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. 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. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. bundle: bundleValue, [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. There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; const element = mutation.target; Around this time IRA engineers in South Armagh pioneered the use of home-made mortars which were relatively inaccurate but highly destructive.[14]. He had charge of the IRA's border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. 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. window.loadGTM(); const observer = new MutationObserver(onMutation); 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. [60], "The Saracen armoured car blown up by a culvert bomb at Lurganculleboy, near Crossmaglen in October 1975, killing Corporal Edward Gleeson. 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. return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 } 30 July Martin Malone, an 18-year-old unarmed Catholic civilian, is shot dead by a UDR patrol in the Callan Street area. [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). The patrol then immediately fled the scene, the police (once informed) took over 4 hours to respond. }; [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. His Catholic girlfriend was driving behind him in her car when the explosion happened. Harnden, Toby (1999). In September 1975 they attacked an Orange lodge in Newtownhamilton, killing five members of the lodge. bodyAvailable) { Many of the major IRA bombs in England this decade, including Canary Wharf. 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. Watch: Peter Crouch sings the Fields of Athenry with Liverpool fans in Dublin pub, Senior Tory begrudgingly backs Sunaks bitter pill Brexit deal as DUP split over support, 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. return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; vars.article.wallVisible = ! The County of Orange closed the application period for the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Program on April 30, 2021. enable_showcase: true, It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA active service unit on armed operations. [58][59] The IRA control over the roads across the border in South Armagh enabled them to impose 'taxes' on every cross-border illegal enterprise. 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. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, One gunman opened fire while another planted the bomb. The IRA claimed that he was a member of the UDR, something that was denied by the police and army. 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Fri 19 Mar 1999 23.07 EST. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. The customs building itself was later destroyed in an IRA bomb attack in 1986. !gigyaID ? When there, Ms Smyth was followed upstairs by five men, who savagely beat and strangled her. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, } The incident caused outrage among South Armagh residents, provided the IRA with many new recruits and created a hostile climate where local people were prepared to tolerate the killing of security force members. 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. 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 . 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. A further 75 civilians were killed in the area during the conflict,[6] as well as ten South Armagh Brigade members. } In 1986, the British Army erected ten hilltop observation posts in South Armagh. 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. [56][57] Some sources claim that the smuggling activities not only made the South Armagh brigade self-sustained, but also provided financial support to most of the IRA operations around Northern Ireland. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . userID: purchase.granted_by_corporate_account.user_id, const script = document.createElement('script'); The owner of the farm was also arrested. bundle: 'none', The new Irish Sea Border: What does it mean? If you have already submitted an application for the ERA Program, a regional provider will follow-up with you directly and provide guidance on . Tweets & replies. [25], South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. 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 (subscriberCookieStatus === "undefined") { The following August, two RUC constables were killed by a car bomb in Crossmaglen. })(); Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. The men were taken out of their minibus and then . When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. 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. 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. [47] The Omagh bombing of August 1998, a botched Real IRA operation which killed 29 civilians, was prepared by dissident republicans in South Armagh. 27 November 34-year-old former RUC member John Martin is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his filling station on the Mall. 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. He was later acquitted of any charges, but he eventually agreed in 2006 to pay 500,000 for cross-border smuggling. return { console.log('observer.observe failed:', e); vars.article.userWall = 'none'; subscriptionStatus: '', The mortar round hit and shot down the helicopter, serial number ZD275, [1] while it was hovering over the helipad. [51][52], Since the army wind-down in 2007, security in the area is the sole responsibility of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. 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. He had left the UDR the year before. 