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Rory Finnis, 21, from Derry, who was found dead in June 1991. Raymond McCreesh, a South Armagh man, was among the ten republican hunger strikers who died for this goal in the 1981 hunger strike. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { [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. }; bundle: 'premium-plus', } if (isGrantedBy('purchase')) { Men from the area also took part in IRA campaigns in the 1940 and 1950s. Overview of The Troubles in Armagh City, Northern Ireland, "Irish Police Face Peril of 'Murder Mile', "Issues: Violence McKittrick, Kelters, Feeney and Thornton (1999) Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles", "Madden and Finucane Closing Submissions (including excerpts from The Scarman Report)", "Five injured as Staffords are lured into Armagh booby trap", "Newton Emerson: Licensing next war is Adams's real legacy", "Calls for 'honesty' and inquiry over Troubles-related killings", "Paramilitary Feuds in Northern Ireland A Chronology of Events", "Gunmen Shoot Part-time Soldier, IRA Claims Responsibility", "Police inspector shot dead in Northern Ireland", "I.R.A. const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); @OCFireRescue. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. Orange County; Winter Garden; Seminole Street; 537 Seminole Street Winter Garden, FL 34787. vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], Burrows came from Ballinahone Avenue in the city. 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. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. 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. [39] By 1994, the only way for the British army to travel safely across South Armagh and some border areas of Tyrone and Fermanagh was on board troop-carrying Chinook helicopters.[40]. userID: purchase.granted_by_whitelist_rule.user_id, 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. His father-in-law, Joseph Wilson, a member of the UDR, had been shot dead by the Provisional IRA a short distance away in 1976. Hair tattoos becoming increasingly popular among men in Ireland. Sources say that shortly before they were captured, the team was given orders by the \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. 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 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. vars.article.wallVisible = ! window.loadGTM(); 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. 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. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); 1,168 Following. Discover your full benefits as a Premium subscriber. 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. 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. }); 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. 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. Sources say that shortly before they were captured, the team was given orders by the 'OC' not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. } [10], However, the IRA campaign in the area did not begin in earnest until 1971. His Catholic girlfriend was driving behind him in her car when the explosion happened. He along with another man were apparently intending to break into the supermarket when Harker was shot by members of a UDR patrol. 'false' : 'true'; if (parts.shift() === key) { 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 made on the man in order to save embarrassment for the organisation. Wed 17 Sep 2014 11.51 EDT. Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for. const flipPayJsUrl = 'https://cdn.flip-pay.com/clients/inm/flip-pay.js'; 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 helicopter crashed while taking evasive manoeuvres after being fired at from the east side of Edenappa road. 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. These squads were responsible for killing seven soldiers and two RUC members until the Caraher team was finally caught by the Special Air Service in April 1997. Nine of these were killed in the February 1985 Newry mortar attack. He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. The owner of the farm was also arrested. To the army, South Armagh is 'Bandit Country', 200 square miles of the most dangerous and hostile terrain in Northern Ireland which has claimed the lives of 115 soldiers since 1969. 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. 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[16] While loyalist attacks on Catholics temporarily declined afterwards and many Protestants became more reluctant to help the UVF, the massacre caused considerable controversy in the republican movement. vars.category.regionals = selectedRegional || ''; return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; The barrack buster, fired from the back of a local baker's delivery van, exploded on the helipad shortly after the pilot had managed to take off. The truck bombs were sent to England by ferry. The \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. 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. 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. The patrol then immediately fled the scene, the police (once informed) took over 4 hours to respond. subscriptionFinishDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', return 'premium-plus'; On 11 June 1993, the South Armagh Brigade attempted to shoot down a Puma helicopter taking off from the Crossmaglen base with an improvised mortar. It is Pearse's message and it has not changed. Other alleged illegal activities involve fraud through embezzlement of agricultural subsidies and false claims of property loss. const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); [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. . There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. vars.user.subscriptionStatus = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus || ''; 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. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. ", Sinn Fein ministers McGuinness and Murphy in illegal parade, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provisional_IRA_South_Armagh_Brigade&oldid=1098002029. 