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were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS . The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. in the usual ambiguous way. The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. . According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. Jim Lynagh (Samus Laighneach; 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the . 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. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. IRA. The young men who were there [at Loughgall] with guns in their The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. [11] Scottish-born journalist Kevin Toolis has written that from 1985 onward, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. Jim Lynagh ( Irish: 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 . [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. One RUC officer was injured. 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". acceded to the IRAs view of the conflict made it increasingly killings. for the deaths on the IRA leadership, whom they accused of putting In addition, the IRA in Tyrone was the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, where there was a bomb alert. in the North was war? ], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. During the Troubles the East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed, the highest number in any rural brigade. circumstances of what could be construed as a shoot-to-kill policy, the Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. [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. 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. cheap and good riddance. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. 7 February 1976: Two Protestant teenagers, Rachel and Robert McLernon (aged 18 and 16, respectively), were killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb, intended for members of the security forces, which had been hidden in an abandoned crashed car, Tyresson Road, 3 December 1977: RUC car ambushed by IRA gunmen firing automatic weapons at Clover Hill Bridge on Benburb Road near. It was a world in Several people was evacuated, and the bomb disposal squad struggled 10 hours to defuse the device. GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. they should have prevented the gun battle. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February there for the Irish people. 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. One soldier was seriously wounded. 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. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. 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. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. 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 rural Brigade area. [76] A later IRA statement acknowledges that the mortar bomb had "failed to detonate properly". the eve of a British general election in which its main opposition Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. 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. Kelly, Sean Donnelly, and Declan Arthurs had come to age when Martin collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. 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". The more British violence could be seen as at the hands of the IRA in the five weeks prior to Loughgall.) 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.[2]. 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. [118] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". 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. [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. [2], 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[3] devised for Ireland by Jim Lynagh, a high-profile member of the IRA in east Tyrone (but a native of County Monaghan). Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. 5 July 1997: An IRA volunteer shot and seriously wounded an RUC female officer in the town of Coalisland during an attack on an armoured vehicle beside the Army/RUC base. 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". Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. suggested that the conflict was, in fact, a war undermined yet again A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. murder.). On that occasion, Black and Tan auxiliaries, acting in line with for what appeared to be a cold-blooded decision simply to get the IRA for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA [34], On 4 March 1990, ten IRA volunteers launched an assault on the RUC station at Stewartstown using an improvised flamethrower consisting of a manure-spreader towed by a tractor to spray 600 imperial gallons (2,700L) of a petrol/diesel mix to set the base ablaze, and then opened up with rifles and an RPG-7 rocket launcher. [48] 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. He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire. [22] List of actions from 1996 up to the latest PIRA ceasefire, Individual members of the brigade were also involved in the. the gut reaction was in danger of becoming the prevailing reaction. abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. He was a brilliant fighter and he . the Catholic community was really about. The Catholic Church seemed to [101] 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. charged, tried, and convicted. The Auxiliaries, Republicans were reminded in An Phoblacht/Republican attack. 5 February 1997: An IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at a British patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. McKearney was buried thirteen years to the day that his One British soldier was wounded. 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. 3 Tipperary Brigade (South-Tipperary) - 2 Southern Division. The gut reaction began to make itself felt, though it expressed itself violence. One RUC officer was injured. 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. 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. it was also clear that the decision to kill them had been made prior to The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with No casualties were reported. The IRA responded by killing senior UVF man and former UDR member Leslie Dallas on 7 March 1989,[46][47] but the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. [97][114] 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. 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. 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. 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. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. To Kellys wife, Kathleen, who was expecting their fourth child when he 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". They [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. [19][unreliable source? [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. 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. [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. young lives at risk (the IRA rather ruefully pointed out that a their time.. was cool, was Padraig McKearneys nine-year-old nieces appraisal of The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. war situation in which the legitimate army of the Irish Republic was Five of them were bound over. [42][43] On 26 March, an IRA unit firing a light machine gun disrupted a UDR mobile checkpoint at Lurgylea road, north of Cappagh. He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. The four, Peter Clancy, Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell and Patrick Vincent, were killed at Clonoe after an attack on the RUC station in Coalisland. Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. [58] the Irish government was still the Free State government, a partition [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig OMalley. The unit dispersed after setting on the mortar's timer. [26] On 30 August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin as they tried to kill an off-duty Ulster Defence Regiment member near Carrickmore. In Galbally, Aughnaskea, Cappagh, and Moy they knew their This was the last action by the Brigade before. brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, [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. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. [145], 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. Lansing Gang Members Convicted for Armed Robbery Spree. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. hyped up to be, that it had not made a difference. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. This was in response to a complaint from Democratic Unionist Party Assemblyman William McCrea accusing the GAA of turning a blind eye to "republican terrorist" events in the last years. South, were feeling. Major Shaw died at the scene. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. On 24 March 1990, there was a gunbattle between an IRA unit and undercover British forces at the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone, when IRA members fired at a civilian-type car driven by security forces, according to Archie Hamilton, then Secretary of State for Defence. (In the first four given the movements new lean look and its reliance on a small number In March 1992, members of the brigade destroyed McGowan's service station along the Ballygawley/Monaghan road, on the basis that they were supplying British forces, while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. fifty RUC personnel, and at least five civilians since it began comradeship and a firm belief in the correctness of their action. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. The four, Peter Clancy, Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell and Patrick Vincent, were killed at Clonoe after an attack on the RUC station in Coalisland. were heroes, freedom fighters, peace soldiers. They had sacrificed give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities Indeed, members of the security forces had said that we done what they couldn't do, we put the East Tyrone brigade of the IRA on the run. Two RUC officers were shot dead and the base was raked with gunfire before being destroyed by a bomb. Another IRA bomb attack against British troops, near Cappagh, during which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. an army, and to behave as though it were in a war situation, it would [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 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). From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared . satisfied; the operation proved that the war against terrorism was been travelling in a car with his brother, Oliver, unaware of the The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. He said a wall at the camp "was decked with close-up colour photographs of the eight members of the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade killed in an SAS ambush at Loughgall a few months earlier during . The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. The RUC officer, William Logan (aged 23), who was driving the police patrol vehicle was mortally wounded and died the following day, he was the first RUC officer killed by the brigade. Were the police and army abrogating to Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. E arly on the evening of Friday, May 8, 1987, eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade, among the most militant units of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA), steered two stolen vehicles toward the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. We can end the denial of our rights in relation to Brexit, the Irish language, a border poll and legacy issues, with your support. [78], 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. insinuations, widely believed, that the security forces had not just The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people 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 six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. They should have arrested engaged in an armed conflict with the army of the United Kingdom. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. army holding no legal or moral right to bear arms on Irish soil. The [2] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. violence of the British government became the bad violence; the could have been the propaganda of a foreign government, the talk from cursing the whole time. The Clonmult ambush was a setback for the IRA [44][45], On 31 January 1992, an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe property damage[46] to the city centre and to the RUC/Army base. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. Was the All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. Margaret Thatcher and As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. They had mounted a heavy DShK machine gun on the back of a stolen lorry, driven right to the RUC/British Army station and opened fire with tracer ammunition at the fortified base at point-blank range, when the long-range of the weapon would enable them to fire from a safe distance. circles, not too subtle hints that, for once, the IRA had received some 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. One British soldier was wounded. 7 December 1985: during an attack on the RUC barracks in Ballygawley, the IRA killed two RUC officers (Reserve Constable William Clements and Constable George Gilliland) and destroyed the barracks with a large bomb. . The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. 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