Arms Crisis information

The Arms Crisis was a political scandal in the Republic of Ireland in 1970 in which Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney were dismissed as cabinet ministers...

director of army intelligence, told the Arms Crisis trial that the directive instructed the army to set aside surplus arms, ammunition and gas masks for a possible...

Jack Lynch, after a calming-down period. In what became known as the Arms Crisis two ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, were sacked from the...

radically altered when, alongside Charles Haughey, he was involved in the Arms Crisis and stood accused of clandestinely arranging to provide weapons to the...

also marked by several major scandals. Haughey was implicated in the Arms Crisis of 1970, which nearly destroyed his career. His political reputation...

of which ended up in the hands of the IRA. This resulted in the 1970 Arms Crisis where criminal charges were pursued against two former government ministers...

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy...

Takahashi, focused on an illicit arms dealer and her child soldier bodyguard. Annie Larsen affair Arms Crisis Arms control ATF gunwalking scandal (Operation...

Flemish businessman, living in Ireland, who was involved in the 1970 Arms Crisis. Luykx was a member of the SS during World War II. After the war, he...

with Haughey and Blaney. The whole affair, which became known as the Arms Crisis, allowed Lynch to stamp his control on his government, but would eventually...

uncle Neil T. Blaney when he was expelled from Fianna Fáil over the Arms Crisis of 1969–1970. As a supporter of the Fianna Fáil–led coalition government...

The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab–Israeli War, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and as the Sinai War in Israel, was a...

An officer of arms is a person appointed by a sovereign or state with authority to perform one or more of the following functions: to control and initiate...

in 1971 following a major political rift in Fianna Fáil caused by the Arms Crisis, in which Fianna Fáil ministers Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney were...

July 1970, when over 3,000 British soldiers raided the Lower Falls area for arms, leading to three days of gun battles. The Official IRA lost a large amount...

constitution of Cumann na mBan contained explicit references to the use of force by arms if necessary. At the time the Government of Ireland Bill 1914 was being debated...

the global average. After it was implemented, the embargo caused an oil crisis, or "shock", with many short- and long-term effects on the global economy...

outspoken in his opposition to Charles Haughey, in the aftermath of the Arms Crisis, when Haughey and Neil Blaney, having been both removed from the government...

RIRA and ordered them to disband and stop interfering with Provisional IRA arms dumps. With the organisation under intense pressure, which included McKevitt...

Kelly, and Belgian businessman Albert Luykx were acquitted during the Arms Crisis of smuggling weapons to the IRA during the beginning of the conflict...

In February 1994 it was reported that in previous months Gardaí had found arms dumps along the Cooley Peninsula in County Louth that did not belong to the...