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After breaking from Sinn Fin he stood as an independent republican in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. The embarrassment is that a customs man might arrive and show that there is a Border.. Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. [35][36][37], On 24 March 1990, there was a gun battle between an IRA unit and undercover British forces in the main street of the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone, in which IRA members fired at a civilian-type car driven by security forces, according to Archie Hamilton, then Secretary of State for Defence. A former IRA leader in east Tyrone has disputed claims that loyalists and republicans reached an "understanding" after a secret meeting in the early 1990s. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. They could kill many British security force. A soldier was seriously wounded. Neither republican sees a great prospect of a united Ireland after Brexit. The East Tyrone IRA saw its activities decline by the 1990s following repeated SAS ambushes. In the aftermath of the bombing, on 9 May, a sergeant mayor of the 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment was shot and killed by a soldier of his company in a blue-on-blue incident at the same spot, while taking part of a security detail around the devastated base. [33] In October 1990, two IRA volunteers from the brigade, Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey, were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers while allegedly collecting two rifles from an IRA arms dump. This is the story of the war in the fields, towns and villages of East Tyrone, as told by the people who fought it. This in response to a complaint from DUP AssemblymanWilliam McCreaaccusing the GAA of turning a blind eye to "republican terrorist" events in the last years. According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. It is hugely insulting, Lynagh says as he picks nicotine gum from a wrapper. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. The RUC officer, William Logan (aged 23), who was driving the police patrol vehicle was mortally wounded and died the following day, he was the first RUC officer killed by the brigade. [56][57][58], A part-time RUC barracks at Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, in the operational area of the brigade, was destroyed by an IRA van-bomb on 7 May 1992, though the attack was claimed by the South Fermanagh Brigade. "It was never going to be delivered by the normal means, by the Irish themselves, but it could come about through the break-up of the so-called United Kingdom," he says as he sits in an armchair in his living room, in front of shelves of history books that reflect his past studies at Trinity College Dublin and his background in teaching. [107] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. Anthony McIntyre, an IRA man turned writer and historian who is another supporter of the peace process but critic of Sinn Fin, fails to see how a hard Brexit would fuel any new armed campaign, given that it was not the Border that brought the Provisional IRA into existence but the response in Belfast and Derry to the British armys behaviour when it came to the North. Both share left-wing views and believe that the interests of Border counties are not being well served by the European Union. The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry. [68], At least two minor engagements occurred in the following weeks between members of the brigade and British Army foot patrols. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. [87] On 30 April, a heavy horizontal mortar was fired at an RUC patrol vehicle near Ballygawley roundabout; the round missed its target and hit a wall. Quinn was then a senior member of the IRA's East Tyrone brigade. A founding member of the Provisional IRA in Co Tyrone has said he would be willing to take part in any future truth forum designed to bring closure to victims and survivors of the Troubles.. [34] On 3 June, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Michael Ryan and Tony Doris, died in another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was riddled with gunfire. The South Armagh area was considered to be a liberated zone already, since British troops and the RUC could not use the roads there for fear of roadside bombs and long-range harassing fire. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. Three of the four are convicted killers or have served time in relation to a killing. He voted for Brexit in the hope that it would lead to a united Ireland through the disintegration of the UK. Interviewees suggest the vast countryside made rural IRA units particularly dangerous. A NEW REPORT by Relatives for Justice into a British Army SAS ambush in 1992 that left four Tyrone IRA Volunteers dead says the men were killed in "a premeditated and pre-planned" attack when they could have been arrested instead. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. 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In January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. I dont mean that in terms of violence. The peace process is dead if you cant throw up the old monster of potential violence, he says. Ed Moloney, Irish journalist and author of the Secret History of the IRA, states that the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed in the Troubles - the highest of any Brigade area. Thus it was from there that the IRA East Tyrone Brigade attacks were launched, with most of them occurring in east Tyrone in areas close to south Armagh, which offered good escape routes. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). Five Sinn Fin cumainn, and 90% of the East Tyrone Brigade, left in the move. 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, where there was a bomb alert. Ed Moloney is an Irish journalist who frequently covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland. [26], On 11 February 1990 the brigade managed to shoot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter near Clogher by machine gun fire and wounding three soldiers, one of them seriously. McIntyre sees the argument that unionists would be better off economically in a united Ireland within the EU than they would in a post-Brexit UK as a crass case of economic reductionism. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. Ed Moloney. