When civil unrest broke out between Northern Irish Protestant and Catholic communities in the late 1960s, the British Army was deployed to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Its presence was made at the request of the unionist government of Northern Ireland and their role was to assert the authority of the British Government in a province that was becoming wracked with sectarian violence.
Spearheading the army’s operations in Northern Ireland was the Parachute Regiment, whose deployment lasted until 2005. All three battalions were regularly deployed