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. He was on bail at the time of his death charged with having petrol bombs for use in rioting, and was prominent in, 27 August Wilfred McIlveen, a 37-year-old Protestant and former member of the UDR, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explodes under his car as he was leaving, 7 October Frederick Williamson, a 33-year-old member of the UDR from Orangefield Drive in the city, is killed along with 28-year-old prison officer Elizabeth Chambers from. It is not clear how he 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. The single Mk-15 mortar bomb landed 40 yards (37m) short of the perimeter fence. const updateSubscriberCookie = function (purchase) { The team, which included Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghin O Caolain\u0026#039;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. 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. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. 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. script.type = 'text/javascript'; bodyAvailable = true; 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. 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. return 'none'; From that point onwards, the South Armagh \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; and his associates became millionaires while continuing to donate a reputed 25pc of their earnings to the \u0026#039;movement\u0026#039;. document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "= ; path=/;domain=" + domain + ";expires = Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"; Purchase Price. vars.article.userWall = ! 24 February - Anne Marie Smyth, a 26-year-old Catholic mother of two from the Longstone estate in Armagh is murdered in east Belfast by the UVF after she attended what was meant to be a party in a loyalist area. Says It Killed Tory M.P. One of the men who killed her, long-time UVF member Stephen Manners, was himself shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in 2001 in what is thought to have been an internal hit. He was finishing work building garages at the back of the Housing Executive offices on Dobbin Street when the gunman struck. 2 . On 30 December 1990, Sinn Fin member and IRA volunteer,[30] Fergal Caraher, was killed by Royal Marines near a checkpoint in Cullyhanna. 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. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. const subscriberCookie = JSON.parse(getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'); const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'purchase'); [11], During the early 1970s, the brigade was mostly engaged in ambushes of British Army patrols. } new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], vars.user.userID = subscriberCookie.userID || ''; Welcome! 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. window.GTMLoaded = false; }); Harnden was held to be in contempt of the Bloody Sunday tribunal for . } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { There were no injuries on either side. 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. ","isAccessibleForFree":"True","isPartOf":{"@type":["CreativeWork","Product"],"name":"Independent.ie","productID":"independent.ie:showcase"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Independent.ie","item":"https://m.independent.ie/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Irish News","item":"https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/"}]} return 'home-delivery'; const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); A new full inquest is to be held into the IRA massacre of 10 Protestant workers shot dead in South Armagh in 1976. Sources say that shortly before they were captured, the team was given orders by the \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. userID: '', return cookieData; , South Armagh IRA is killed on active service during an attack on Keady barracks. Three British soldiers and a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) member were wounded. window.showSubscriberElements) { Despite British watchtowers with sophisticated surveillance equipment across south Armagh from the mid-1980s, various ex-Irish and British security personnel agree that the . } He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. document.head.append(script); subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, After that a struggle ensued in which Corrigan was shot at point-blank range in the head. Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, It was one of the few times the SAS didn\u0026#039;t shoot members of an IRA \u0026#039;active service unit\u0026#039; on armed operations. 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. if (!! [10], However, the IRA campaign in the area did not begin in earnest until 1971. listenForFlipPayEvents(); 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. Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images "And almost overnight the smugglers of South Armagh, under the control of the IRA, started bulk-buying . vars.user.subscriptionStartDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStartDate || ''; Shortly afterwards, the Army abandoned road transport in South Armagh." Martin was from Knockamell Park in the city and was a neighbour of Charles Spence, who was had been shot dead by the IRA two weeks previously. window.IMP = window.IMP || {}; His hands had been tied behind his back and his eyes taped closed at Central. 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. try { 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. A . }).map(function (key) { (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': The high power capability of the Barrett rifles posed a significant threat to British security forces and helicopters, forcing both to limit patrols and thus allow the IRA more freedom of movement. These bases acted as information-gathering centres and also allowed the British Army to patrol South Armagh more securely. const cookieExpiryInSeconds = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30; Sources say that shortly before they were captured the team was given orders by the man not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; Toby Harnden has interviewed members . He was identified as the IRA's chief technical officer by the Central Intelligence Agency. John McGleenan (45), Patrick Hughes (30) and Thomas Morris (22), all, 25 January David McDowell, a 26-year-old member of the UDR from Alexander Park in the city, is accidentally shot dead by a member of the, 9 April 73-year-old Catholic pensioner Michael Sweeney is killed when the UVF launch a bomb attack on Lenny's Bar in the Railway Street area of the city, which also injuries 14 other people. const grantedBy = Object.keys(purchase).filter(function (key) { They carried out 23 attacks on British Army helicopters during the Troubles, bringing five down on separate occasions: the Gazelle shot down in February 1978 near Jonesborough,[17] a Lynx in June 1988,[35] a second Lynx in February 1991,. There were also frequent gun attacks on foot patrols. 