Last night's IRA attack may have cost little in terms of life and property.

C Division would lose a total of 12 men as a result of IRA attacks.

His brother and mother were killed several years ago in separate IRA attacks, informed sources said Saturday.

This is the highest number of casualties in an IRA attack since 1988.

Third IRA attack on city in 20 months.

By the late 1980s and early 1990s, roughly 9 out of every 10 IRA attacks were aborted or failed to cause casualties.

In 1990, there were almost 400 IRA attacks which killed 30 soldiers and police and injured 340.

In 1992, the figure for IRA attacks was 426.

A new wave of IRA attacks then broke out early in 1979, including several on the British mainland.

The manor house itself was burnt down in the early 1920s as a result of an IRA attack.