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. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, 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. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. 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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. const isGrantedBy = function (grant) { Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. 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. In a statement released by the IRA at the time they denied any role in it. [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. By the end of the 1970s, the IRA in most of Northern Ireland had been restructured into a cell system. 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It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA active service unit on armed operations. const updateSubscriberCookie = function (purchase) { document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "= ; path=/;domain=" + domain + ";expires = Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"; 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. ","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. He had just left Drumadd Barracks and was on his way to nearby. Three British soldiers and a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) member were wounded. script.src = flipPayJsUrl; Welcome! The man is a close associate of the Provos' border boss Thomas 'Slab' Murphy (pictured), Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. [28] By 1991, the RUC acknowledged that no mobile patrols had operated in South Armagh without Army support since 1975.[29]. 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. if (event.detail.object.access === true) { 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;. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. 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. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. const listenForFlipPayEvents = function () { Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, 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. [53], Senior IRA figures in South Armagh, notably Thomas Murphy, are alleged to have been involved in large-scale smuggling across the Irish border and money-laundering. The fact that the IRA executed the action despite the presence of a British Army watchtower nearby, caused outrage among British and Irish parliamentary circles. [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. In 2006, the British and Irish authorities mounted joint operations to clamp down on smuggling in the area and to seize Thomas Murphy's assets. bodyAvailable = true; 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'. return { When he was 17 he had witnessed his father Peter Corrigan, a Sinn Fin member, being shot dead by the UVF in the city. His brother Michael Caraher, who was severely wounded in the shooting, later became the commander of one of the South Armagh sniper squads. }; if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_monthly') > -1) { His younger brother, a member of the UDR, had lost both legs in an IRA attack on the Mall in 1982. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { 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. South Armagh is a strange place for this Northern-born Protestant and Dublin resident, albeit one who was active in the Northern Ireland civil rights movement in the 1960s and is a proud Irish citizen. show_spinner: false, He retired as president of Ireland's District Court and in 2006 went on to lead a tribunal of inquiry into alleged Garda collusion in the 1989 murders of two RUC officers in south Armagh. $69,194 (2019) Property Taxes. } Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, Please check your inbox to verify your details, North coast fragrance company to be stocked in high-end Dublin stores, David Beckham enjoys pint with son Cruz on birthday visit to Dublin, Jamie Dornan to return as The Tourist, and this time hes in Ireland, Bad news for Banshees as SAG awards traditionally a good indicator of Oscar success, Enda Kenny on road to recovery after operation to remove cancer, Enoch Burkes fines rise to 22,400 as he turns up to school again, Boy convicted of Dublin murder was a ticking time bomb, says psychologist on what makes a child a killer, We have to be careful we dont give all the spotlight to the racists Tnaiste Michel Martin interview, Brooke Scullion visits former school with Dancing with the Stars partner Robert Rowinski, Irish Peacemaker bishop was asleep in bed when shot dead in Los Angeles home, DCI John Caldwell: Two further arrests made in attempted murder investigation, Saoradh posts police officers picture and name after stop and search dispute, RBAI produce stunning second half display to see off Wallace and reach Schools Cup Final, Sammy Wilson criticises Windsor Framework and very dangerous King Charles meeting, Thug bailed days before murdering father-of-four Pat Ward, Rihanna has sparked a conversation about our role and rights when pregnant say NI working mums, Im being held hostage by my newborn baby who seems to know Im out of my depth, My moment of zen in Murlough Bay on the Causeway Coast, Portadown man in court accused of murdering three-year-old son, Four arrested in relation to DCI Caldwells attempted murder released unconditionally, DUPs Gregory Campbell calls on rigorous implementer parties to accept they were wrong about NI Protocol, DCI John Caldwell: The New IRA threat after Omagh shooting. })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KJF4'); The normalisation process, negotiated under the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement in exchange for the complete decommissioning of IRA weaponry, was one of the main goals of the republican political strategy in the region. 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. vars.article.wallVisible = ! bodyAvailable) { [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. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.sku_code, const gigyaID = getCookie('guid'); 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":""}}' || '{}'); Dates in bold indicate a death by a sniper. 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