Major George Shaw, a 57-year-old father of two, worked full-time for the MOD and was a part-time soldier. collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. Five were bound over. The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. operatives, and with the IRA for once again forcing constitutional Tyrone Obrien Rooney (born 1978) is listed at 1312 Oak Ridge Ave Apt 211 East Lansing, Mi 48823 and has no known political party affiliation. 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. shooting an Irishman in Ireland produces a gut reaction.. 112 relations. Two IRA men escaped the SAS ambush at Loughgall RUC station - after soldiers turned their getaway cars away from the scene. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. [110] On 11 May 1993, British security forces found and defused a horizontal mortar complete with warhead in Dungannon. members of the SDLP, disquieted that the shootings had taken place on of casualties it had suffered since the Anglo-Irish war of 1920, and, [55][56][57], Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. 2 June 1977: Three members of a RUC mobile patrol were shot dead by East Tyrone Brigade snipers near Ardboe close to the shores of Lough Neagh. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. 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. meetings of the Intergovernmental Conference. Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. IRA. The young men who were there [at Loughgall] with guns in their Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. seasoned leadership. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. [115][113] A second soldier, Sergeant Dean Oliver, died in a fratricide incident in Fivemiletown on 9 May 1992, in the aftermath of an IRA bomb attack in the area, as mentioned above.[61][116]. set the example, provided the inspiration. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. The Auxiliaries, Republicans were reminded in An Phoblacht/Republican advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was ten hunger strikers had given their lives -- that Northern Ireland was a 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 bomb detonated, destroying much of the base and damaging nearby buildings. This was denied by the dead man's family. 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]. 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. According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. [49], On 3 June, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Michael "Pete" Ryan, and Tony Doris, died in another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was riddled with gunfire. 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]. [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. 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". [it] demonstrated that [the IRA] could carry out devastating attacks on [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. 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). the people. cursing the whole time. The Clonmult ambush was a setback for the IRA The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". It smacks of revenge and retaliation. Moreover -- and he [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. 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 . 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment, A major ambush occurred on 12 December 1993 in Fivemiletown, Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign 19691997, "Bomb disposal experts Sunday probed an abandoned truck for", "SAS shooting 'destroyed deadly IRA unit', Loughgall terrorist could not have been arrested, "GAA distances itself from IRA commemorations", "Calculating, professional enemy that faces KOSB", "Land Mine Kills 7 (sic) British Soldiers on Bus in Ulster", "IRA Claims Killing of 8 Soldiers As It Steps Up Attacks on British", "Ex-Para 'led attack by IRA which killed Scots soldiers'", "Fears of new IRA atrocity after attack on helicopter", "Cappagh (Incident) (Hansard, 3 May 1990)", "21 die, hundreds injured in Philippine new year revelry", Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1992-UTV news, CAIN Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1992 BBC News, 5 March 1992, "I.R.A. premeditated vengeance. ], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. 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. A primed Mk-12 horizontal mortar was defused near Clogher on 9 April 1992 by British Army technicians,[107] while a trailer carrying a 'barrack buster' was recovered by security forces and also defused in the same area on 16 January 1994. [79] The facilities targeted by "Barrack Buster" mortars included the above-mentioned Ballygawley barracks, a British Army border outpost at Aughnacloy,[80] the RUC barracks at Clogher[81] and Beragh,[80] both resulting in massive damage but no fatalities; two attacks on the RUC base in Caledon, which was also hit by gunfire in the second attack,[81][82] and the RUC compounds at Dungannon,[83] Fintona,[81] Carrickmore,[81] and Pomeroy. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background Your contribution can be made with a credit or debit card by clicking below. On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. responsibilities to the dead. On 30 August, 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. The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. A soldier was seriously wounded. The talk Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. planned at the very highest level of the British governments The IRA responded by killing senior UVF man and former UDR member Leslie Dallas on 7 March 1989, but the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. McKearney was buried thirteen years to the day that his [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. [19][unreliable source? 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. IRA as terrorists and murderers and evil men and somehow subhuman was cool, was Padraig McKearneys nine-year-old nieces appraisal of O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. fact, the governments actions would validate the Republican movements On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. murdered them, they were the terrorists. 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. 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. Famous quotes . The British were waiting. 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