IRA accused of other crimes
The Provisional IRA has been accused of other crimes since the Belfast Agreement in April 1998.
November 2004: Niall Binéad and Kenneth Donohoe were convicted of IRA membership in the Special Criminal Court.
November 2004: Independent Monitoring Commission report indicated the IRA was still creaming millions of pounds from robberies and smuggling in Northern Ireland. It blamed the IRA for a multi-million pound robbery of goods from the Makro store in Dunmurry in May. Up to the end of September 2003 republicans were blamed for 52 "punishment" shootings; to the end of last September republicans were accused of 22 such shootings.
February 2004: PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde said the IRA was responsible for an alleged abduction of dissident republican Mr Bobby Tohill (47) in Belfast city centre and for punishment beatings.
December 2003: Gardaí and PSNI stated the hijack of a truck carrying 2.3 million cigarettes worth about €1.6 had all the hallmarks of an IRA operation.
September 2003: Mr Orde said the Provisional IRA had been "engaged in some low-level" intimidation of members of the District Policing Partnerships.
May 2003: PSNI said IRA members were involved in the abduction and disappearance of Armagh man Mr Gareth O'Connor.
November 2002: The PSNI claimed it had smashed an IRA espionage operation in Stormont and at the former RUC Special Branch offices in Castlereagh the previous March. The new acting deputy chief constable, Mr Alan McQuillan, said police had destroyed "a major intelligence unit within the IRA".
October 2002: Police raided the offices of Sinn Féin at the Assembly.
October 2002: Assistant Chief Constable Sam Kincaid said the Provisional IRA was responsible for shooting Mr Daniel McBrearty (54), a bus driver, in the Creggan area of Derry.
March 2002: Documents were stolen from the offices of an intelligence unit at the heavily-fortified Castlereagh police station in east Belfast. Police blamed the IRA, and said they recovered lists of names of British politicians.
August 2001: Three men were arrested in Bogota, Colombia, accused of selling the IRA's expertise in making car-bombs and mortars to Marxist FARC guerrillas. They were cleared of the most serious charges, but jailed for 17 years on appeal last month. They are now on the run.
October 2000: The IRA was blamed for the murder of dissident republican Mr Joe O'Connor in west Belfast
June 2000: The RUC chief constable, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, said there were "intelligence indications" that the IRA shot dead a Belfast drug-dealer, Edmund McCoy, on May 28th.
August 1999: Then NI Secretary, Dr Mo Mowlam, said she accepted security advice which indicated that members of the Provisional IRA killed Mr Charles Bennett (22) in west Belfast the previous month, and that its members were also involved in the Florida-based gun-smuggling operation.
July 1999: US authorities in Florida arrested three Irish people accused of gun-running and said the operation was ordered by the IRA. In 2000, they were jailed.
February 1999: Four IRA men Kevin Walsh, Pearse McAuley, Jeremiah Sheehy and Michael O'Neill were sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment for the shooting dead of Det Garda Jerry McCabe.
Sinn Féin leadership sought to have the men included in the prisoner early-release scheme.
July 1998: RUC confirmed the IRA shot dead Belfast man Mr Andy Kearney.