Somebody who might find it difficult to smuggle because of a Border post might go out and shoot a Border-post official? This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the . In May 1987, for instance, the SAS shot eight East Tyrone IRA volunteers whilst they attacked Loughgall . [41] Patrick Vincent was gunned down in the cab of the lorry whilst Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Peter Clancy where gunned down just outside. Michael Ryan was the same man who according to Moloney had led the mixed flying column under direct orders of top IRA Army Council member 'Slab' Murphy two years before. [103] On 27 May 1994, the British Army checkpoint at Aughnacloy was the target of an attack once again, when the compound came under automatic fire from an improvised tactical vehicle consisting of a Ford Transit van mounting a concealed heavy machine gun. In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. From the Sunday Tribune. [80], From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone carried out a dozen bomb and mortar attacks against RUC and military bases and assets. On 3 September 2012 prominent Real IRA member Alan Ryan was shot dead in Dublin. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. Although logically it makes more sense for Sinn Fin to start an armed campaign, that is not going to happen no chance, he says. In the aftermath of the bombing, on 9 May, a sergeant mayor of the 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment was shot and killed by a soldier of his company in a blue-on-blue incident at the same spot, while taking part of a security detail around the devastated base. For younger. Another IRA unit then directed heavy machine-gun fire at the front of the barracks, which provided cover for a bomb team to plant a 100lb (45kg) bomb inside. [31] An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. [123] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[124] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. [42] Whereas the previous ambushes of IRA men had been well planned by Special Forces, the Clonoe killings owed much to a series of mistakes by the IRA men in question. One British soldier was wounded. On 17 January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). The armed vehicle crossed the border after the engagement. [130] The latter attack led to loyalist allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh[131] in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region, to the point that they drew an analogy with contemporaneous ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' were shot dead by the SAS in a fierce gun battle at Loughgall on 8 May 1987. The reality of it is that after 25 years of armed conflict there is less possibility of an armed campaign of any significance. Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. [93], Other operations against security facilities in this period included a sniper and small arms attack on the British Army base of Killymeal, Dungannon, on 22 May 1993; the brigade claimed a subsequent exchange of fire between IRA volunteers in supporting role and British soldiers crewing an observation post. [26], On 11 February 1990 the brigade managed to shoot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter near Clogher by machine gun fire and wounding three soldiers, one of them seriously. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. . [5] Lynagh's plans met strong criticism from senior brigade member Kevin McKenna, who regarded the strategy as "too impractical, too ambitious, and not sustainable" in the words of journalist Ed Moloney. Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. Why would article 50 change that? [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. When the IRA responded by killing a retired UDR member, Leslie Dallas,[122] and two elderly Protestants, Austin Nelson and Ernest Rankin at Coagh, on 7 March 1989, the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. 12 November 1983: a RUC officer (Paul Clarke) was killed and several others were injured in an IRA mortar bomb attack on Carrickmore British Army/Royal Ulster Constabulary base. But the reality is that it is going to be more and more obvious, Lynagh says. The cops and the security services have been so on top of the armed republican groups that have been operating in the wake of the Provisional IRA. The air of foreboding he once sensed when crossing the river into the North doesnt exist today because the Border is imperceptible, he says. 14 March 1972: A two-man IRA unit armed with sub-machine guns ambushed a joint British Army/RUC patrol on Brackaville Road outside Coalisland, County Tyrone. The East Tyrone IRA saw its activities decline by the 1990s following repeated SAS ambushes. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. 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[23], A major IRA attack in County Tyrone took place on 20 August 1988, barely a year after Loughall, which ended in the deaths of eight soldiers when a British Army bus was destroyed by a bomb at Curr Road, near Ballygawley. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. Two RUC officers were shot dead and the base was raked with gunfire before being destroyed by a bomb. