. That was not to do with economics. The support team sprayed the installations with a burst of gunfire, but the mortar overshot the compound, damaging an adjacent church. [127] On 11 January 1993 a former sergeant of the B-Specials (Matthew Boyd)[128] was shot dead while driving his car along Donaghmore Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. Anybody who has ever fought in the Provisional IRA, as distinct to those who hid in the Provisional IRA, or joined after the ceasefires, will never live to see a united Ireland, Dissidents who backed Brexit with the objective of destabilising the UK are not going to wage an armed campaign, he says. British military sources reported that other IRA volunteers from East Tyrone were involved in the assault. 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]. The Irish . [99][100], On 9 April 1994, after a three-day IRA ceasefire, a Mark-15 mortar was launched at midday at the British Army permanent checkpoint in Aughnacloy. Video: Simon Carswell. From 1985 onwards, the IRA in East Tyrone had been the forefront of a wide IRA campaign against British military facilities. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. 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. This is the story of the war in the fields, towns and villages of East Tyrone, as told by the people who fought it. [15][16] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. [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. He does not see republican militarism rising up again over a post-Brexit hardening of the Border or a customs presence on country Border roads, although he does believe that it would hit an atavistic nerve among people who have grown accustomed to freedom of movement across the Border. McKearney and Lynagh are dissenters, not dissidents; although they support the peace process they object to the policies pursued by Sinn Fin and some of their former comrades who moved into politics. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. British troops manning the outpost returned fire. [33] In October 1990, two IRA volunteers from the brigade, Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey, were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers while allegedly collecting two rifles from an IRA arms dump. [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. [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. [92], 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,[85] prompted the evacuation of a nearby housing state. [39] On 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage[40] both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. [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. 25 April 1987: an off duty British soldier (William Graham) was shot dead by the IRA at his family's farm, off Gortscraheen Road, near Pomeroy. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. He was sentenced to 20 years in 2011 but was released after two years, under the Belfast Agreement. Ed Moloney. Wheres the insurrectionary energy going to come from? The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. Policewoman shot as nationalist anger at Drumcree parade spreads across Northern Ireland", "British soldier shot dead Massive Strabane landmine", "South Armagh Brigade claims sniper attack", Cousin of bomb suspect was top Provo; But gun victim denies being a terrorist, "Militants Angry About Police's Defense Of Protestant March". Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. 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. 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. 15 March 1974: Patrick McDonald (21) and Kevin Murray (27), both. 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. [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. Fresh claims about the meeting have. McKearney, one of the 1980 IRA hunger strikers who went without food for 53 days, sits in his Co Monaghan kitchen next to Colm Lynagh, sipping coffee and eating biscuits, reflecting on the unknown period with Brexit ahead. Tusk has said that the EU will seek "flexible and creative solutions" to avoid a hard Border. I just mean in terms of chaos and upheaval political, economic and otherwise.. 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. What would it achieve? McIntyre says in his home, on an estate in Drogheda, Co Louth. For younger. 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. [119] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. 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. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). There were no injuries. This is not a land of milk and honey under the European Union. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. [Its] not about what are their economic interests. Somebody who might find it difficult to smuggle because of a Border post might go out and shoot a Border-post official? [27] According to author Nick Van der Bijl, British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the bombing of the military bus at Curr Road. [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 any bloodshed coming from our side. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. "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. [104][58], Sources from the brigade released a detailed statement on the attack on Pomeroy security base, carried out on 26 June 1994, claiming that they had fired a single 220 pounds (100kg) Mark-15 barrack-buster bomb. 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. After breaking from Sinn Fin he stood as an independent republican in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Although logically it makes more sense for Sinn Fin to start an armed campaign, that is not going to happen no chance, he says. They could kill many British security force. "They should be pushing instead for a united Ireland, that the day the UK leaves Europe is the same day they leave Ireland," he says. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. [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. [5] The first was an assault on Ballygawley barracks. Even a few customs posts stopping HGVs crossing the Border would not change that, McKearney says. The same source reported that a British helicopter, a military ambulance and ground troops arrived to the scene shortly after, and that local residents believed that two soldiers had been wounded. He pours cold water on the possibility of a nationalist majority in the North voting for Irish reunification in light of the unionists losing their majority for the first time in last months Assembly elections. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. They were active in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the Troubles, and for three of them much of that activity took place along the Border. One RUC officer was injured. [94][95] RUC sources denied that the soldiers returned fire during the shooting. This was the last action by the Brigade before. Film report. In 1985 and 1986, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". 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. A soldier was seriously wounded. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. [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. [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. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. 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. Five Sinn Fin cumainn, and 90% of the East Tyrone Brigade, left in the move. According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. In October 1990, two more IRA men, Dessie Grew and Michael McGaughey were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers. [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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [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. I dont see that., It is going to be very embarrassing for a lot of Irish political parties that almost pretended that partition was going. 