25 July 1994 - A British soldier was shot and wounded by the IRA in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. [21] Three months later, a further four RUC officers were killed by a 900 lb roadside bomb at Killean, County Armagh.[22]. let flipPayConfig = { It is Pearse's message and it has not changed. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. 24 January Tony Harker, a 21-year-old Catholic civilian, is shot dead by the UDR in disputed circumstances outside a supermarket on the Keady Road. This page was last edited on 13 July 2022, at 18:49. Web Site Copyright 1995-2023 WGBH Educational Foundation. if (isGrantedBy('whitelist_rule')) { return { if (isGrantedBy('app_purchase')) { 13 April 38-year-old Territorial Army sergeant Trevor Elliott from Alexander Gardens in the city is shot dead by the Provisional IRA as he walked from his shop in Keady, south Armagh. He had just finished his last shift in the regiment when he was shot outside his home. Following intelligence that the IRA were using farms as bases of operations / weapons caches, the Police, assisted by Army intelligence operatives, began a series of surveillance and search operations. At that moment, a gun battle was taking place on the ground between British soldiers and members of the South Armagh Brigade. Between 1971 and the erection of the hilltop sites in the mid-1980s (the first in 1986), 84 members of the security forces were killed in the Crossmaglen and Forkhill areas by the IRA. } catch (e) { if (window.GTMLoaded === true) { 27 November 34-year-old former RUC member John Martin is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his filling station on the Mall. vars.user.gigyaID = gigyaID || ''; 8 November 17-year-old Protestant Trevor Foster dies in a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explosion meant for his father, a member of the UDR. return 'epaper-access'; } }); Now it has been learned that the south Armagh 'OC' was outed as a tout earlier this year and that shortly afterwards an IRA bodyguard team was sent from Belfast to ensure that no attack was made on the man in order to save embarrassment for the organisation. item_group_code: "pfc_indo", It is not clear how the 'OC' came to be exposed as an agent but he is believed to have been recruited by British Intelligence in the late 1980s or early 1990s. window.IMP.config = flipPayConfig; The gunmen then escaped in a Ford Cortina which was found abandoned a short time later in the Windmill Hill area of the city. His killing happened one day before his 30th birthday. In an area with a population of 23,000, the British Army stationed around 3,000 troops in support of the RUC to contain an unknown number of paramilitaries. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { She was then carried out of the house and taken away in the boot of a car to Ballarat Street where she had her throat slashed back to the spine. The South Armagh Brigade retaliated for the deaths of the hunger strikers by killing five British soldiers with a mine that destroyed their armoured vehicle near Bessbrook. One gunman opened fire while another planted the bomb. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. const getSubscriptionStatus = function (purchase) { [51][52], Since the army wind-down in 2007, security in the area is the sole responsibility of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. [46] The last major action of the brigade before the last IRA ceasefire was a mortar attack on Newtownhamilton RUC/Army barracks, on 12 July 1997. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, } He had left the UDR the year before. [23] This incident was investigated by the Smithwick Tribunal into alleged collusion between the IRA and the Garda. }); if (element.tagName === 'BODY' && ! , South Armagh IRA is killed on active service during an attack on Keady barracks. [26], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the IRA elsewhere in Northern Ireland found that nine out of ten planned operations were aborted. On 7 August of that year, Harry Thornton, a 29-year-old sewage worker from South Armagh was shot and killed by the British Army while staying in a car outside Springfield Road base in Belfast, he and his coworker Arthur Murphy having been mistaken for gunmen. On 11 June 1993, the South Armagh Brigade attempted to shoot down a Puma helicopter taking off from the Crossmaglen base with an improvised mortar. On 17 February 1978 the commander of the 2nd Battalion Royal Green Jackets, Lieutenant Colonel Ian Corden-Lloyd, was killed and two other soldiers injured when the Gazelle helicopter he was travelling in was attacked by an IRA unit near Jonesborough. subscriptionFinishDate: '', The second most senior IRA man in South Armagh is being 'protected' amid claims that he worked as an agent for British intelligence, according to usually reliable security sources. @OCFireRescue. '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army, was attacked by an IRA unit near Jonesborough, Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, took control of the village of Cullaville, deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, "Tribunal to investigate murders of RUC officers", BBC On This DAY - 20 March 1989 "Senior RUC men die in gun attack", "Governments must end immoral indulgence of Sinn Fin/IRA", Commons debate, 8 June 1993, columns 192-197, Commons debate, 8 June 1993, columns 180-191, The only way to travel across bandit country, "Final British Watchtowers being removed", "No democrat will shed tears at demise of RIR and its bases", "North-south crackdown on IRA's hidden wealth", "Is 'Slab' Murphy's bloody reign drawing to an end? From that point onwards, the South Armagh 'OC' and his associates became millionaires while continuing to donate a reputed 25pc of their earnings to the 'movement'. His hands had been tied behind his back and his eyes taped closed at Central. 