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. subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', A farm complex by the village of Crossmaglen in South Armagh fell under suspicion and was put under surveillance. In case of an emergency, do not send message, dial 911. She had gone to Belfast after spending some of the night drinking in Armagh, and had fallen in with a crowd of loyalist men and women who, realising that she was a Catholic from Armagh, took her to a house on Cregagh Street on the pretense of having a party. Other alleged illegal activities involve fraud through embezzlement of agricultural subsidies and false claims of property loss. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'corporate_account'); subscriptionStartDate: '', South Armagh, however, where the close rural community and family connections of IRA men diminished the risk of infiltration, retained its larger "battalion" structure. Following intelligence that the IRA were using farms as bases of operations / weapons caches, the Police, assisted by Army intelligence operatives, began a series of surveillance and search operations. userID: purchase.granted_by_corporate_account.user_id, 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. [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. Many of the major IRA bombs in England this decade, including Canary Wharf. 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, which effectively ran the organisation from the early 1980s. 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. return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 subtree: true, The County of Orange closed the application period for the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Program on April 30, 2021. 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 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. cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookieValue); The man, who has the official title of \u0026#039;officer commanding\u0026#039; South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA, is also a member of the \u0026#039;Northern Command\u0026#039;, the ruling body which effectively ran the organisation from the early 1980s. window.loadGTM(); Three British soldiers and a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) member were wounded. The man is a close associate of the Provos' border boss Thomas 'Slab' Murphy (pictured), Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. }); window.showSubscriberElements = true; const getSubscriptionStatus = function (purchase) { const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; Hodder & Stoughton. const cookieData = getSubscriptionStatus(purchase); } 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. By the end of the 1970s, the IRA in most of Northern Ireland had been restructured into a cell system. Fri 19 Mar 1999 23.07 EST. !gigyaID ? const gigyaID = getCookie('guid'); !gigyaID ? 27 November 34-year-old former RUC member John Martin is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his filling station on the Mall. return; const observer = new MutationObserver(onMutation); Says It Killed Tory M.P. 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. let flipPayConfig = { [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. return 'epaper-access'; mutations.forEach((mutation) => { 30 July Martin Malone, an 18-year-old unarmed Catholic civilian, is shot dead by a UDR patrol in the Callan Street area. } 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. } His body was recovered in Crossmaglen in south Armagh. [47] The Omagh bombing of August 1998, a botched Real IRA operation which killed 29 civilians, was prepared by dissident republicans in South Armagh. } return cookieData; [27] However, the South Armagh Brigade continued to carry out varied and high-profile attacks in the same period. 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. [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. . The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. const isGrantedBy = function (grant) { const subscriberCookieStatus = getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'; 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. item_group_code: "pfc_indo", He had just finished his last shift in the regiment when he was shot outside his home. A British border patrol searches a lorry in 1969. 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. The workers' bus was stopped and the one Catholic worker taken aside before the others were killed. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. subscriptionStatus: 'Corporate', He had charge of the IRA\u0026#039;s Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s.The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army\u0026#039;s SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. There were no injuries on either side. }; bodyAvailable = true; } 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. }; 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. 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. [51][52], Since the army wind-down in 2007, security in the area is the sole responsibility of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. [20], During the mid-1980s, the brigade focused its attacks on the RUC, killing 20 of its members between 1984 and 1986. Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. South Armagh IRA rocked as 'OC' is outed as a 'tout', 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. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. observer.disconnect(); if (vars.article) { 27 August 1992 - An unsuccessful attack was launched by a sniper on a British Army patrol at Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. Let the message from south Armagh ring loud and clear to the occupation forces. vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; return key.indexOf('granted_by_') > -1; window.loadGTM = function () { 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. 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. Belton was shot and injured by other members of the patrol, but managed to flee to the Republic. In September 1975 they attacked an Orange lodge in Newtownhamilton, killing five members of the lodge. Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. He was finishing work building garages at the back of the Housing Executive offices on Dobbin Street when the gunman struck. 15/11/1974 Michael McVerry O.C. Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. 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. A Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesman confirmed that an investigation was underway, but also stated that both Sinn Fin Ministers and everyone attending the parade were unaware that "the proper paperwork hadn't been submitted". 