The barrack buster, fired from the back of a local baker's delivery van, exploded on the helipad shortly after the pilot had managed to take off. item_group_code: "pfc_indo", Welcome! He was later acquitted of any charges, but he eventually agreed in 2006 to pay 500,000 for cross-border smuggling. $69,194 (2019) Property Taxes. '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= The patrol then immediately fled the scene, the police (once informed) took over 4 hours to respond. The IRA ceasefire of 1994 was a blow to the South Armagh Brigade, in that it allowed the security forces to operate openly in the area without fear of attack and to build intelligence on IRA members. 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. childList: true, 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. Many men in the area served in the Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (191921) and, unlike most of the rest of the Northern Ireland IRA, on the republican side in the Irish Civil War (192223). 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. The workers' bus was stopped and the one Catholic worker taken aside before the others were killed. [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. 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. return; document.body.addEventListener('fp_user_event', function (event) { In case of an emergency, do not send message, dial 911. The helicopter crashed while taking evasive manoeuvres after being fired at from the east side of Edenappa road. A group calling itself 'The Irish Freedom Fighters' claimed responsibility for his death, claiming that McGeary was a 'collaborator', but the killing was widely blamed on the Provisional IRA, who were accused of using a cover name to try and deflect blame for an unpopular action. 29 March 1997 - An RUC officer was badly wounded when he was shot by a sniper outside Forkhill joint security base, County Armagh. if (!! subscriptionFinishDate: '', 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. } if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_monthly') > -1) { vars.article.userWall = ! 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. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, 9 June - Peadar McElvenna, a 24-year-old Provisional IRA member from Convent Close in the city, is shot dead after an IRA attack on the RUC barracks in Keady, south Armagh. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. 3 May 56-year-old Robert Orr, an ex-member of the RUC, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explodes under his car as he drove along the Mall in the centre of Armagh. } 9 March James Hogg, a 23-year-old Protestant civilian and member of the Orange Order, was shot dead in what is thought to have been a sectarian revenge attack by the INLA. 'none' : 'registration'; $553 (2019) Beds. Wed 19 Mar 2003 20.45 EST. window.IMP.config = flipPayConfig; McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. South Armagh IRA rocked as 'OC' is outed as a 'tout' - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk "I think we have to remember that in the vast majority of cases, the police and security forces acted with integrity, courage and professionalism." Theresa Villiers Se0samh Well-known member Joined Dec 8, 2011 Messages 15,782 Aug 8, 2016 #2 death or glory said: In July last year Wilson and south Armagh man Sean Gerard Hughes were returned for trial to face counts of belonging to a proscribed organisation and addressing a meeting to encourage support for . [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. } catch (e) { By the 1990s, the South Armagh Brigade was thought to consist of about 40 members,[1] roughly half of them living south of the border. window.loadGTM = function () { return cookieValue; The single Mk-15 mortar bomb landed 40 yards (37m) short of the perimeter fence. Raymond McCreesh, a South Armagh man, was among the ten republican hunger strikers who died for this goal in the 1981 hunger strike. 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. } Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for. 15.5K Followers. const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); 24 February - Reginald Williamson, a 46-year-old RUC member from Armagh, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explodes under his car near the village of Loughgall. [28] By 1991, the RUC acknowledged that no mobile patrols had operated in South Armagh without Army support since 1975.[29]. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, 8 November Adrian Carroll, a 24-year-old. vars.article.userWall = 'none'; In March 1989, two senior RUC officers were killed in an ambush near Jonesborough. } He was the 267th RUC officer to die in the Troubles. 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[47] The Omagh bombing of August 1998, a botched Real IRA operation which killed 29 civilians, was prepared by dissident republicans in South Armagh. in Britain", "Closure of the Maze: All Out; Terrorist killers and bombers are freed from jail", "Murder verdicts quashed in Ulster sectarian killing", "AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY Kevin Myers on the Anne Marie Smyth case", "Lives lost in 'peace': Chris Thornton on Stephen Manners", "Two policemen killed in separate Ulster attacks", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Troubles_in_Armagh&oldid=1118192779, All Wikipedia articles written in Hiberno-English, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 14 August 1969 John Gallagher, a 30 year old married father of three children, became one of the first victims of the Troubles after being shot in the back by, 10 August Norman Watson, a 53 year old Protestant civilian and member of the, 29 March Ruby Johnson, a 38 year old Protestant civilian from