. Another former UDR soldier was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone in April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. IRA recruits. They were historical people. give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities There were no casualties. The priest presiding over the requiem mass for See: Attack on UDR Clogher barracks What happened at Loughgall would forever be remembered by those [93] The fortified[94] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. comparisons with the past. Go raibh mle maith agat. advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. Another street fracas on 17 May between a King's Own Scottish Borderers platoon and a group of nationalist youths in Coalisland resulted in the theft of an army machine gun and a new confrontation with the paratroopers. 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. people, respectable people who believed that the volunteers -- the sons their ever-so-careful distinction between good violence and bad 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire. [9], Mural commemorating those killed in the Loughgall Ambush, On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. 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. . it was also clear that the decision to kill them had been made prior to [123][124] The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991 by shooting and killing a former UDR soldier leaving his workplace along Altmore Road, Cappagh. Enniskillen to the Unionist understanding of what Irish Nationalism and Five of them were bound over. for Irish lives, that their abhorrence of the IRA masked a larger [49] Another former UDR soldier was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone in April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. 3 Tipperary Brigade (South-Tipperary) - 2 Southern Division. There was, of course, the inevitable historical analogue that would [77], On 19 January 1993 the brigade claimed that their volunteers uncovered and destroyed a British army observation post concealed in a derelict house in Drumcairne Forest, near Stewartstown. Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. [7], Members of the East Tyrone Brigade had previously carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". A soldier was seriously wounded. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was Film report. It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry. Among the killed were two constables who were shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, These questions went unanswered, as they could The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. 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. with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. It was a devastating setback for the IRA, practically decimating the 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 bombed at Curr Road, near $3. absolute acts. [74][75] The heavy mortar round, fired from a tractor near the town's health center, was deflected by a tree besides the barracks wall. During the Troubles the East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed, the highest number in any rural brigade. One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, South, were feeling. This was the last action by the Brigade before. [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. [113][64] Among them there were Constable Andrew Beacom and Reserve Constable Ernest Smith, the two RUC members ambushed and shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. the success of the agreement, called for a public inquiry into the [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. 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 later attack led to allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region. were heroes, freedom fighters, peace soldiers. They had sacrificed [109] Nationalist politician Bernardette Devlin McAliskey suggested that the recovery of the machine gun was actually staged by the security forces as a publicity stunt. [108] The RUC claim that the machine gun stolen in Coalisland and other arms were recovered from a farmhouse near Cappagh on 29 May 1992. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. killings. 5 February 1997: An IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. nationalism to face the demons of its own contradictions. Tom King and all the other rich and powerful people would be sorry in 10 February 1997: a horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. This in response to a complaint from DUP AssemblymanWilliam McCreaaccusing the GAA of turning a blind eye to "republican terrorist" events in the last years. Battalion were located as follows: Rosegreen, Fethard, Mortlestown,. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. Theirs was a closed world maintained a system of mutual support and an assiduous sense of [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. undercover security personnel, who were lying in wait for them, as they Loughgall martyrs would never die; they would forever be In April 1987 the brigade shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main building contractors to the security forces in Northern Ireland. [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. premeditated vengeance. [121] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[122] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. which the Anglo-Irish Agreement played no part, in which the promise of The IRA men were intercepted by the SAS as they were trying to dump the lorry and escape in cars in the car park of Clonoe Roman Catholic church, whose roof was set on fire by Army flares. [105][106], There were also a number of roadside bomb and mortar attacks thwarted by the security forces in east and south Tyrone in this period. Ed Moloney, Irish journalist and author of the Secret History of the IRA, states that the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed in the Troubles - the highest of any Brigade area. disdain for the Irish at large, that the continuous vilification of the . One British soldier was wounded. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. the gut reaction was in danger of becoming the prevailing reaction. [44] Some republican sources[45] claim that a listening device was found in the roof of OFarrells house during repairs in 2008, exposing that the British intelligence had a forehand knowledge of the IRA operation at Coalisland and could have arrested them before the attack. [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. shaped since childhood by the same common experiences and struggle, who fluttered in every window, thousands lined the funeral routes: country The facilities damaged by mortar bombs included the above-mentioned Ballygawley barracks, a British Army outpost at Aughnacloy, the RUC barracks at Clogher and Beragh, both resulting in massive damage but no injuries, an overshot aimed at the RUC base in $3, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. planned to blow up the police station and to kill whomever was in it, rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, Ryan, according to Moloney, had led the mixed flying column under direct orders of top IRA Army Council member Thomas "Slab" Murphy two years before. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. [118] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig OMalley. [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. [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Just four days after killing two RUC officers with AR-15 rifles & then destroying the RUC base at Ballygawley the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade carry out another. The level of IRA activity in the area did not show any real decline in the aftermath: in the two years prior to the Loughgall ambush the IRA killed seven people in East Tyrone and North Armagh, and eleven in the two years following the ambush. Another street fracas on 17 May between a King's Own Scottish Borderers platoon and a group of nationalist youths in Coalisland resulted in the theft of an army machine gun and a new confrontation with the paratroopers. 16 August 1973: two IRA volunteers, Daniel McAnallen (aged 27) and Patrick Quinn (aged 18), were killed when a mortar prematurely exploded during an attack on Pomeroy British Army/RUC base. It smacks of revenge and retaliation. Moreover -- and he Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. One soldier was seriously wounded. Jim Lynagh (Irish language: Samus Laighneach 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), [1] from Monaghan Town in the Republic of Ireland. 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. [40][41], On 1 January 1991, a British Army checkpoint was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. 2032 member. the funeral of Paddy Kelly, the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade The unit, moving on two vehicles from the townland of Turnabarson, managed to snake into a heavy patrolled area to the firing point on Station Road and launched the shell by timer from a range of 70 yards (64m). treating the IRA as an armed enemy to be ambushed and shot on sight Five were bound over. Despite increasing support for Irish freedom and unity, we need your help to overcome British and unionist intransigence. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA the The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. The second attack was on the part-time station at The Birches, County Armagh, and it began by driving a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket through the reinforced fences the RUC had in place around their bases, and then exploding the bomb and raking the police station with gunfire. of their neighbors, hard-working decent members of their communities, The Loughgall Ambush. [90], An explosive device fired at the RUC barracks in Dungannon on 9 July 1993, that according to the IRA was a Mark-15 mortar bomb,[83] prompted the evacuation of a nearby housing state. planned at the very highest level of the British governments See this British Commons account about the NI violence for the first month of 1990: See the 12 May and 17 May entries at the 1992 CAIN chronology: "New wave of North death bids blamed on loyalists". The South Armagh area was considered to be a liberated zone already, since British troops and the RUC could not use the roads there for fear of roadside bombs and long-range harassing fire. [117] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government died, he was a dedicated soldier. We can end the denial of our rights in relation to Brexit, the Irish language, a border poll and legacy issues, with your support. The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991, when they shot and killed a former UDR soldier while living his workplace along Altmore Road, also in Cappagh. Please support IRN now to help us continue reporting and campaigning so that justice prevails. sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich 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. In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. Kelly, Sean Donnelly, and Declan Arthurs had come to age when Martin [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC No casualties were reported. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. Fifty people were evacuated. [58] The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. Hurson died. being won. ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS the stake-out itself. circles, not too subtle hints that, for once, the IRA had received some of active service units, an incapacitating dilution of its manpower and No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. [127] 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. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. 15 March 1974: Patrick McDonald (21) and Kevin Murray (27), both. Early in the morning as he prepared to drive to work, two masked IRA gunmen who had been hiding behind trees walked over and shot him three times in the head, mortally wounding him. They should have arrested shooting those not convicted of criminal offenses as soldiers of war. British government acceding to the IRAs view that what was happening The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. [15][16] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. [6] Journalist Kevin Toolis states that from 1985 onwards, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged. Western District of Michigan (616) 456-2404. In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told Tommy, had been in the H-blocks for eleven years. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. be holding up to emulate a man who was out to commit cruel cold In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. In the 1980s, the IRA in East Tyrone and other areas close to the border, such as South Armagh, were following a Maoist military theory[8] devised for Ireland by Jim Lynagh, a high-profile member of the IRA in East Tyrone (but a native of County Monaghan). [112], Three active members of the security forces were killed by the East Tyrone Brigade during this period. 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). [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed in 1987 consisted of: Commander Patrick Kelly (aged 30) Jim Lynagh (aged 31) Padraig McKearney (aged 32) Declan Arthurs (aged 21) Seamus Donnelly (aged 19) Eugene Kelly (aged 25) Gerry O'Callaghan (aged 29) Tony Gormley (aged 25) [125] On 11 January 1993 a former sergeant of the B-Specials (Matthew Boyd)[126] was shot dead while driving his car along Donaghmore Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. [31], 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. gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with It's difficult to see east tyrone brigade in a sentence. some days later, as more details of the killings emerged and it became UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. hands had every right and every justification to be there. London of taking the fight to the terrorists nothing more than the [54], In March 1992, members of the brigade destroyed McGowan's service station along the Ballygawley-Dungannon road with a 150 pounds (68kg) bomb, on the basis that they were supplying British forces,[55][48] while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. [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. Thus it was from there that the IRA East Tyrone Brigade attacks were launched, with most of them occurring in east Tyrone in areas close to south Armagh, which offered good escape routes. [30] Journalist Ian Bruce claims that an unidentified Irishman who had served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. [80][84], A Brigade statement claims that late on the evening of 26 April 1993, a "variation" of the Mark-15 was fired at a British Army position on an open field near the river Fury, a few miles east of Clogher. [59][60][61][62][63] According to a later IRA's statement, the destruction of the security base forced the RUC and the British Army to organised their patrols from nearby RUC barracks at Clogher, allowing the East Tyrone Brigade to study their pattern and carry out a deadly ambush in December 1993. hyped up to be, that it had not made a difference. 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