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. if (isGrantedBy('whitelist_rule')) { FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. } const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); bundle: bundleValue, Toby Harnden has interviewed members . Murphy was lightly wounded and arrested by the RUC. [15] In response, the British government stated that it was dispatching the Special Air Service (SAS) to South Armagh, although the SAS had been present in the area for many years. 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[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). 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'. One gunman opened fire while another planted the bomb. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, He had charge of the IRA's border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. Then, in January 1976, after a series of loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attacks on Catholic civilians in the border areas (including the Reavey and O'Dowd killings the previous day), the group shot and killed ten Protestant workmen in the "Kingsmill massacre" near Bessbrook. The new Irish Sea Border: What does it mean? McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. 25 July 1994 - A British soldier was shot and wounded by the IRA in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. It is within the Ring of Gullion and in the 2011 Census it had a recorded population of 498. He was due to retire in five weeks. window.IMP.config = flipPayConfig; subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.sku_code, OCFire Rescue. } 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. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; @OCFireRescue. if (parts.shift() === key) { })(); Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. He was identified as the IRA's chief technical officer by the Central Intelligence Agency. The British patrol manning the checkpoint returned fire. vars.article.wallVisible = ! 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. The loyalties of many people in Northern Ireland's South Armagh are with the neighboring Irish republic. He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. } const subscriberCookie = JSON.parse(getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'); When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. 1,168 Following. [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. [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. const eventType = event.detail.event_type; 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. 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. childList: true, He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. window.GTMLoaded = true; 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. [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. He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. 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. const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); 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. $553 (2019) Beds. [18] In August 1979, a South Armagh unit killed 18 soldiers in the Warrenpoint ambush. listenForFlipPayEvents(); 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;. } In one such ambush in August 1972, a Ferret armoured car was destroyed by a 600lb landmine, killing one soldier. Dates in bold indicate a death by a sniper. 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). const domain = '.independent.ie'; } subscriptionStatus: 'Whitelist', if (!! In 1986, the British Army erected ten hilltop observation posts in South Armagh. [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. }; 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. After that a struggle ensued in which Corrigan was shot at point-blank range in the head. [26] 1990s [ edit] Nine of these were killed in the February 1985 Newry mortar attack. 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. userID: '', window.showSubscriberElements) { Elliott was press officer for the Armagh branch of the. if (event.detail.object.access === true) { 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 . window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; 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;. '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= document.head.append(script); The gunmen then escaped in a Ford Cortina which was found abandoned a short time later in the Windmill Hill area of the city. He along with another man were apparently intending to break into the supermarket when Harker was shot by members of a UDR patrol. [24] As the divisional commander for South Armagh, Breen was the most senior policeman to have been killed during the Troubles. 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. The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. subscriptionStatus: '', Men from the area also took part in IRA campaigns in the 1940 and 1950s. The fierceness of the republicanism expressed by people like the local historians I spoke to is unsettling. 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. if (window.GTMLoaded === true) { He was eventually killed during an attack on the RUC barracks in Keady in November 1973. const script = document.createElement('script'); 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. He was the 267th RUC officer to die in the Troubles. Official information from Orange County Fire Rescue's Public Information Office. 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. 22 January Derek Monteith, a 35-year-old inspector in the RUC, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA in the kitchen of his home in Kilburn Park off the Portadown Road in the city. At that moment, a gun battle was taking place on the ground between British soldiers and members of the South Armagh Brigade. [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 South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. } 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. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { }); return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; if (flipPayJsUrl) { 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. Ten workers were murdered after the IRA ambushed their van in 1976 By Linda Stewart Wed 17 May 2017 at 18:30 An inquest has heard how the south Armagh brigade of the Provisional IRA was. [21] Three months later, a further four RUC officers were killed by a 900 lb roadside bomb at Killean, County Armagh.[22]. [36] while in 1994 another Lynx and an RAF Puma were shot down in March and July respectively. When there, Ms Smyth was followed upstairs by five men, who savagely beat and strangled her. }; He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. 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. Edit ] Nine of these were killed in the same period Martin is dead. Before the others were killed in the February 1985 Newry mortar attack that moment, a Ferret armoured was. 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