One gunman opened fire while another planted the bomb. }; return 'premium'; }; A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. [42] When the IRA resumed its campaign in 1996-97, the South Armagh IRA was less active than previously,[43] although one of the sniper teams killed one soldier and seriously wounded an RUC constable. subscriptionFinishDate: '', Contents 1 Background [26], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the IRA elsewhere in Northern Ireland found that nine out of ten planned operations were aborted. [24] As the divisional commander for South Armagh, Breen was the most senior policeman to have been killed during the Troubles. const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); The IRA claimed that he was a member of the UDR, something that was denied by the police and army. 18 April 1992 Brendan McWilliams (50), a Catholic civilian employee of the British Army, was shot and killed by the IRA at his home at Nialls Crescent, off the Killylea Road. Overall, the South Armagh Sniper operation carried out by the IRA was one of the most successful operations of that era of the troubles. 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The \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. The unveiling involved a large republican parade which failed to comply with the procedures of the Parades Commission. 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. 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. [8], At the beginning of the Northern Ireland Troubles in August 1969, rioters, led by IRA men, attacked the RUC barracks in Crossmaglen, in retaliation for the attacks on Catholic/nationalist areas in Belfast in the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969. 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. He had just left Drumadd Barracks and was on his way to nearby. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; He is a close associate of the Provos\u0026#039; Border boss, Thomas \u0026#039;Slab\u0026#039; Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein.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 Sunday Independent has learned that the South Armagh \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; was outed as a \u0026#039;tout\u0026#039; 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 \u0026#039;movement\u0026#039;. SDLP MP, 17 November David Halligan, a 57-year-old UDR member, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA on the Hamiltonsbawn Road on the outskirts of the city. Orange County; Winter Garden; Seminole Street; 537 Seminole Street Winter Garden, FL 34787. , South Armagh IRA is killed on active service during an attack on Keady barracks. vars.article.wallVisible = ! } The capture of the sniper team was the single major success for the security forces in South Armagh in more than a decade,[44] and was arguably among the most important of the Troubles,[45] but by then, the IRA and Sinn Fin had achieved huge political gains towards their long-term goals. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. return cookieValue; 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. [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. Nine of these were killed in the February 1985 Newry mortar attack. 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. return; } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium-plus') > -1) { [25], South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. This was the last action of the IRA Armagh Sniper teams. 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He had just finished his last shift in the regiment when he was shot outside his home. 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. [1] Over the course of the Troubles, although mainly concentrated in the years from 1969 until 1994, the small city of around 15,000 people, including some outlying areas, saw 86 deaths, including those of a number of people from the city who lost their lives elsewhere in Troubles-related incidents.[2]. 3 April 1993 - A British soldier was shot and injured by the IRA near Crossmaglen, South Armagh. bundle: 'premium-plus', McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. [60], "The Saracen armoured car blown up by a culvert bomb at Lurganculleboy, near Crossmaglen in October 1975, killing Corporal Edward Gleeson. [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. 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. 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":""}}' || '{}'); const gigyaID = getCookie('guid'); Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. Tweets & replies. He was the 267th RUC officer to die in the Troubles. } By the end of the 1970s, the IRA in most of Northern Ireland had been restructured into a cell system. 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. He had charge of the IRA's border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. The culmination of Harnden's work in Northern Ireland was the publication of Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (Hodder & Stoughton 1999), which sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide and is considered essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the Irish Troubles. }; Wed 19 Mar 2003 20.45 EST. bundle: bundleValue, if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. 10 November Charles Neville, a 56-year-old Protestant and former member of the UDR, is killed in a Provisional IRA gun and grenade attack on his car at the Loughgall Road. The fierceness of the republicanism expressed by people like the local historians I spoke to is unsettling. [33][34], The South Armagh Brigade was by far the most effective IRA brigade in shooting down British helicopters during the conflict. script.src = flipPayJsUrl; 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, return key.indexOf('granted_by_') > -1; You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_annual') > -1) { The men were taken out of their minibus and then . 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. } T uesday marked. Wed 17 Sep 2014 11.51 EDT. [13] Another noted IRA commander at that time was the commanding officer of the first battalion, Captain Michael McVerry. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. 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 South Armagh Brigade retaliated for the deaths of the hunger strikers by killing five British soldiers with a mine that destroyed their armoured vehicle near Bessbrook. His younger brother, a member of the UDR, had lost both legs in an IRA attack on the Mall in 1982. Harnden, Toby (1999). let bodyAvailable = false; Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. if (isGrantedBy('app_purchase')) { It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA active service unit on armed operations. The dead youth, from the townland of Ballymoran just outside Armagh city, was learning to drive and had offered to put his father's car in the garage when the explosion happened. 