A new full inquest is to be held into the IRA massacre of 10 Protestant workers shot dead in South Armagh in 1976. 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. 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 man is a close associate of the Provos' border boss Thomas 'Slab' Murphy (pictured), Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. [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. } const element = mutation.target; let cookieValue = parts.join('='); 1,168 Following. vars.category.regionals = selectedRegional || ''; if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { const grantedBy = Object.keys(purchase).filter(function (key) { 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. 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. 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. 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'. Toby Harnden has interviewed members . return { [11], During the early 1970s, the brigade was mostly engaged in ambushes of British Army patrols. One gunman opened fire while another planted the bomb. }; 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); The men were taken out of their minibus and then . vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; 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. 27 November 34-year-old former RUC member John Martin is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his filling station on the Mall. if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { return key.indexOf('granted_by_') > -1; }; 14 November Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) chairman of Armagh District Council and part-time major in the UDR Charles Armstrong is killed in a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explosion as he sat in his car outside the council's headquarters at the Palace Demense. To republicans, it is 'God's Country', the only area in the six counties where the occupiers have successfully been resisted. 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. 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. return 'premium-plus'; A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. When there, Ms Smyth was followed upstairs by five men, who savagely beat and strangled her. return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 A British border patrol searches a lorry in 1969. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. 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. vars.article.userWall = 'none'; // Regionals Container !subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus ? In March 1989, two senior RUC officers were killed in an ambush near Jonesborough. document.body.addEventListener('fp_user_event', function (event) { 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'. The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. if (event.detail.object.access === true) { return 'none'; It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. 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. A farm complex by the village of Crossmaglen in South Armagh fell under suspicion and was put under surveillance. 15.5K Followers. enable_showcase: true, 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. window.loadGTM = function () { There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. bundle: bundleValue, McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, return { subtree: true, After that a struggle ensued in which Corrigan was shot at point-blank range in the head. [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. Elliott was press officer for the Armagh branch of the. bundle: 'premium-plus', 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. window.showSubscriberElements(); 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. He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. 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. return 'premium'; }).map(function (key) { He was identified as the IRA's chief technical officer by the Central Intelligence Agency. 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. The IRA claimed that he was a member of the UDR, something that was denied by the police and army. 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. 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". if (parts.shift() === key) { He was eventually killed during an attack on the RUC barracks in Keady in November 1973. [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. The \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. [24] As the divisional commander for South Armagh, Breen was the most senior policeman to have been killed during the Troubles. [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. 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). 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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. He had just left Drumadd Barracks and was on his way to nearby. He had left the UDR the year before. console.log('observer.observe failed:', e); Harnden was held to be in contempt of the Bloody Sunday tribunal for . const domain = '.independent.ie'; Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. 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. 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. item_group_code: "pfc_indo", }; He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. In September 1975 they attacked an Orange lodge in Newtownhamilton, killing five members of the lodge. 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. 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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. Other alleged illegal activities involve fraud through embezzlement of agricultural subsidies and false claims of property loss. 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". } . Purchase Price. A further 75 civilians were killed in the area during the conflict,[6] as well as ten South Armagh Brigade members. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); On 7 August of that year, Harry Thornton, a 29-year-old sewage worker from South Armagh was shot and killed by the British Army while staying in a car outside Springfield Road base in Belfast, he and his coworker Arthur Murphy having been mistaken for gunmen. 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. 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. He was later acquitted of any charges, but he eventually agreed in 2006 to pay 500,000 for cross-border smuggling. script.src = flipPayJsUrl; bodyAvailable) { 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. The dead man was from Knockamell Park in Armagh city. 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. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, "The fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead. The patrol then immediately fled the scene, the police (once informed) took over 4 hours to respond. [13] Another noted IRA commander at that time was the commanding officer of the first battalion, Captain Michael McVerry. His Catholic girlfriend was driving behind him in her car when the explosion happened. 8 November Adrian Carroll, a 24-year-old. 20 December Austin Smith, a 44-year-old Catholic member of the UDR, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA as he returned to his home on the Windmill estate in a heavily nationalist part of the city. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA active service unit on armed operations. He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. He was due to retire in five weeks. return 'home-delivery'; He regarded as exceptions the East Tyrone IRA unit, led by Jim Lynagh who was killed in an SAS ambush during an IRA attack on Loughall RUC base in 1987, and the "tight as a drum" South Armagh . userID: purchase.granted_by_whitelist_rule.user_id, The south Armagh IRA even discovered ground not covered by the watchtowers for sniper attacks in the 1990s. 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. return { window.loadGTM(); script.type = 'text/javascript'; document.head.append(script); vars.article.wallVisible = ! 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'. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. return cookieValue; }; return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. window.IMP = window.IMP || {}; 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. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. 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. try { In one such ambush in August 1972, a Ferret armoured car was destroyed by a 600lb landmine, killing one soldier. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.sku_code, if (cookieValue) { Contents 1 Background [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. 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. "The last armoured patrol in South Armagh, attacked in Crossmaglen October 1975 killing Cpl Gleeson. [60], "The Saracen armoured car blown up by a culvert bomb at Lurganculleboy, near Crossmaglen in October 1975, killing Corporal Edward Gleeson. (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': Fri 19 Mar 1999 23.07 EST. 3 April 1993 - A British soldier was shot and injured by the IRA near Crossmaglen, South Armagh. 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. Hodder & Stoughton. Stock image. [19] This was the biggest single loss of life inflicted on the British Army in its deployment in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner). He was driving his minibus when a car pulled up beside it and a gunman opened fire on him. Men from the area also took part in IRA campaigns in the 1940 and 1950s. 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. return 'home-delivery'; vars.user.subscriptionStartDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStartDate || ''; subscriptionStartDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. $553 (2019) Beds. const getBundleValue = function (purchase, purchaseType) { McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. 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":""}}' || '{}'); } Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. 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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. }; 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. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. 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. Media. [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. $69,194 (2019) Property Taxes. const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); Hair tattoos becoming increasingly popular among men in Ireland. 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. }; 211 Orange County ERA, your comprehensive resource in Capistrano Beach California. window.showSubscriberElements) { The single Mk-15 mortar bomb landed 40 yards (37m) short of the perimeter fence. if (vars.article) { ","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. Wed 17 Sep 2014 11.51 EDT. 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