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. [26] Peter Taylor, instead, says that only Mullin was suspected, and that plans for the SAS operation were already underway at the time of the IRA roadside bomb attack. Brexit will not lead to a return to bloodshed in Northern Ireland, says one Provisional IRA veteran. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. There were no casualties. The IRA men were intercepted by the SAS as they were trying to dump the lorry and escape in cars in the car park of Clonoe Roman Catholic church, whose roof was set on fire by Army flares. They dont throw away remarks like that.. [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. On 30 August, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin as they tried to kill an off-duty Ulster Defence Regiment member near Carrickmore. Death made heroes of the Loughgall eight. [113] An IRA man was taken in custody in Newtownstewart, west Tyrone, on 10 July 1993, after being injured during a mishap while testing an improvised mortar in a barn near Dungannon. [119] Two of the wounded were also off-duty UDR soldiers. [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. [50] The later attack led to allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region. [51], Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. When the IRA responded by killing a retired UDR member, Leslie Dallas,[122] and two elderly Protestants, Austin Nelson and Ernest Rankin at Coagh, on 7 March 1989, the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. There is very, very little appetite among republican circles in the North for a resumption of any armed campaign. The standout example is the SAS shooting of eight East Tyrone IRA members whilst the IRA attacked Loughgall RUC station in 1987. Incidentally, the RUC vehicle was carrying in custody Pat Treanor, a Sinn Fin councillor from Clones, a border town in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. [26] On 30 August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin as they tried to kill an off-duty Ulster Defence Regiment member near Carrickmore. [58] According to the indictment, another IRA member slipped into the United States from Canada with a munitions shopping list that included night vision glasses for a Ruger mini-14, 2000 nonelec . McGeough sees the Troubles as ostensibly a failure, but the UK government does not want a return to those days any more than anybody on our side does. Taken: April 5th, 2017. [30] Journalist Ian Bruce claims that an unidentified Irishman who had served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. That was not to do with economics. He pours cold water on the possibility of a nationalist majority in the North voting for Irish reunification in light of the unionists losing their majority for the first time in last months Assembly elections. . [117][115] A second soldier, Sergeant Dean Oliver, died in a fratricide incident in Fivemiletown on 9 May 1992, in the aftermath of an IRA bomb attack in the area, as mentioned above.[61][118]. [55][56][57], Six paratroopers were charged with criminal damage in the aftermath, but they were acquitted in 1993. In 1985 and 1986, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. [99][100], On 9 April 1994, after a three-day IRA ceasefire, a Mark-15 mortar was launched at midday at the British Army permanent checkpoint in Aughnacloy. G Bill Gannon George Gilmore This was denied by the dead man's family. The Tyrone republican believes that Sinn Fin is wrong to propose a special status for Northern Ireland within the European Union. Fresh claims about the meeting have. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. The British Army claimed that the mortar round exploded in a bog just outside the perimeter fence, while the IRA unit said that the bomb landed in the grounds of the barracks. They had mounted a heavy DShK machine gun on the back of a stolen lorry, driven right to the RUC/British Army station and opened fire with tracer ammunition at the fortified base at point-blank range, when the long-range of the weapon would enable them to fire from a safe distance. [121], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Next to the living-room window, with its panoramic views of the farmland and gorse-filled hedgerows of this part of the Border, is an imposing portrait that shows the tradition of agrarian agitation McGeough hails from. [39] On 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage[40] both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. Film report. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. The operation. Another street fracas on 17 May between a King's Own Scottish Borderers platoon and a group of nationalist youths in Coalisland resulted in the theft of an army machine gun and a new confrontation with the paratroopers. One RUC officer was injured. . [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. [63] Another fatality was a Royal Irish Regiment soldier from Cookstown who was abducted and shot dead while on leave; his body was later found in the outskirts of Armagh town on 21 May 1994. [6] Journalist Kevin Toolis states that from 1985 onwards, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged. Lynagh refers to the high proportion of social-welfare recipients in Monaghan, the county's "low-wage and no-wage economy" and his work distributing charity food to families. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. The lifelong Irish republican even suggests that it could as easily be argued that breaking from the European Union and joining forces with the UK would make better economic sense for the country. [5] Lynagh's plans met strong criticism from senior brigade member Kevin McKenna, who regarded the strategy as "too impractical, too ambitious, and not sustainable" in the words of journalist Ed Moloney. [23] British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the attack on the military bus at Curr road. The cops and the security services have been so on top of the armed republican groups that have been operating in the wake of the Provisional IRA. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in the The Birches attack. Stephen Fuller (d. 1984), a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence and fought with Anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War (1922-23). The former IRA volunteer served 18 years in the Maze prison for the murder of a UVF man in Belfast in February 1976. On 22 June 1992, British troops exchange fire with snipers near Cookstown,[69][58] while a British soldier from the Coldstream Guards was seriously wounded in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. He was arrested on the night of the count by the PSNI for the attempted murder of a part-time UDR soldier in 1981. [12], The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. Its all guff': Colm Lynagh, Anthony McIntyre, Gerry McGeough and Tommy McKearney Colm Lynagh, Anthony McIntyre, Gerry McGeough and Tommy McKearney. Gerry McGeough, who is now a farmer, served time in German, US and Northern Irish prisons for paramilitary-related offences, including trying to buy Stinger surface-to-air missiles in 1983 with the aim of taking down British army helicopters. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was eventually denied in 2007 due to discrepancies in the claims against her. The level of IRA activity in the area did not show any real decline in the aftermath: in the two years before the Loughgall ambush the IRA killed seven people in East Tyrone and North Armagh, and eleven in the two years following the ambush. Certainly, I think we can rule out the idea of a hard Border with British troops on the Border. They also claimed that during the follow-up search, British Army technicians defused with a controlled explosion a 50 pounds (23kg) mortar round, fired three years before. The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. Fifty people were evacuated. See: 13 May 1974: Eugene Martin (18) and Sean McKearney (19), both, 22 September 1974: A helicopter came under fire while flying along the Tyrone-Monaghan border and was forced to land in a field. Somebody who might find it difficult to smuggle because of a Border post might go out and shoot a Border-post official? The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. Sniper Assault Kills A British Soldier in Belfast", "South Armagh Brigade claims sniper attack", http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/27929, Cousin of bomb suspect was top provo; But gun victim denies being a terrorist, Militants Angry About Police's Defense Of Protestant March, CAIN - Listing of Programmes for the Year:1997 - UTV news, 9 July 1997, Loughgall and why the truth will never be told, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia. [44][45], On 31 January 1992, an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe property damage[46] to the city centre and to the RUC/Army base. [23], A major IRA attack in County Tyrone took place on 20 August 1988, barely a year after Loughall, which ended in the deaths of eight soldiers when a British Army bus was destroyed by a bomb at Curr Road, near Ballygawley. [16] Additionally, most of the attacks which took place in County Fermanagh during this period of the Troubles were also launched from south Tyrone and Monaghan. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. The armed vehicle crossed the border after the engagement. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. The air of foreboding he once sensed when crossing the river into the North doesnt exist today because the Border is imperceptible, he says. He is now president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Co Tyrone. [64], Another IRA bomb attack on 12 May 1992, against British troops on patrol near Cappagh, in which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes on that date between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. The base was raked with gunfire and a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket was driven through the perimeter fence. He goes so far as to propose an Irish exit from the EU, given the way that Brussels and the European Central Bank, in Frankfurt, landed Irish people with austerity and a hefty bill from the bank bailouts. McKearney, one of the 1980 IRA hunger strikers who went without food for 53 days, sits in his Co Monaghan kitchen next to Colm Lynagh, sipping coffee and eating biscuits, reflecting on the unknown period with Brexit ahead. [19] [127] On 11 January 1993 a former sergeant of the B-Specials (Matthew Boyd)[128] was shot dead while driving his car along Donaghmore Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. Photographs: Simon Carswell. 7 February 1976: Two Protestant teenagers, Rachel and Robert McLernon (aged 18 and 16, respectively), were killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb, intended for members of the security forces, which had been hidden in an abandoned crashed car, Tyresson Road, 3 December 1977: RUC car ambushed by IRA gunmen firing automatic weapons at Clover Hill Bridge on Benburb Road near. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads near Cookstown. I dont think we are going to see that again.. He would later serve as a member of Fianna Fil during the 1930s. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. [22] However, many of their remaining members were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes, leading to high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. You might have someone taking a potshot sometime, but if you are talking about a serious insurgency or a serious campaign, anything that remotely emulates the Provisional IRAs campaign, it is not going to happen. [40][41], On 1 January 1991, a British Army checkpoint was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. Several people was evacuated, and the bomb disposal squad struggled 10 hours to defuse the device. Lynagh and McKearney were the driving force behind most IRA murders in Tyrone and many others in the neighbouring counties for at least a decade prior to the Loughgall incident. 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. The group were also responsible for the . A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. 10 February 1997: a horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. Why would article 50 change that? A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. Nevertheless, IRA activities continued in parts of Down, Fermanagh, north and mid-Armagh by August 1994. British troops manning the outpost returned fire. This is the infrastructure that the European Union has created, and concentrating on a customs post in Aughnacloy is taking us off the core argument.. Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. GAA Central Council officialreply was that The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. 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