Hair tattoos becoming increasingly popular among men in Ireland. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. if (vars.article) { According to the victim's sister-in-law, who was present at the time of the incident, two masked men entered demanding money and fired two shots into the ceiling when Corrigan refused to hand over any cash. [32] On 22 April 1993, the South Armagh IRA unit took control of the village of Cullaville near the border with the Republic, for two hours, making good use of dead ground. Most of the South Armagh IRA stayed within the Provisional movement, but there were reports of the brigade aiding the dissidents in different actions before the signing of the agreement, among them the bombings of Moira and Portadown, and mortar attacks on a security base at Forkhill and a watchtower at Glassdrumman. This was the last action of the IRA Armagh Sniper teams. He had left the RUC 15 years previously and the police rejected an IRA claim that he had been identified as a UDR member who had taken part in recent house searches in the city. 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. const grantedBy = Object.keys(purchase).filter(function (key) { The gunmen then escaped in a Ford Cortina which was found abandoned a short time later in the Windmill Hill area of the city. window.showSubscriberElements) { 18 October 67-year-old Protestant Herbert John Anderson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA who ambushed his taxi on the Armagh to, 19 April Agnes Wallace (40), a Prison Officer, was killed and three female colleagues were injured in an, 2 June Alan Dunne (36), an off-duty member of the RUC, and David Stinson (32), a, 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. const isGrantedBy = function (grant) { Men from the area also took part in IRA campaigns in the 1940 and 1950s. 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. 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. [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. 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. } } A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. One USC Constable was killed in this attack and in revenge the USC descended upon Killylea in Armagh and began to burn down Nationalist homes; they also shot and wounded two civilians. 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? The dead man was a World War II veteran and had taken part in the. [5] Between 1970 and 1997 the brigade was responsible for the deaths of 165 members of British security forces (123 British soldiers and 42 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers). window.loadGTM = function () { 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. 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. By the end of the 1970s, the IRA in most of Northern Ireland had been restructured into a cell system. [25], South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. Nine of these were killed in the February 1985 Newry mortar attack. 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. Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for. [48] Thomas Murphy and the leadership of the IRA in the area have allegedly since re-asserted their control, expelling dissidents from the district under threat of death. [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. // Push initial dataLayer values into object. Forkhill or Forkill (from Irish: Foirceal) is a small village and civil parish in south County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in the ancient barony of Upper Orior. const domain = '.independent.ie'; 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. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, [20], During the mid-1980s, the brigade focused its attacks on the RUC, killing 20 of its members between 1984 and 1986. Let the message from south Armagh ring loud and clear to the occupation forces. 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. 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. 29 March 1997 - An RUC officer was badly wounded when he was shot by a sniper outside Forkhill joint security base, County Armagh. 24 March William Elliott, a-52-year old Protestant civilian from Ashley Gardens in the city is shot dead by the Provisional IRA in the village of, 15 August Norman Kerr, a 28-year-old Protestant from, 22 August The UVF's Glenanne Gang launched a gun and bomb attack on McGleenan's Bar on Upper English Street in the Shambles area of the city. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; 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. But there's more: discover your full benefits now. userID: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.user_id, '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= [26], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the IRA elsewhere in Northern Ireland found that nine out of ten planned operations were aborted. 31 July 1993 - A British Army mobile checkpoint was fired at by an IRA sniper at Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. 15.5K Followers. subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.finish_at, 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. } The board of finance Wednesday voted 4-2 in favor of using $300,000 in funding to repair the Grange Pool.Repairs to the nearly 60-year-old pool have been estimated between $300,000 to $350,000. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Dates in bold indicate a death by a sniper. 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. 2 . The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. He was driving his minibus when a car pulled up beside it and a gunman opened fire on him. [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. He was finishing work building garages at the back of the Housing Executive offices on Dobbin Street when the gunman struck. 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. mutations.forEach((mutation) => { Although from Armagh city, he was a member of the IRA's, 31 July George Walsh, a 51-year-old member of the RUC, was shot dead when two INLA gunmen opened fire on the car he was sitting in outside, 2 August Two British soldiers are killed in a Provisional IRA landmine explosion on the Cathedral Road. subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.finish_at, subscriptionStatus: 'Corporate', }); The normalisation process, negotiated under the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement in exchange for the complete decommissioning of IRA weaponry, was one of the main goals of the republican political strategy in the region. subtree: true, 8 November Adrian Carroll, a 24-year-old. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. subscriptionStartDate: '', The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. The IRA claimed that he was a member of the UDR, something that was denied by the police and army. 15/11/1974 Michael McVerry O.C. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); [28] By 1991, the RUC acknowledged that no mobile patrols had operated in South Armagh without Army support since 1975.[29]. userID: purchase.granted_by_purchase.user_id, [9] After the split in the IRA in that year, the South Armagh unit sided with the Provisional IRA rather than the Official IRA. Raymond McCreesh, a South Armagh man, was among the ten republican hunger strikers who died for this goal in the 1981 hunger strike. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. vars.user.userID = subscriberCookie.userID || ''; [36] while in 1994 another Lynx and an RAF Puma were shot down in March and July respectively. 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. j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? More people could be killed or forced from their homes in a feud between factions of the Provisional IRA in south Armagh, republicans and security chiefs warned . return { . 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[39] By 1994, the only way for the British army to travel safely across South Armagh and some border areas of Tyrone and Fermanagh was on board troop-carrying Chinook helicopters.[40]. subscriptionStartDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', 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. bodyAvailable = true; 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":""}}' || '{}'); The unveiling involved a large republican parade which failed to comply with the procedures of the Parades Commission. A new full inquest is to be held into the IRA massacre of 10 Protestant workers shot dead in South Armagh in 1976. return 'premium-plus'; The following August, two RUC constables were killed by a car bomb in Crossmaglen. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, From that point on the south Armagh OC and his associates became millionaires while continuing to donate a reputed 25% of their earnings to the IRA. They had been for a night out in the, 28 April - Eric Smyth, a 40-year-old ex-member of the UDR, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at the front of his home on Salter's Grange Road, on the outskirts of Armagh. vars.article.wallVisible = ! 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. This page was last edited on 13 July 2022, at 18:49. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. Belton was shot and injured by other members of the patrol, but managed to flee to the Republic. [24] As the divisional commander for South Armagh, Breen was the most senior policeman to have been killed during the Troubles. There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. }; [51][52], Since the army wind-down in 2007, security in the area is the sole responsibility of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. if (isGrantedBy('app_purchase')) { const observer = new MutationObserver(onMutation); if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_monthly') > -1) { userID: purchase.granted_by_corporate_account.user_id, He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. The men were taken out of their minibus and then . const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); 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. } if (isGrantedBy('whitelist_rule')) { if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { OCFire Rescue. } catch (e) { var p = purchase['granted_by_' + purchaseType]; cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookieValue); These bases acted as information-gathering centres and also allowed the British Army to patrol South Armagh more securely. const subscriberCookie = JSON.parse(getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'); Wed 17 Sep 2014 11.51 EDT. 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. [60], "The Saracen armoured car blown up by a culvert bomb at Lurganculleboy, near Crossmaglen in October 1975, killing Corporal Edward Gleeson. "The last armoured patrol in South Armagh, attacked in Crossmaglen October 1975 killing Cpl Gleeson. } He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. bundle: bundleValue, 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. After this, 24 security force personnel and Lord Justice Gibson and his wife were killed in the same areas, roughly a third of the previous yearly rate. Since then the security forces travel by helicopter for security reasons.". document.head.append(script); const getCookie = key => { In 1986, the British Army erected ten hilltop observation posts in South Armagh. 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