Ballintemple near, 26 April Lawrence Jubb, a 22 year old soldier with the, 7 August In the third incident of its kind to take place within a small area of the city that year, Geoffrey Knipe, a 24 year old soldier from, 25 October John Michael Morrell, a 32 year old soldier from, 15 December Frederick Greeves, a 40 year old member of the, 18 December William Johnson, a 48 year old local elected councillor for the, 7 April Jake McGerrigan, a 17 year old member of the Official IRA, is shot dead in the Druid's Villas area by British troops of the, 9 April Two days after the death of Jake McGerrigan, his friend and fellow Official IRA man 20-year-old Tony Hughes is shot dead in nearby Culdee by members of the, 13 August William McIlveen, a 36 year old part-time member of the, 27 August Kenneth Hill, a 24 year old corporal in the UDR, is shot dead in a gun battle with the Provisional IRA in the Culdee area of the city. 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'. OCFire Rescue. Orange County, Florida ocfrd.com Joined May 2013. 15/11/1974 Michael McVerry O.C. It is within the Ring of Gullion and in the 2011 Census it had a recorded population of 498. script.type = 'text/javascript'; Watch: Peter Crouch sings the Fields of Athenry with Liverpool fans in Dublin pub, Teachers union claims it was excluded from new pay talks, Jay Blades made chancellor of former university and receives honorary doctorate, Badenoch clashes with MPs over menopause discrimination law, Search teams using every resource they can in hunt for Constance Martens baby. const flipPayJsUrl = 'https://cdn.flip-pay.com/clients/inm/flip-pay.js'; Whilst security forces arrested some south Armagh republicans in 1997, republican . 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. if (flipPayJsUrl) { T uesday marked. Inside the council chambers that night Charles Armstrong had called for councillors to stand for a minute's silence for Adrian Carroll, who had been shot dead six days earlier in the city. He had left the UDR the year before. [36] while in 1994 another Lynx and an RAF Puma were shot down in March and July respectively. Tweets & replies. Paul Reece of the, 16 October 25-year-old Tony McClelland, from the Drumarg estate in Armagh city, died during a, 2 April 23-year-old RUC man Kenneth Acheson from Ballynahone Drive in the city dies when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explodes under his car as he drives home from. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium-plus') > -1) { [11], During the early 1970s, the brigade was mostly engaged in ambushes of British Army patrols. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. 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He had just left children back to the school after they had attended a quiz the, 1 January 1986 James McCandless (39) and Michael Williams (24), both members of the RUC, were killed by a Provisional IRA remote controlled bomb hidden in a litter bin in Thomas Street and detonated when their foot patrol passed by at one minute into the new year. [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. One gunman opened fire while another planted the bomb. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; 1,168 Following. 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. 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. [51][52], Since the army wind-down in 2007, security in the area is the sole responsibility of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. Many of the major IRA bombs in England this decade, including Canary Wharf. In 2014, an article appeared in the Sinn Fin newspaper, 17 December The Officer Commanding (OC) of the Armagh city Provisional IRA, 33-year-old Sean McIlvenna, is killed by the RUC in, 17 February Catholic prison officer Patrick Kerr is shot dead by the Provisional IRA on his 37th birthday as he left 10.30 a.m Mass with his children at, 21 February 30-year-old Catholic RUC member Frank Murphy is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at the gates of Drumsallen Primary School on the Battleford Road just outside Armagh city. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 !subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus ? You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. In 1984, his son-in-law Herbert Burrows will be killed in an IRA booby-trap explosion close to the scene of Wilson's death. subscriptionFinishDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', The team, which included Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghin O Caolain's brother-in-law, Bernard McGinn from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, were sentenced to lengthy jailed terms but released in 2000 as part of the prisoner amnesty. His body was recovered in Crossmaglen in south Armagh. ", Sinn Fein ministers McGuinness and Murphy in illegal parade, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provisional_IRA_South_Armagh_Brigade&oldid=1098002029. He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. observer.observe(document, { Let the message from south Armagh ring loud and clear to the occupation forces. 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. Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. But the snipers also lost a number of their most skilled members, such as Mchel Caraher, who were arrested and imprisoned just weeks before the second ceasefire. Contents 1 Background Overview of The Troubles in Armagh City, Northern Ireland, "Irish Police Face Peril of 'Murder Mile', "Issues: Violence McKittrick, Kelters, Feeney and Thornton (1999) Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles", "Madden and Finucane Closing Submissions (including excerpts from The Scarman Report)", "Five injured as Staffords are lured into Armagh booby trap", "Newton Emerson: Licensing next war is Adams's real legacy", "Calls for 'honesty' and inquiry over Troubles-related killings", "Paramilitary Feuds in Northern Ireland A Chronology of Events", "Gunmen Shoot Part-time Soldier, IRA Claims Responsibility", "Police inspector shot dead in Northern Ireland", "I.R.A. Media. const observer = new MutationObserver(onMutation); 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. According to Lost Lives, it is assumed that he was killed in retaliation for a UVF gun attack on a Catholic man in the city earlier that day. 