Editing Loyalist Volunteer Force (section)

===1998===

*'''10 January''': the LVF launched a gun attack on the Space nightclub at Talbot Street, [[Belfast]]. Gunmen pulled up in a car and opened fire on people standing at the door. A doorman, Catholic civilian Terry Enright (28), was killed. He was a cross-community worker who helped steer young people away from violence. The LVF said it was revenge for the killing of Billy Wright by INLA.<ref name="cainchron98">[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch98.htm A Chronology of the Conflict - 1998] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416033514/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch98.htm |date=16 April 2011 }} - ''[[Conflict Archive on the Internet]]''</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/46548.stm | work=BBC News | title=Loyalist group admits club shooting | date=11 January 1998}}</ref>
*'''18 January''': the LVF killed Catholic civilian Fergal McCusker (28) in [[Maghera]], County Londonderry. He was kidnapped and shot dead while walking home. His body was found behind a youth center off Tircane Road.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''19 January''': the LVF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Catholic taxi driver Larry Brennan (52) as he sat in his car on Ormeau Road, Belfast. The attack happened hours after the INLA killed UDA member Jim Guiney. Police believe UDA members were involved.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''23 January''': the LVF shot dead Catholic construction worker Liam Conway (39) as he operated a digger on Hesketh Road, Belfast.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''24 January''': the LVF shot dead Catholic taxi driver John McColgan (33) in Belfast. He had picked up a number of men on the Andersonstown Road, who told him to drive to Upper Glen Road. They shot him, dumped his body by the roadside, and drove off in the taxi.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''25 January''': the LVF claimed responsibility for shooting and wounding a Catholic civilian in Lurgan. The man was sitting in the cab of a lorry when a lone gunman shot at him several times.<ref name="cainchron98"/><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/50498.stm | work=BBC News | title=Sectarian violence escalates in Ulster | date=26 January 1998}}</ref>
*'''27 January''': the LVF was blamed for trying to kill a Catholic taxi driver in North Belfast. He escaped when the gun jammed.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''27 January''': the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA) announced that the LVF had issued death threats against a number of Catholic cross-community workers in the Mid-Ulster area.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''4 February''': the LVF admitted firing a shot at a Protestant man in Lurgan and warned him to leave the area.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''23 February''': the LVF claimed responsibility for planting a small car bomb outside a [[Garda Síochána|Garda]] station in Dromad, [[County Louth]], Republic of Ireland. It was spotted and defused by the security forces. The LVF threatened further attacks in the Republic.<ref>[http://www.independent.ie/national-news/crossborder-alert-as-lvf-threatens-further-attacks-455745.html "Cross-border alert as LVF threatens further attacks"]. ''[[Irish Independent]]''. 24 February 1998.</ref>
*'''27 February''': the LVF was blamed for a beer keg bomb left in a car in the predominantly Nationalist town of [[Carnlough]], County Antrim. The device was neutralised by the British Army.<ref>''Irish Examiner'', 2 March 1998</ref>
*'''3 March''': the LVF killed a Catholic and a Protestant civilian—Damian Trainor (26) and Philip Allen (34)—in the Railway Bar in [[Poyntzpass]], County Armagh. Gunmen entered the Catholic-owned pub, told them to lie on the floor and then shot them dead. The two were close friends.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''5 March''': the LVF was blamed for a gun attack on a house in a mainly-Protestant area of [[Antrim, County Antrim|Antrim]]. A Catholic man and his Protestant wife lived there. She and her daughter were wounded.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''8 March''': the LVF issued threats against Protestant churchmen, business leaders and politicians who it claimed were "colluding" with the peace process.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''17 March''': the LVF claimed responsibility for an attempted bomb attack on St Comgall's parish centre in [[Larne]]. The building was packed with people celebrating [[Saint Patrick's Day]] when two men threw a bomb through the door. The bomb failed to explode and was defused.<ref name="cainchron98"/><ref>[http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/30245 "LVF bomb in Larne"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329051310/http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/30245 |date=29 March 2012 }}. ''An Phoblacht''. 19 March 1998.</ref>
*'''21 April''': the LVF killed Catholic civilian Adrian Lamph (29) in [[Portadown]]. A gunman cycled into his workplace—the Fairgreen [[Civic amenity site|amenity site]] on Duke Street—then singled him out and shot him. He was the first victim of the conflict since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''25 April''': the LVF shot dead a Catholic civilian, Ciaran Heffron (22), as he walked home in [[Crumlin, County Antrim|Crumlin]], County Antrim.<ref name="cainchron98"/> Meanwhile, 25 civilians escaped injury when a bomb was thrown into a Catholic-owned pub and restaurant at Aghinlig, County Armagh.<ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/news/loyalists-are-blamed-for-bomb-attack-on-bar-1.146412 "Loyalists are blamed for bomb attack on bar"]. Irish Times, 27 April 1998.</ref>
*'''15 May''': the LVF announced an "unequivocal ceasefire" which it hoped would encourage people to vote against the Good Friday Agreement.
*'''2 July''': the LVF was blamed for setting fire to ten Catholic churches in Northern Ireland. Churches were burnt over a ten-hour period in [[Crumlin, County Antrim|Crumlin]], [[Lisburn]], [[Dromore, County Down|Dromore]], [[Castlewellan]], [[Banbridge]], [[Laurencetown]], [[Tandragee]] and [[Dungannon]]. The attacks were believed to be a response to the banning of the Orange Order's Drumcree march.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/blair-damps-fires-of-hate-437811.html | work=Irish Independent | first1=Dominic | last1=Cunningham | first2=Eugene | last2=Moloney | title=Blair damps fires of hate | date=3 July 1998}}</ref> The LVF was also blamed for [[petrol bomb]]ing the homes of two Catholics in [[Derry]].<ref name="cainchron98"/>
*'''9 July''': The LVF threw a pipe bomb at a two vehicle mobile military patrol near Union street in Portadown.<ref name="judiciaryni.uk"/>
*'''9 July''': a [[improvised explosive device|blast bomb]] is thrown at police lines at Drumcree church by senior LVF volunteer [[William James Fulton]], which resulted in 4 officers being seriously injured when it detonated<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
*'''11 July''': an LVF gunman opened fire on British security forces manning a barricade blocking the Orange Order from marching at Drumcree.<ref>''Irish Examiner'', 13 July 1998</ref>
*'''15 July''': a package addressed to a [[Dublin]] hotel, which was believed to have been sent by the LVF, exploded while it was being examined at the [[Garda Technical Bureau]]. Two were injured in the blast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=199807150003|title=Incident Summary for GTDID: 199807150003|access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref>
*'''8 August''': the LVF issued a statement saying that its "war is over".