28 March In an identical attack to the one that killed Derek Monteith, 58-year-old RUC member George Starrett is shot dead in the kitchen of his home on the Newry Road by the Provisional IRA. subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', The following August, two RUC constables were killed by a car bomb in Crossmaglen. The Sunday Independent has learned that the South Armagh 'OC' was outed as a 'tout' earlier this year and that shortly afterwards an IRA bodyguard team was sent from Belfast to ensure that no attack was made on the man in order to save embarrassment for the 'movement'. const getBundleValue = function (purchase, purchaseType) { 10 November Charles Spence, a 44-year-old part-time UDR man, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at the customs offices where he worked on the Monaghan Road in the city. The man, who has the official title of \u0026#039;officer commanding\u0026#039; South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA, is also a member of the \u0026#039;Northern Command\u0026#039;, the ruling body which effectively ran the organisation from the early 1980s. const vars = JSON.parse('{"attributes":{"inmproduct":"amp","virtualview":"false"},"category":{"pageType":"Article","primaryCategory":"Irish News","regionals":"","sectionId":"77","subCategory1":"n\/a","subCategory2":"n\/a","subCategory3":"n\/a","subCategory4":"n\/a"},"page":{"pageName":"In:Irish News:South Armagh IRA rocked as \u0027OC\u0027 is outed as a \u0027tout\u0027","pageTitle":"South Armagh IRA rocked as \u0027OC\u0027 is outed as a \u0027tout\u0027","publication":"Independent.ie"},"user":{"gigyaID":"","subscriptionStatus":"","subscriptionStartDate":"","subscriptionFinishDate":"","userID":""},"article":{"articleID":"34944633","articleType":"News","articleLayout":"standard","author":"Jim Cusack","createdAt":"2016-08-06 22:16:02","modifiedAt":"2016-08-06 22:40:34","publishedAt":"2016-08-07 01:30:00","wallType":"none","wallVisible":"false","relatedContent":{"gallery":0,"news":3,"photos":1,"soundcloud":0,"videos":0},"source":"Sunday Independent","tags":"","topics":""}}' || '{}'); South Armagh is a strange place for this Northern-born Protestant and Dublin resident, albeit one who was active in the Northern Ireland civil rights movement in the 1960s and is a proud Irish citizen. console.log('observer.observe failed:', e); A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. The helicopter crashed while taking evasive manoeuvres after being fired at from the east side of Edenappa road. // Stop listening for mutations once we know this listener has been registered. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. The chief of staff and head of the IRA is Thomas "Slab" Murphy, a millionaire racketeer and smuggler from south Armagh who was instrumental in bringing about the 1994 ceasefire and then planning the London Docklands bombing which broke it. Hair tattoos becoming increasingly popular among men in Ireland. }; listenForFlipPayEvents(); Neighborhood North of Turnpike Subdivision Pleasant Park. // Check window.dataLayer object or create. [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. subscriptionStartDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', He regarded as exceptions the East Tyrone IRA unit, led by Jim Lynagh who was killed in an SAS ambush during an IRA attack on Loughall RUC base in 1987, and the "tight as a drum" South Armagh . Bandit Country. [35] The shooting down of the Lynx in 1994 during a mortar attack on Crossmaglen barracks is regarded by Toby Harnden as the most successful IRA operation against a helicopter in the course of the Troubles. In 2006, the British and Irish authorities mounted joint operations to clamp down on smuggling in the area and to seize Thomas Murphy's assets. [15] In response, the British government stated that it was dispatching the Special Air Service (SAS) to South Armagh, although the SAS had been present in the area for many years. [16] While loyalist attacks on Catholics temporarily declined afterwards and many Protestants became more reluctant to help the UVF, the massacre caused considerable controversy in the republican movement. Five men, including one who was described by police in court as the UVF's East Belfast commander, and two women, were later jailed on various charges in connection with her death. The South Armagh IRA. } [45], In 1997, several members of the South Armagh Brigade, based in Jonesborough and Dromintee, following Michael McKevitt, left the Provisional IRA because of its acceptance of the Mitchell Principles of non-violence at a General Army Convention in October of that year and formed a dissident grouping, the Real IRA, which rejected the peace process. She had gone to Belfast after spending some of the night drinking in Armagh, and had fallen in with a crowd of loyalist men and women who, realising that she was a Catholic from Armagh, took her to a house on Cregagh Street on the pretense of having a party. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. return cookieValue; When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. "Orde visit seen as farewell to Army", by Phillp Bradfield. Sources say that shortly before they were captured, the team was given orders by the 'OC' not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. observer.observe(document, { The fact that the IRA executed the action despite the presence of a British Army watchtower nearby, caused outrage among British and Irish parliamentary circles. var p = purchase['granted_by_' + purchaseType]; subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.finish_at, SDLP MP, 17 November David Halligan, a 57-year-old UDR member, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA on the Hamiltonsbawn Road on the outskirts of the city. The team, which included Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghin O Caolain's brother-in-law - Bernard McGinn from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan - were sentenced to lengthy jail terms, but released in 2000 under the Good Friday Agreement. 211 Orange County ERA, your comprehensive resource in Capistrano Beach California. [38] The only successful IRA attack against an Army helicopter outside South Armagh was carried out by the East Tyrone Brigade near Clogher, County Tyrone, on 11 February 1990. 