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 . "The fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead. Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "=" + JSON.stringify(cookieData) + ';path=/;domain=' + domain + ';max-age='+cookieExpiryInSeconds; subscriptionStatus: 'Corporate', Subsequently, the British Army gave up the use of roads to the IRA in South Armagh. [26] 1990s [ edit] j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? [27] However, the South Armagh Brigade continued to carry out varied and high-profile attacks in the same period. Since then the security forces travel by helicopter for security reasons.". 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'. window.GTMLoaded = true; The British patrol manning the checkpoint returned fire. subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.finish_at, 29 March 1997 - An RUC officer was badly wounded when he was shot by a sniper outside Forkhill joint security base, County Armagh. Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan were returning from a meeting with the Garda Sochna in the Republic of Ireland, where they had been discussing a range of issues including ways of combating IRA attacks on the cross-border rail link, when they were ambushed. 'false' : 'true'; Martin McGuinness, then deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, gave the main oration, while Conor Murphy, then Minister for Regional Development, introduced the families of the dead IRA members. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. 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. 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. This led to angry scenes as elected DUP members refused to stand. 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'. subscriptionFinishDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', 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. At that moment, a gun battle was taking place on the ground between British soldiers and members of the South Armagh Brigade. The dead man was from Knockamell Park in Armagh city. He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. Neighborhood North of Turnpike Subdivision Pleasant Park. 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; $69,194 (2019) Property Taxes. 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. } window.dataLayer.push(vars); Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. In case of an emergency, do not send message, dial 911. He along with another man were apparently intending to break into the supermarket when Harker was shot by members of a UDR patrol. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.sku_code, [26], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the IRA elsewhere in Northern Ireland found that nine out of ten planned operations were aborted. 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. $312,000 (2022) Assessed Value. The workers' bus was stopped and the one Catholic worker taken aside before the others were killed. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. 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. The man is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. Web Site Copyright 1995-2023 WGBH Educational Foundation. cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookieValue); }; This page was last edited on 13 July 2022, at 18:49. The South Armagh IRA. [13] Another noted IRA commander at that time was the commanding officer of the first battalion, Captain Michael McVerry. userID: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.user_id, Rory Finnis, 21, from Derry, who was found dead in June 1991. }; ","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. return 'home-delivery'; 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. 3 March Herbert Burrows, a 37-year-old Protestant civilian, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb which was attached to a door at his Alexander Road funeral parlour exploded, killing him instantly. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_annual') > -1) { }; 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 subscriberCookieStatus = getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'; [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { Michael McKevitt and his wife Bernadette were evicted from their home near Dundalk. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. subscriptionStartDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); A farm complex by the village of Crossmaglen in South Armagh fell under suspicion and was put under surveillance. if (parts.shift() === key) { 24 July 1990 Joshua Willis (35), William Hanson (37) and David Sterritt (34), all members of the RUC, and, 1 March 24-year-old Paul Sutcliffe, who came from. [2] It has allegedly been commanded since the 1970s by Thomas 'Slab' Murphy who is also alleged to be a member of the IRA's Army Council. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; "The last armoured patrol in South Armagh, attacked in Crossmaglen October 1975 killing Cpl Gleeson. subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', 31 July 1993 - A British Army mobile checkpoint was fired at by an IRA sniper at Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. Men from the area also took part in IRA campaigns in the 1940 and 1950s. 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