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. He was arrested in 1988 for crossing the Dutch-German border with AK-47 rifles in the boot of his car and charged with attacks on British soldiers based in Germany. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade[1] was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. The first phase of Lynagh's plan to drive out the British security forces from east Tyrone involved destroying isolated rural police stations and then intimidating or killing any building contractors who were employed to rebuild them. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. Maybe a lot of huff and puff but nothing is going to get blown down.. Fifty people were evacuated. His elder brother, a civilian contractor to the Ministry of Defence, had died in a South Armagh Brigade[64] mortar attack one year before, while working inside an Army base near Keady, County Armagh.[65]. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. [99][116] Another fatality was a Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) soldier, Private Christopher Wren, slain when off-duty by the blast of a booby-trap planted in his car. They brought peanuts and fed the squirrels, he says.. [95] The fortified[96] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. They could kill many British security force. No casualties were reported. He was sentenced to 20 years in 2011 but was released after two years, under the Belfast Agreement. We have been neglected, McKearney says, citing patchy broadband in parts of Co Monaghan as an example. Almost immediately another part-time soldier chanced upon the scene and opened fire on the fleeing gunmen who managed to escape by forcing a passing car to stop and raced off. The Tyrone republican believes that Sinn Fin is wrong to propose a special status for Northern Ireland within the European Union. The Volunteers killed at Loughgall were Declan Arthurs (21), Tony Gormley (24), Eugene Kelly (25), Pdraig McKearney (32), Jim Lynagh (31), Gerard O'Callaghan (28), Seamus Donnelly (19) and unit commander Patrick Joseph Kelly (30). The lifelong Irish republican even suggests that it could as easily be argued that breaking from the European Union and joining forces with the UK would make better economic sense for the country. A former IRA leader in east Tyrone has disputed claims that loyalists and republicans reached an "understanding" after a secret meeting in the early 1990s. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. The RUC patrol returned fire. Along with Lynagh and McKearney, the IRA gang included Gerard O'Callaghan, 29, Tony Gormley, 25, Eugene Kelly, 25, Patrick Kelly, 30, Seamus Donnelly, 19, and Declan Arthurs, 21. [28] On 16 September 1989, a British sergeant of the Royal Corps of Signals (Kevin Froggett) was shot and killed by an IRA sniper while he was repairing a radio mast at Coalisland Army/RUC base. While Brexit raises uncertainty around how the UK manages trade across a frontier running through those former battlefields, McKearney and Lynagh believe that the climate and conditions the anti-Catholic discrimination and economic inequality that ignited the Troubles no longer exist. [129] A former UDR soldier (David Martin) was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone on 25 April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[106] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. Now he has a doctorate in political science and writes a lively blog, the Pensive Quill, firing off opinions on the peace process, among other topics, and offering a platform to others. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. There is very, very little appetite among republican circles in the North for a resumption of any armed campaign. [79] An RUC report confirms that a bomb exploded close to a combined RUC-British Army patrol in the area. [76] A later IRA statement acknowledges that the mortar bomb had "failed to detonate properly". Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. McGeough is a supporter of the peace process and now president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Co Tyrone. In July 1983, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out a landmine ambush on an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) mobile patrol near Ballygawley, killing three UDR soldiers (a fourth UDR soldier died later). But as a community willing to return to armed conflict, there just isnt an appetite for that., Lynagh adds, There is a vested interest in hyping up the political impact and the scare tactics that it is going to open a hornets nest of dissident activity against British rule. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. The New IRA claimed responsibility for a potentially lethal bomb discovered under the car of a police officer at a golf club in east Belfast in June 2019. [107][108], There were also a number of roadside bomb and mortar attacks thwarted by the security forces in east and south Tyrone in this period. I dont see it has changed any bit since then, he says. Their brothers, Pdraig McKearney and Jim Lynagh, were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS during an attack on an RUC station in the Protestant village of. GAA Central Council officialreply was that The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. The Association is committed to a shared future based on tolerance for the different identities and cultural backgrounds of people who share this Community and this island. [15], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. I dont mean that in terms of violence. [56][57][58], A part-time RUC barracks at Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, in the operational area of the brigade, was destroyed by an IRA van-bomb on 7 May 1992, though the attack was claimed by the South Fermanagh Brigade. McIntyre sees the argument that unionists would be better off economically in a united Ireland within the EU than they would in a post-Brexit UK as a crass case of economic reductionism. A primed Mk-12 horizontal mortar was defused near Clogher on 9 April 1992 by British Army technicians,[109] while a trailer carrying a 'barrack buster' was recovered by security forces and also defused in the same area on 16 January 1994. The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. Lynagh's strategy was to start off with one area which the British military did not control, preferably a republican stronghold such as east Tyrone. The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. That was a security situation. "It was never going to be delivered by the normal means, by the Irish themselves, but it could come about through the break-up of the so-called United Kingdom," he says as he sits in an armchair in his living room, in front of shelves of history books that reflect his past studies at Trinity College Dublin and his background in teaching. McGeough sees the Troubles as ostensibly a failure, but the UK government does not want a return to those days any more than anybody on our side does. One RUC officer was injured. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. Jim Lynagh, member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), one of twelve children, is born on the Tully Estate, a housing estate in the townland of Killygowan on the southern edge of Monaghan, County Monaghan, on April 13, 1956.. Lynagh joins the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the early 1970s. [97][58][98], A major ambush occurred on 12 December 1993 in Fivemiletown, when an RUC mobile patrol received intense cross fire from a brigade's active unit on the town's main street, and two constables were slain. The Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA, or rIRA) was a republican militant group that operated during and after the Troubles in Northern Ireland. That same year, the Sinn. [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, List of notable actions from 1971 until Loughgall, Operations against British security forces in east and south Tyrone, List of actions from 1996 until the 1997 IRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 19:23. [64], Another IRA bomb attack on 12 May 1992, against British troops on patrol near Cappagh, in which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes on that date between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. But the reality is that it is going to be more and more obvious. It is of his great-grandfather Henry McGeough, a member of the Ribbonmen, the 19th-century society of often violent Catholic rebels. Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. [120] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". In 1988 he had been caught in possession of a 1,000lb bomb and sentenced to 16 years in prison. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. IRA veterans Brexit feature - pix Gerry McGeough Former Provisional IRA volunteer Gerry McGeough, who served time in prison for the attempted murder of a UDR man in 1981, on his farm near Dungannon, Co Tyrone. 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. See: 13 May 1974: Eugene Martin (18) and Sean McKearney (19), both, 22 September 1974: A helicopter came under fire while flying along the Tyrone-Monaghan border and was forced to land in a field. The British are sending a plausibly deniable mixed message. Three of the four are convicted killers or have served time in relation to a killing. [47][48], In October 1990, two IRA volunteers from the brigade (Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey) were shot dead near Loughgall by SAS undercover members while allegedly collecting two rifles from an IRA arms dump. 22 February 1997: An IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in $3, on its way to carry out an attack on a British security facility. He was arrested on the night of the count by the PSNI for the attempted murder of a part-time UDR soldier in 1981. [13], In December 2011, the Historical Enquiries Team found that not only did the IRA team fire first but that they could not have been safely arrested. Leading `Real IRA' member is shot dead in Ballymurphy. [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. [10] Lynagh's plans met strong criticism from senior brigade member Kevin McKenna, who regarded the strategy as "too impractical, too ambitious, and not sustainable" according to journalist Ed Moloney. [110] The RUC claim that the machine gun stolen in Coalisland and other arms were recovered from a farmhouse near Cappagh on 29 May 1992. [8] In April 1987 they shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main contractors to the British Army and the RUC in Northern