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","articleBody":"The second most senior IRA man in South Armagh is being \u0026#039;protected\u0026#039; amid claims that he worked as an agent for British intelligence, according to usually reliable security sources. He was from Ashley Heights in the city and was a leading member of the Orange Order. By the time of the final IRA ceasefire in August 1997 the south Armagh IRA leadership was already heavily involved in fuel and cigarette smuggling. return; // Regionals Container Three British soldiers and a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) member were wounded. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KJF4'); const isGrantedBy = function (grant) { }; (function () { 8 November Adrian Carroll, a 24-year-old. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. ", Sinn Fein ministers McGuinness and Murphy in illegal parade, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provisional_IRA_South_Armagh_Brigade&oldid=1098002029. for (let i = 0, parts; (parts = cookies[i] && cookies[i].split('=')); i++) { const subscriberCookieStatus = getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'; return cookieData; $312,000 (2022) Assessed Value. The UDR member who fired the fatal shot was later brought to court on manslaughter charges but was found not guilty in the non-jury trial. [20], During the mid-1980s, the brigade focused its attacks on the RUC, killing 20 of its members between 1984 and 1986. 29 April Thomas McGeary, a 48-year-old Catholic civilian, is killed by a booby-trap bomb planted in his car just outside Armagh city. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; In one such ambush in August 1972, a Ferret armoured car was destroyed by a 600lb landmine, killing one soldier. Overall, the South Armagh Sniper operation carried out by the IRA was one of the most successful operations of that era of the troubles. premium_content: false, 7 September 61-year-old Catholic RUC man John Wasson is shot dead by the INLA outside his Duke's Grove home in a nationalist area of the city. By the time of the final IRA ceasefire in August 1997, the South Armagh IRA leadership was already heavily involved in fuel and cigarette smuggling and it is believed that the British struck a deal whereby the IRA leaders could continue to benefit from the illicit trade, so long as no further attacks on security forces or bomb attacks on commercial targets took place. Stock image. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. return 'premium'; His younger brother, a member of the UDR, had lost both legs in an IRA attack on the Mall in 1982. Sources say that shortly before they were captured, the team was given orders by the 'OC' not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. } But there's more: discover your full benefits now. He was later acquitted of any charges, but he eventually agreed in 2006 to pay 500,000 for cross-border smuggling. }; A number of South Armagh IRA members were imprisoned by the end of the 1970s and took part in the blanket protest and dirty protest in pursuit of political status for IRA prisoners. vars.user.subscriptionStatus = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus || ''; Lost Lives, the chronology which attempts to list the name of everyone who died in the Troubles, mistakenly claims that the bombing occurred in, 16 June Terence McKeever, a 31-year-old Armagh businessman is abducted and then shot dead by the Provisional IRA, with his body being left near the village of, 21 March INLA member Kevin Barry Duffy is shot dead in the grounds of, 25 September 22-year-old UDR member Stephen McKinney is shot dead by the Provisional IRA on the Cabragh Road on the outskirts of Armagh. } It is not clear how the 'OC' came to be exposed as an agent but he is believed to have been recruited by British Intelligence in the late 1980s or early 1990s. if (eventType === 'access_resolved' || eventType === 'access_resolved ') { 9 February Michael Beswick (21), a member of the British Army, was killed in Cathedral Road, Armagh, when a remote-controlled bomb hidden by the Provisional IRA in a wall exploded as an army foot patrol was passing by. He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. }; The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. vars.article.userWall = 'none'; } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium-plus') > -1) { try { RM2HX09AC - File photo dated 7/8/2011 of Peter Smithwick, the senior judge who led an inquiry into claims of Garda/IRA collusion into the murder of two RUC officers, has died aged 85. }; 26 October Joseph Wilson, a 53-year-old part-time member of the UDR is shot dead by a Provisional IRA gunman in the supermarket he worked at in the nationalist Shambles area of the city. A Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesman confirmed that an investigation was underway, but also stated that both Sinn Fin Ministers and everyone attending the parade were unaware that "the proper paperwork hadn't been submitted". }); There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. "The fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead. . It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. [24] As the divisional commander for South Armagh, Breen was the most senior policeman to have been killed during the Troubles. [42] When the IRA resumed its campaign in 1996-97, the South Armagh IRA was less active than previously,[43] although one of the sniper teams killed one soldier and seriously wounded an RUC constable. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. It is believed that the British struck a deal whereby the IRA leaders could continue to benefit from the illicit trade so long as no further attacks on security forces or bomb attacks on commercial targets took place. 'false' : 'true'; [33][34], The South Armagh Brigade was by far the most effective IRA brigade in shooting down British helicopters during the conflict. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. A new full inquest is to be held into the IRA massacre of 10 Protestant workers shot dead in South Armagh in 1976. } To the army, South Armagh is 'Bandit Country', 200 square miles of the most dangerous and hostile terrain in Northern Ireland which has claimed the lives of 115 soldiers since 1969. vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. 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