Funds for relief of distress are raised but Dublin politicians gradually withdraw involvement in situation. May Two RUC men killed by car bomb at Crossmaglen. June Three loyalists killed following a parade through a nationalist area of Belfast. The following week-end, two loyalists and a nationalist killed when mob attack a Catholic church in east Belfast. Four uninvolved civilians shot dead by British troops.
More refugees flee south.
August Another civilian killed by British troops. October Scandal in Dublin as two Cabinet Ministers and associates are accused in court of gun-running to the north. They are found not guilty. July Killing of two civilians by British troops in Derry forced SDLP to withdraw from Stormont. August Swoop and hundreds arrested by British troops for internment without trial.