stations in South and East Belfast. Neither exploded.
• 27 December: INLA prisoners shot dead Loyalist Volunteer Force leader and fellow prisoner Billy Wright inside Maze Prison.

1998

• 1 January: a home in Newtownbutler belonging to a member of the RUC was sprayed with gunfire by an INLA unit.
• 19 January: the INLA shot dead UDA leader Jim Guiney at his carpet shop in Dunmurry.
• 28 February: INLA volunteers launched a hand grenade attack on RUC officers at Hazelwood Integrated College, Belfast.
• 27 March: the INLA shot dead an ex-member of the RUC, Cyril Stewart, outside a supermarket, off Dobbin Street Lane, Armagh.
• 8 April: the INLA shot dead Trevor Deeny, an ex-member of the UVF and Derry leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force, outside his home, Hillhampton, off Rossdowney Road, Kilfennan, County Londonderry.
• 17 April: the INLA shot dead a former INLA volunteer, taxi driver Mark McNeill, while he was getting out of his car, outside taxi depot, Shaws Road, Anderstown, Belfast.
• 24 June: the INLA exploded a 200 lb car bomb in the centre of Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. The group issued a 50-minute warning about the bomb, but people were still being evacuated when it exploded and six people were injured. The Real IRA provided the explosives for the bombing and CAIN lists them as the perpetrators. See: Newtownhamilton bombing
• 13 July: two suspect packages were left at an Orange hall in East Belfast. The INLA is believed to have been responsible.
• 17 August: the IRSP the INLA's political wing, after the Omagh bombing issued a statement calling on the INLA to end their armed struggle.
• 22 August: after a 24-year campaign, the INLA declared a ceasefire.
• 23 August: Christopher "Crip" McWilliams, then OC of the Irish National Liberation Army in the Maze Prison, declared that the "war is over".

1999

• 8 August: the INLA declared the "war is over" but said it would not decommission its weapons.
• 10 October: INLA volunteer Patrick Campbell was killed in a confrontation with a criminal gang in Dublin. The event dubbed the "Ballymount Bloodbath" saw the INLA tie up and torture a criminal gang before associates of the gang entered armed with machetes to free them. Campbell was stabbed and bled to death.

2000s-2010s

2000

• 29 April: the INLA shot dead Patrick Neville on stairway in block of flats, near to his home, St. Michael's estate, Inchicore, Dublin. The INLA claimed he was part of the gang responsible for killing Patrick Campbell in October 1999.

  2001

• 29 October: INLA members were blamed by police for shooting dead a former loyalist prisoner in Strabane, County Tyrone.
• 12 December: an ex INLA member from Dublin died several hours after being found shot in the legs by the INLA at the side of New Road, near Forkhill, County Armagh. It was believed that he had been shot because of an internal INLA dispute.

  2002

• 12 January: the PSNI discovered explosives and weapons during the search of a house in north Belfast. The haul included 4 blast bombs, an anti-personnel mine containing high explosive, two detonators, a sub-machine gun, ammunition, and a shotgun. They were believed to have belonged to the INLA. Afterwards a man was arrested.
• 22 July: the INLA shot and injured a young Protestant man in the Ardoyne area of Belfast.
• 15 October: the INLA claimed responsibility for the punishment shooting of a man in Strabane, County Tyrone. In a statement issued six days later the INLA claimed the man been engaged in a campaign of smears, intimidation, and arson against IRSP members.

  2007

• 3 June: the INLA claimed responsibility for the shooting death of a doorman/bouncer and drug dealer, Brian McGlynn, in Derry. However, it was reported that "espite the INLA's claim, some security and republican sources continue to suspect the Provisional IRA had a role in the murder. They said McGlynn's behaviour had upset the Provisional IRA in recent weeks."

  2008

• 30 June: the INLA performed a full-scale paramilitary funeral for former INLA volunteer Christopher "Crip" McWilliams. They also attacked Martin McGuinness saying "We have a message for the British micro minister and macro hypocrite Martin McGuinness -- we are not going away."

  2009

• 15 February: the INLA shot dead an alleged drug dealer, Jim McConnell, in Derry.
• 19 August: the INLA shot and wounded a man in Derry. The INLA claimed that the man was involved in drug dealing although the injured man and his family denied the allegation. However, in a newspaper article on 28 August the victim retracted his previous statement and admitted he had been involved in small scale drug-dealing but had since ceased these activities.
• 11 October: speaking at the graveside of Seamus Costello in Bray, the INLA formally announced an end to its armed campaign, stating that the current situation allows it pursue its goals through peaceful political means.

  2010

• 8 February: it was announced that the INLA had put its weapons out of commission.

  2013

• 21 March: Sinn Féin blamed elements close to the INLA for shooting two men in the legs in Derry, and urged those close to the INLA to pass on any information they have.

  2015

• 9 February: INLA members were suspected of being responsible for several under-car bombs across Belfast. One device went off destroying a car on St James's Road while two others in North and South Belfast failed to detonate. It was suggested that the bombs were part of a “drugs turf war”.
• 18 July: dozens of members of the Irish National Liberation Army paraded in military uniforms at the funeral in Derry of Peggy O'Hara, the mother of 1981 hunger striker Patsy O’Hara. Shots were fired over her coffin.
• 4 November: a paramilitary display by the INLA took place at the funeral of Declan McGlinchey, son of former INLA leader, Dominic McGlinchey, who was shot dead in Drogheda in 1994.

  2018

• 4 December: Jim Donegan was murdered as he sat in his car outside a school on the Glen Road in west Belfast. The PSNI said the INLA and ONH were involved.