That same night (the 14th) a loyalist mob burned all of the Catholic homes on Bombay Street.

A "loyalist mob, several thousand strong" attempted to storm the Catholic Falls Road, carrying petrol and other flammable materials.

More were beaten to death in the streets or lynched from lampposts by angry loyalist mobs.

During rioting in Belfast, a grenade was thrown at a loyalist mob advancing towards a nationalist area.

There were also strong suggestions that police knew when loyalist attacks were to happen and seemed to disappear from some Catholic areas shortly before loyalist mobs attacked.

There were reports that USC officers were spotted hiding among loyalist mobs, using coats to hide their uniforms.

Sunday 1 June 1997: Gregory Taylor, an off-duty RUC constable, died following a beating he received from a loyalist mob.

These were intended to prevent access to the army, police, and loyalist mobs, and many were impassable even to the British Army's one-ton armoured vehicles.

It commemorates the sectarian murder of my paternal grandfather's brother, who was beaten and stabbed to death by a loyalist mob very close by during the Troubles.

During this time he rescued a Catholic girl from a loyalist mob who had set her family home on fire.