Lansing Gang Members Convicted for Armed Robbery Spree. 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The bomb exploded ten minutes later, destroying the barracks. U.S. Attorney's Office February 11, 2011. [9], Mural commemorating those killed in the Loughgall Ambush, On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. which the Anglo-Irish Agreement played no part, in which the promise of "JD . No casualties were reported. [52] 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, no efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. There was, of course, the inevitable historical analogue that would [21] 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. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. 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. [73], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against the RUC station in Ballygawley. [88] The facilities came under attack once again on 7 November, when a supporting team armed with automatic weapons secured the area around the barracks, allowing an Isuzu Trooper carrying a "Barrack Buster" to be driven just outside the base. Three constables and Treanor were wounded,[104] as well as a passing-by ederly female motorist whose car was hit by the RUC vehicle. their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of ambush, in which 8 IRA Volunteers and a civilian were killed in an SAS O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. were among eight members of the IRA's east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS . fluttered in every window, thousands lined the funeral routes: country However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. [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. In the small villages of Armagh and Tyrone they understood. 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. rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, fact, the governments actions would validate the Republican movements The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. A second IRA rifle team fired at a British Army Lynx helicopter sending in reinforcements to the area over the surroundings of Fivemiletown. The level of IRA activity in the area did not show any real decline in the aftermath: in the two years prior to the Loughgall ambush the IRA killed seven people in East Tyrone and North Armagh, and eleven in the two years following the ambush. Tom Gormley, Eugene What happened at Loughgall would forever be remembered by those 4 December 1983: Colm McGirr (23) and Brian Campbell (19), both members of the East Tyrone Brigade, were shot dead by an undercover British Army soldier whilst approaching an arms dump in a field near Coalisland. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. [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. The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. [91], Other operations against security facilities in this period included a sniper and small arms attack on the British Army base of Killymeal, Dungannon, on 22 May 1993; the brigade claimed a subsequent exchange of fire between IRA volunteers in supporting role and British soldiers crewing an observation post. Cathedral in Dungannon that Kelly was an upright and truthful man who After the shooting they drove past the house of Tony Doris, the IRA man killed the previous year, where they fired more shots in the air and were heard to shout, "Up the 'RA, that's for Tony Doris". shooting those not convicted of criminal offenses as soldiers of war. 1 Battalion: Unit strength on 11 July 1921 was 265 all ranks, and the strength on 1 July 1922 was 312 all ranks.The companies of the 1st. News, fell on them like wild beasts, killing twelve and tearing from [86][87], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. The four, Peter Clancy, Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell and Patrick Vincent, were killed at Clonoe after an attack on the RUC station in Coalisland. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They [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 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.[2]. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against an RUC station in Ballygawley. The four, Peter Clancy, Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell and Patrick Vincent, were killed at Clonoe after an attack on the RUC station in Coalisland. the British occupation forces., There was an absolute order to history and absolute order demanded difficult to maintain that the IRA violence was bad. [43] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. IRA recruits. They were historical people. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. Thatcher coldly informed Cardinal OFiaich in May 1981, when OFiaich A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. Patrick Vincent was gunned down in the cab of the lorry whilst Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Peter Clancy where gunned down just outside. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. [115][113] 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][116]. [127] A former UDR soldier (David Martin) was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone on 25 April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. the people. After the shooting they drove past the house of Tony Doris, the IRA man killed the previous year, where they fired more shots in the air and were heard to shout, "Up the 'RA, that's for Tony Doris". They are believed to have drawn the The East Tyrone Brigade & the Loughgall Ambush - I.R.B.B. ambush. [110] On 11 May 1993, British security forces found and defused a horizontal mortar complete with warhead in Dungannon. [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 volunteers, An Phoblact/Republican News said, had no prisoners and they took none. They had been murdered -- murder Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. [40][41], On 1 January 1991, a British Army checkpoint was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. In June 1991, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Peter Ryan and Tony Dorris were lured into yet another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was raked with gunfire and rocket propelled grenades. For though it was clear that the IRA had The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. [17], However, many of their remaining activists were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes leading to very high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. He is a male registered to vote in Ingham County, Michigan. [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. brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. [18], In December 2011, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)'s Historical Enquiries Team found that not only did the IRA team fire first but that they could not have been safely arrested. The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. Margaret Thatcher and Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. [19][unreliable source? [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. 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. E ight members of the Provos' East Tyrone Brigade were gunned down as . [59], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against an RUC station in Ballygawley. pleaded with her following Sandss death to do something to end the 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. The RUC patrol returned fire. Five of them were bound over. Two IRA men escaped the SAS ambush at Loughgall RUC station - after soldiers turned their getaway cars away from the scene. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade[1] was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". 11 August 1986: The East Tyrone Brigade destroyed the RUC base at, 23 November 1986: six British soldiers were wounded after the Brigade launched seven mortars at a British Army barracks in. evening the score. British troops manning the outpost returned fire. 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. Hurson died. [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. 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. 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. Major Shaw died at the scene. administration. Loughgall happened because the British needed maintained a system of mutual support and an assiduous sense of [13] The second was an attack on the part-time base at The Birches, County Armagh, in August 1986. operations in 1971), told the mourners packed into St. Patricks The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. The unit, moving on two vehicles from the townland of Turnabarson, managed to snake into a heavy patrolled area to the firing point on Station Road and launched the shell by timer from a range of 70 yards (64m). The device landed unexploded inside the complex, resulting in its evacuation. 26 March 1997: a grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers at the British Army/RUC base in Coalisland. 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