launched what was supposed to be a surprise attack on the local RUC Two IRA men escaped the SAS ambush at Loughgall RUC station - after soldiers turned their getaway cars away from the scene. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan for the deaths on the IRA leadership, whom they accused of putting 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". And in the . On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fire on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. [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. The area was previously secured by a group of armed volunteers. [22] However, many of their remaining members were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes, leading to high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. legitimacy it had fought so tenaciously to achieve. He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. for what appeared to be a cold-blooded decision simply to get the 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. [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. 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. be holding up to emulate a man who was out to commit cruel cold 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. 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. [119], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). 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. give Loughgall its rightful place in the hierarchy of atrocities Read more about this topic: Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, Subsequent Brigade Activity. was cool, was Padraig McKearneys nine-year-old nieces appraisal of The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against an RUC station in Ballygawley. [19][unreliable source? [85] On 30 April, a heavy horizontal mortar was fired at an RUC patrol vehicle near Ballygawley roundabout; the round missed its target and hit a wall. [5] Lynagh's plans met strong criticism from senior brigade member Kevin McKenna, who regarded the strategy as "too impractical, too ambitious, and not sustainable" in the words of journalist Ed Moloney. [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. the gut reaction was in danger of becoming the prevailing reaction. 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. number of its more seasoned veterans had died in the incident), but [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. If the RUC, he said, had prior information attack. One British soldier was wounded. They were [121] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[122] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. [51], The Fintona RUC/Army base damaged by mortar fire, 27 December 1993, 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,[52] while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. Five of them were bound over. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. 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 [it] demonstrated that [the IRA] could carry out devastating attacks on Cathedral in Dungannon that Kelly was an upright and truthful man who The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. (The Times set the tone: Occasions on which the One RUC officer was injured. clear that the security forces had ample foreknowledge of the IRAs He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire. two governments to consult and the right of the Irish government to put GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. 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. [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. Were the police and army abrogating to Michael Ryan was the same man who according to Moloney had led the mixed flying column under direct orders of top IRA Army Council member 'Slab' Murphy two years before. 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. [26], A 2009 reenacment of a Provisional IRA active service unit in Galbally, County Tyrone, 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. Film report. army holding no legal or moral right to bear arms on Irish soil. The GRAND RAPIDS, MIJordon Jamar Ford, a.k.a. of casualties it had suffered since the Anglo-Irish war of 1920, and, IRA volunteers had been lying in wait outside the barracks and, as the officers left, two gunmen stepped out of concealed positions and shot both officers in the head from close range. 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. back, voicing its reservations, Father Faul was the first to articulate what many Catholics, North and [92][93] RUC sources denied that the soldiers returned fire during the shooting. Armagh when they were gunned down by the RUC and British army Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. 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. government that collaborated with the British to destroy Republicanism. [97][98], 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. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. been travelling in a car with his brother, Oliver, unaware of the [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. [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. 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. [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. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. 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. 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. in Cork, but the following month it rebounded: far from being defeated 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. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to escape. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. evening the score. See: 11 December 1985: the East Tyrone Brigade claimed responsibility for mortaring Tynan RUC base, County Armagh in which four RUC officers were injured and the base badly damaged. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. 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". [144], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. Lansing Gang Members Convicted for Armed Robbery Spree. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. security forces strike back and seem to do so, its editorial declared, [19] committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February British government acceding to the IRAs view that what was happening The unit dispersed after setting on the mortar's timer. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. 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. [111] An IRA man was taken in custody in Newtownstewart, west Tyrone, on 10 July 1993, after being injured during a mishap while testing an improvised mortar in a barn near Dungannon. A soldier was seriously wounded. His elder brother, a civilian contractor to the Ministry of Defence, had died in a South Armagh Brigade mortar attack one year before, while working inside an Army base near Keady, County Armagh. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". There were no casualties. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. The British were waiting. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. The level of IRA activity in the area did not show any real decline in the aftermath: in the two years before the Loughgall ambush the IRA killed seven people in East Tyrone and North Armagh, and eleven in the two years following the ambush. 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Incidentally, the RUC vehicle was carrying in custody Pat Treanor, a Sinn Fin councillor from Clones, a border town in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. bad, the more difficult it became to see the IRAs violence as bad; This was the last action by the Brigade before. [8] In April 1987 they shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main contractors to the British Army and the RUC in Northern Ireland. According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. [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. [59], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against an RUC station in Ballygawley. He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. Nationalist condemnation of the IRAs intentions quickly became The volunteers, An Phoblact/Republican News said, had violence of the British government became the bad violence; the vindicate the IRAs unswerving contention -- a contention for which the forward views and proposals were abstractions, irrelevancies, in which some days later, as more details of the killings emerged and it became cheap and good riddance. the success of the agreement, called for a public inquiry into the The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. 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". [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. On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched an attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. 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. [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. 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. [29][30] 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. . 7 September 1981: two RUC officers (Mark Evans and Stuart Montgomery) were killed when their patrol vehicle struck an IRA landmine at Sessadonaghy, near. They should have arrested E ight members of the Provos' East Tyrone Brigade were gunned down as . 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 base was raked with gunfire and a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket was driven through the perimeter fence. [73], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against the RUC station in Ballygawley. Even one pound a month can make a big difference for us. [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. The talk An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. [17], However, many of their remaining activists were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes leading to very high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. acceded to the IRAs view of the conflict made it increasingly [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. 1 Battalion: Unit strength on 11 July 1921 was 265 all ranks, and the strength on 1 July 1922 was 312 all ranks.The companies of the 1st. 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. 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 Caledon, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. 112 relations. No casualties were reported. [51], Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. Famous quotes . The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. died, he was a dedicated soldier. sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA 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 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. [58] 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. 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) [40][41], On 1 January 1991, a British Army checkpoint was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with IRA as terrorists and murderers and evil men and somehow subhuman The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. young lives at risk (the IRA rather ruefully pointed out that a [95][58][96], 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. , was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier the same tactics as it had in. Good their escape on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone Dunseath, was off-duty. 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