Well done Brendy, and thank you for your scholarship. Here's a view of the last week and a half.

LITANY OF VIOLENCE But as darkness fell last night, road-blockings held by women and children moved away and paramilitaries took over. Some of the worst of the Night of the Eleventh flared on the Corcrain estate, Portadown, where a crowd burned effigies of an RUC man and a "Fenian" and showered the security forces with stones, blast bombs and petrol bombs. Yesterday, a bomb was thrown from a car into a pub in the nationalist village of Dunloy, County Antrim and another was discovered in the grounds of an Ancient Order of Hibernians' Hall in Rusharkin. Both failed to explode. A woman and her six-year-old child escaped injury when a brick was hurled through their car window at Finaghy Road North in Belfast. There were two attempts to burn down Catholic churches in County Antrim -- St Mary's Church in Glenarm and the Catholic chapel in Ballyclare. In a reprisal by nationalists, an Orange Hall at Aghalee was attacked by petrol bombs at midnight. A number of people were in the building at the time, three of whom were taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. Yesterday afternoon, shops and businesses in Belfast, Portadown, Lurgan, Ballymoney, Kilrea, Coleraine, Downpatrick and Lisburn were forced to close under the threat of more trouble by loyalists. A Dungannon restaurant was badly damaged in a petrol bomb attack, while a tyre depot in Armagh was hit by a similar attack. Six lorries and a storage unit were damaged in a malicious fire started in a Dungannon mushroom factory. Tyres were set alight at the rear of a filling station on the Belfast Road in Ballynahinch, causing damage to a shed and garden furniture. Four cars and the facade of a petrol station which doubled as a car showroom suffered in a malicious fire on the Dublin Road in Omagh. A number of cars, a van, a lorry, and even a milk float were taken and set on fire in Derry, Craigavon, Dromore, Newtownabbey, Antrim, Derriaghy and Bushmills. The Larne road at Ballynure was closed by a mob of 300 loyalists who blocked it with a barricade and managed to spill 45 gallons of oil across it. Just after midnight, security forces and the fire brigade were petrol bombed during disturbances in Dromore, County Down. Petrol bombs were also hurled at a Catholic church on the Doagh Road, Ballyclare, causing scorch damage to a hall adjacent to the chapel. One person was arrested following the attack, which occurred at 1.40am. In Carrickfergus two houses had windows broken by stone throwers. In Belfast, a blast bomb was thrown at around 1am. No injuries were reported, although minor damage was caused to a police vehicle. The RUC reported seven shots fired at an RUC vehicle at the junction of Templemore Avenue and Albertbridge Road in east Belfast. No one was injured. Petrol bombs were thrown on the Ravenhill Road in the city, at Drumcree and on the West Circular Road in Bangor. More were thrown on Irish Street in Derry. Drumcree Hill, where Orangemen are gathered in protest at not being allowed to march through the Garvaghy Road, has been surprisingly quiet. There have been small numbers there for the past two nights, although it is predicted that violence might resume as Orangemen return from today's County Armagh rally at Killylea. The RUC said that over the past ten days, seventy-seven homes, 55 commercial premises and 358 vehicles have been damaged, and 88 vehicles hijacked. But only 72 people have been charged -- an average of just over seven per night. ------------------------------------ It makes me marvel at the dedication and committment of the IRA to maintain its ceasefire.