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). 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. Death made heroes of the Loughgall eight. [53] Author Brendan O'Brien reports a witness claiming that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were killed by the British soldiers. 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. The East Tyrone IRA saw its activities decline by the 1990s following repeated SAS ambushes. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. Not far from that Border town is the home of Gerry McGeough, a former IRA man who calls himself a traditional republican rather than a dissident. The East Tyrone Brigade members killed at Loughgall in 1987 consisted of: * Commander Patrick Kelly (aged 30) * Jim Lynagh (aged 31) * Pdraig McKearney (aged 32) * Declan Arthurs (aged 21) * Seamus Donnelly (aged 19) * Eugene Kelly (aged 25) * Gerry O'Callaghan (aged 29) * Tony Gormley (aged 25) Eugene Kelly [41] [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. [120] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. [53][54], 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. Three of the four are convicted killers or have served time in relation to a killing. [61][62] 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. [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. 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. 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. We have been neglected, McKearney says, citing patchy broadband in parts of Co Monaghan as an example. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. 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. Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. [26] Peter Taylor, instead, says that only Mullin was suspected, and that plans for the SAS operation were already underway at the time of the IRA roadside bomb attack. Five were bound over. Fifty people were evacuated. [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. Toggle navigation. [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. Two RUC officers were shot dead and the base was raked with gunfire before being destroyed by a bomb. They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. [95] The fortified[96] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. McGeough points to the "huge statement" last week by David Davis, the UK's Brexit secretary formally, secretary of state for exiting the European Union who said that Northern Ireland would not have to reapply for EU membership as a new state if it voted for reunification with the Republic. A third former republican paramilitary suggests that Ireland would be better off in an economic bloc with the UK rather than with the European Union. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. Tommy's older brother Sean was killed in May 1974 when a bomb he was planting at a petrol station outside Dungannon exploded prematurely. 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. It was the biggest single loss of life for the republican movement during the conflict. He has vivid childhood memories of seeing the Moy Bridge and the road to his grandmothers home in Monaghan lying in the Blackwater River after being blown up the night before by B Specials members of the Ulster Special Constabulary quasi-military reserve. Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. Anybody who has ever fought in the Provisional IRA, as distinct to those who hid in the Provisional IRA, or joined after the ceasefires, will never live to see a united Ireland, he says. A member of an IRA unit who survived a deadly SAS ambush at Loughgall which claimed the lives of eight republicans has broken his silence for the first time on the 30th anniversary. in Co Tyrone, on November 29 1989. 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. One British soldier was wounded. 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. [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. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. 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 main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. This is the only concern for this area: how can we pacify them and stop them engaging in any violent activity? A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. The New Irish Republican Army, or New IRA, . 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. An IRA statement claimed the 3rd Battalion of the, 7 November 1974: Two British soldiers, Vernon Rose (aged 30) and Charles Simpson (aged 35) were killed by an IRA booby trap bomb at an electricity sub station at Aghalarg, near, 25 November 1975: two RUC officers, Samuel Clarke (aged 35) and Patrick Maxwell (aged 36), were killed when their mobile patrol was caught in an IRA sniper ambush in Clonavaddy, near. 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. 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. . An Phoblacht claimed the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. Two more McKearney brothers died in the Troubles. ], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. [19] The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. 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. From the Sunday Tribune. Gerry McGeough, who is now a farmer, served time in German, US and Northern Irish prisons for paramilitary-related offences, including trying to buy Stinger surface-to-air missiles in 1983 with the aim of taking down British army helicopters. Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[106] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. I dont think we are going to see that again.. This was denied by the dead man's family. [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. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. [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. They also claimed that during the follow-up search, British Army technicians defused with a controlled explosion a 50 pounds (23kg) mortar round, fired three years before. The embarrassment is that a customs man might arrive and show that there is a Border.. See: Attack on UDR Clogher barracks 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. 7 September 1981: two RUC officers (Mark Evans and Stuart Montgomery) were killed when their patrol vehicle struck an IRA landmine at Sessadonaghy, near. He was arrested on the night of the count by the PSNI for the attempted murder of a part-time UDR soldier in 1981. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads, near Cookstown. 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. [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. I know from the old days there were very few people willing to do the business of fighting. 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. He explains to Simon Carswell how Brexit is the best thing ever for Irish nationalists and republicans. 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. [60], From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone executed a total of eight mortar attacks against police and military facilities and were also responsible for at least 16 bombings and shootings. 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. An inquest into their deaths. According to them, a second 264 pounds (120kg) device was defused in the follow-up operation. 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