attack on Grosvenor Road PSNI base in Belfast. Two gunmen forced a taxi driver to drive the bomb to the base. It was made safe by security forces. 20 January: The CIRA was believed to have been responsible for planting a pipe bomb under a van at Belcamp Crescent, Dublin. It was made safe by security forces. Two men were arrested nearby. 5 July: A telephone caller, claiming to be from the CIRA, said a bomb had been thrown at a PSNI vehicle the day before in Keady, County Armagh. Security forces examined a suspicious device on Kinelowen Street, but later declared it was an elaborate hoax. 12 July: The CIRA was blamed for attacking PSNI officers with blast bombs during rioting in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, following an Orange Order parade. Eighty officers were injured, one seriously, and several people were arrested. 6 November: In a telephoned warning, the CIRA claimed responsibility for planting a hoax bomb during the Down Royal horse racing festival. The festival was abandoned. 8 December: A suspected CIRA member was arrested while driving a bomb through Dublin. Gardaí believe the device was intended for use against drugs gangs in the city. The man, Martin O'Rourke, was subsequently sentenced to seven years imprisonment for possession of an explosive device. 26 December: The CIRA again sent a hoax bomb alert to a horse race at Down Royal. The site was evacuated but nothing was found. 2006 9 November: The CIRA was believed to be responsible for firing shots at a PSNI base in Keady, County Armagh. 7 December: The CIRA was believed to be responsible for planting a pipe bomb outside a PSNI base in Lurgan, County Armagh. It failed to explode. 2007 12 March: The CIRA shot dead two of its former members in response to the establishment of a rival group. 11 November: The IMC blamed the CIRA for a coffee jar bomb during a British Army Remembrance Day service in Newry. The explosives were detonated inside the barrel of a ceremonial cannon during the traditional 11 am silence. No one was injured and Army technical officers who examined the cannon thought it was a jar containing fireworks. 2008 2 January: A CIRA unit fired a volley of shots over the grave of ex-RSF Patron Dan Keating at Kiltallagh Cemetery on what would have been his 106th birthday. 13 February: The IMC