Ireland. Wheres the insurrectionary energy going to come from? As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. Fresh claims about the meeting have. [134]There were a number of actions carried out by the IRA in the eastern part of Tyrone from 1996 up to the latest IRA ceasefire of July 1997: Risn McAliskey, daughter of political activist Bernadette McAliskey and suspected IRA member from Coalisland was accused by German authorities of being involved in a mortar attack on British Army facilities in Osnabrck, Germany, on 28 June 1996. This was denied by the dead man's family. This is the infrastructure that the European Union has created, and concentrating on a customs post in Aughnacloy is taking us off the core argument.. Neither republican sees a great prospect of a united Ireland after Brexit. There were no casualties. It was the biggest single loss of life for the republican movement during the conflict. Tommy's older brother Sean was killed in May 1974 when a bomb he was planting at a petrol station outside Dungannon exploded prematurely. In June 1991, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Peter Ryan and Tony Dorris were lured into yet another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was raked with gunfire and rocket propelled grenades. Patrick Joseph Kelly (19 March 1957 - 8 May 1987), was the Commander of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army during the mid-1980s until his death in a Special Air Service ambush at Loughgall, County Armagh in May 1987. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. [147], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. . Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. (2000). [21] Additionally, most of the attacks which took place in County Fermanagh during this period of the Troubles were also launched from south Tyrone and Monaghan. IRA veterans Brexit feature - pix Colm Lynagh and Tommy McKearneyFormer republican prisoner Colm Lynagh (left) and former Provisional IRA hunger striker Tommy McKearney in Monaghan Town. Meanwhile, in an interview in the Sunday Tribune [added link], Brian Arthurs has revealed that he was one of a number of former senior Provisional IRA members in Tyrone who, along with Sinn Fin party members, left Sinn Fin two years ago. [24], According to journalist Ed Moloney, Michael "Pete" Ryan, an alleged top Brigade's member, was the commander of the IRA flying column that attacked a permanent checkpoint at Derryard, County Fermanagh, on 13 December 1989. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. Both share left-wing views and believe that the interests of Border counties are not being well served by the European Union. The bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. 'United Ireland? [55][56][57], Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. After the shooting they drove past the house of Tony Doris, the IRA man killed the previous year, where they fired more shots in the air and were heard to shout, "Up the 'RA, that's for Tony Doris". jim martin death couples massage class san diego beaver falls football east tyrone brigade members. 25 Feb/23. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. [63] Another fatality was a Royal Irish Regiment soldier from Cookstown who was abducted and shot dead while on leave; his body was later found in the outskirts of Armagh town on 21 May 1994. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. Photographs: Simon Carswell. There will always be a handful of people, but there is nothing can be done about that in any society. 2 May 1974: Up to 40 members from the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade attacked the isolated 6 UDR Deanery base in Clogher, County Tyrone with machine gun and RPG fire resulting in the death of Private Eva Martin, a UDR Greenfinch, the first female UDR soldier to be killed by enemy action. We are faced with the possibility of two foreign powers implementing the partition of Ireland, and where is the demand in Ireland to say, What gives you the power to do this? , McKearney adds, It is economic imperialism we are dealing with, as opposed to the imperialism that was so raw and so in our face under British imperialism. He is now president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Co Tyrone. A NEW REPORT by Relatives for Justice into a British Army SAS ambush in 1992 that left four Tyrone IRA Volunteers dead says the men were killed in "a premeditated and pre-planned" attack when they could have been arrested instead. Its all guff': Colm Lynagh, Anthony McIntyre, Gerry McGeough and Tommy McKearney Colm Lynagh, Anthony McIntyre, Gerry McGeough and Tommy McKearney. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. Anthony McIntyre, an IRA man turned writer and historian who is another supporter of the peace process but critic of Sinn Fin, fails to see how a hard Brexit would fuel any new armed campaign, given that it was not the Border that brought the Provisional IRA into existence but the response in Belfast and Derry to the British armys behaviour when it came to the North. fechar. But these four veterans of the Provisional IRAs armed campaign, who are all now critics of Sinn Fin policy, do not think that Brexit will derail the peace process. 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