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. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; The fierceness of the republicanism expressed by people like the local historians I spoke to is unsettling. An IRA unit had taken over a house in Ogle Street and waited until the RUC foot patrol came into range of the 5 lb device. [54][55] On 22 June 1998 a deadly incident involving fuel smuggling took place near Crossmaglen, when former Thomas Murphy employee Patrick Belton ran over and killed a British soldier attempting to stop him while driving his oil tanker through a military checkpoint. When there, Ms Smyth was followed upstairs by five men, who savagely beat and strangled her. 17 June 34-year-old Geraldine Corrigan died two days after being shot by what is thought to have been a member of the Official IRA during a botched robbery at her family's supermarket on the Cathedral Road. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, The men were taken out of their minibus and then . if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { Since then the security forces travel by helicopter for security reasons.". It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { [26], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the IRA elsewhere in Northern Ireland found that nine out of ten planned operations were aborted. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. document.head.append(script); A key player in a vicious IRA sniper squad in south Armagh will be freed from prison under the Good Friday agreement within 16 months, despite yesterday receiving one of . Subsequently, the British Army gave up the use of roads to the IRA in South Armagh. He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. The man, who has the official title of 'officer commanding' South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA, is also a member of the 'Northern Command', the ruling body which effectively ran the organisation from the early 1980s. }; userID: purchase.granted_by_purchase.user_id, 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. A further 75 civilians were killed in the area during the conflict,[6] as well as ten South Armagh Brigade members. 211 Orange County ERA, your comprehensive resource in Capistrano Beach California. . subscriptionStatus: '', 25 July 1994 - A British soldier was shot and wounded by the IRA in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. 18 April IPLO member Martin Corrigan from Railway Street in the city is shot dead by British Army soldiers at Kinnego, a few miles from Armagh. return { 16 April 1997 - A group of sixteen undercover SAS members restrained four IRA members, part of one of the two sniper teams which operated in South Armagh and gave them to the RUC, after tracking the IRA men to a farm complex. window.GTMLoaded = true; 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. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. 3 April 1993 - A British soldier was shot and injured by the IRA near Crossmaglen, South Armagh. const element = mutation.target; meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, 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. His brother Michael Caraher, who was severely wounded in the shooting, later became the commander of one of the South Armagh sniper squads. const subscriberCookie = JSON.parse(getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'); The dead man was from Knockamell Park in Armagh city. bundle: 'premium-plus', bundle: 'none', 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. Orange County; Winter Garden; Seminole Street; 537 Seminole Street Winter Garden, FL 34787. }); Although the British army has tried to block the region's 370-mile border with Ireland,. } } Wed 17 Sep 2014 11.51 EDT. const script = document.createElement('script'); He is said to have given the order for the brutal beating - which turned into the murder - of Paul Quinn, the innocent 21-year-old who happened to have been involved in a violent row with another local Provo who had assaulted a young woman in October 2007. 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. [31] The South Armagh Brigade also built the bombs that were used to wreck economic targets in London during the 1990s, specially hitting the financial district. const getSubscriptionStatus = function (purchase) { A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. 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He along with another man were apparently intending to break into the supermarket when Harker was shot by members of a UDR patrol. const updateSubscriberCookie = function (purchase) { subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.finish_at, return 'home-delivery'; vars.user.userID = subscriberCookie.userID || ''; mutations.forEach((mutation) => { 'false' : 'true'; const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); He is said to have given the order for the brutal beating, which turned into the murder of Paul Quinn, the innocent 21-year-old who happened to have been involved in a violent row with another local Provo who had assaulted a young woman in October 2007. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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