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 owner of the farm was also arrested. observer.observe(document, { vars.user.subscriptionStartDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStartDate || ''; Their discontent was deepened by Sinn Fin's endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? To republicans, it is 'God's Country', the only area in the six counties where the occupiers have successfully been resisted. 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. 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. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.original_start_at, // Regionals Container }; [59], A memorial garden was unveiled on 3 October 2010 in the village of Mullaghbawn, near Slieve Gullion mountain, with the names of 24 members of the South Armagh Brigade who died from different causes over the years inscribed upon a marble monument, along a bronze statue of Irish mythological hero C Chulainn. He was identified as the IRA's chief technical officer by the Central Intelligence Agency. The gunmen then escaped in a Ford Cortina which was found abandoned a short time later in the Windmill Hill area of the city. The man is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. Subsequently, the British Army gave up the use of roads to the IRA in South Armagh. // Push initial dataLayer values into object. vars.article.wallVisible = 'false'; return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 }; if (!! South Armagh has long been the IRA stronghold and any defections would be a devastating blow to the leadership. The dead man was from Knockamell Park in Armagh city. vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; The County of Orange closed the application period for the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Program on April 30, 2021. userID: purchase.granted_by_purchase.user_id, cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookieValue); It is not clear how the \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; 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 team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. const grantedBy = Object.keys(purchase).filter(function (key) { It exploded as they ran to a getaway car, causing the building to collapse. [26] 1990s [ edit] 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. }); meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, subscriptionStatus: 'Whitelist', After that a struggle ensued in which Corrigan was shot at point-blank range in the head. [17] Corden-Lloyd's subordinates had been accused of brutality against Catholic civilians in Belfast in 1971. const isGrantedBy = function (grant) { The latter is suspected of playing a role in the London bombings that marked the end of the IRA. [49] IRA members in South Armagh ceased co-operating with the RIRA after the Omagh bombing. 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. 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'. Although from Armagh city, he was a member of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade. const domain = '.independent.ie'; premium_content: false, 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 September 1975 they attacked an Orange lodge in Newtownhamilton, killing five members of the lodge. userID: purchase.granted_by_corporate_account.user_id, The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. 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. [20], During the mid-1980s, the brigade focused its attacks on the RUC, killing 20 of its members between 1984 and 1986. 13 April 38-year-old Territorial Army sergeant Trevor Elliott from Alexander Gardens in the city is shot dead by the Provisional IRA as he walked from his shop in Keady, south Armagh. if (parts.shift() === key) { [35] The shooting down of the Lynx in 1994 during a mortar attack on Crossmaglen barracks is regarded by Toby Harnden as the most successful IRA operation against a helicopter in the course of the Troubles. 7 September 61-year-old Catholic RUC man John Wasson is shot dead by the INLA outside his Duke's Grove home in a nationalist area of the city. But there's more: discover your full benefits now. 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. He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. } childList: true, 30 July Martin Malone, an 18-year-old unarmed Catholic civilian, is shot dead by a UDR patrol in the Callan Street area. The South Armagh IRA. IN A SHOW OF SOLIDARITY with the McCabe family, republicans from across the country travelled to south Armagh to tell the criminals behind the attack which left Francis McCabe Junior badly injured last week that their activities are a disgrace. "The last armoured patrol in South Armagh, attacked in Crossmaglen October 1975 killing Cpl Gleeson. return { The mortar round hit and shot down the helicopter, serial number ZD275, [1] while it was hovering over the helipad. The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. The OC of the Southern Command is said to be a man living in the Tallaght area of Dublin. return; 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. if (isGrantedBy('whitelist_rule')) { window.dataLayer.push(vars); 'none' : 'registration'; It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. A further 75 civilians were killed in the area during the conflict,[6] as well as ten South Armagh Brigade members. if (subscriberCookieStatus === "undefined") { window.IMP.config = flipPayConfig; Robinson was a former member of the UDR. 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. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, 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. mutations.forEach((mutation) => { const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); observer.disconnect(); [12] IRA volunteer amon McGuire, a former Aer Lingus senior engineer, and his team claim that they were responsible for getting the British Army "off the ground and into the air" in South Armagh. He had been in the garden of an RUC member's house and was getting ready to launch an attack on him when undercover soldiers shot him during a gun-battle. Purchase Price. The Troubles in Armagh recounts incidents during The Troubles in Armagh City, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; the violence was substantial enough for a stretch of road on the outskirts of the city to be referred to by one RUC officer as "Murder Mile". There were also frequent gun attacks on foot patrols. return 'epaper-access'; script.type = 'text/javascript'; It is Pearse's message and it has not changed. He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. 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. 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