} [26] 1990s [ edit] Whilst security forces arrested some south Armagh republicans in 1997, republican . window.showSubscriberElements(); vars.user.gigyaID = gigyaID || ''; cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookieValue); 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. ","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. 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'. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; }; One gunman opened fire while another planted the bomb. 27 August 1992 - An unsuccessful attack was launched by a sniper on a British Army patrol at Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. Contents 1 Background More people could be killed or forced from their homes in a feud between factions of the Provisional IRA in south Armagh, republicans and security chiefs warned . script.async = true; 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. console.log('observer.observe failed:', e); const domain = '.independent.ie'; } Murphy was lightly wounded and arrested by the RUC. 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. Earlier in the day two large no-warning car bombs left by the loyalist. return 'epaper-access'; Many of the major IRA bombs in England this decade, including Canary Wharf. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, return 'home-delivery'; He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' 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. Neighborhood North of Turnpike Subdivision Pleasant Park. Photo caption # 10: Richard English, Armed Struggle, A History of the IRA, page 172, Transcripts of the Commons debate over the security situation in NI and the Cullaville incident (. }; Let the message from south Armagh ring loud and clear to the occupation forces. if (parts.shift() === key) { mutations.forEach((mutation) => { const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'corporate_account'); }; }).map(function (key) { Discover your full benefits as a Premium subscriber. [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). 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. [21] Three months later, a further four RUC officers were killed by a 900 lb roadside bomb at Killean, County Armagh.[22]. Shortly afterwards, the Army abandoned road transport in South Armagh." 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. 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. 29 March 1997 - An RUC officer was badly wounded when he was shot by a sniper outside Forkhill joint security base, County Armagh. 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". The \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. 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. } [35] The shooting down of the Lynx in 1994 during a mortar attack on Crossmaglen barracks is regarded by Toby Harnden as the most successful IRA operation against a helicopter in the course of the Troubles. There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. }); 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. October 21 2015 11:41 PM The mother of a young man who was beaten to death by a south Armagh IRA gang has demanded that Sinn Fin members stop "protecting" her son's killers. if (isGrantedBy('purchase')) { }); }; T uesday marked. if (isGrantedBy('app_purchase')) { bundle: 'none', When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army, was attacked by an IRA unit near Jonesborough, Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, took control of the village of Cullaville, deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, "Tribunal to investigate murders of RUC officers", BBC On This DAY - 20 March 1989 "Senior RUC men die in gun attack", "Governments must end immoral indulgence of Sinn Fin/IRA", Commons debate, 8 June 1993, columns 192-197, Commons debate, 8 June 1993, columns 180-191, The only way to travel across bandit country, "Final British Watchtowers being removed", "No democrat will shed tears at demise of RIR and its bases", "North-south crackdown on IRA's hidden wealth", "Is 'Slab' Murphy's bloody reign drawing to an end? subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.sku_code, There were no injuries on either side. To republicans, it is 'God's Country', the only area in the six counties where the occupiers have successfully been resisted. 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. j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? return; 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. Orange County, Florida ocfrd.com Joined May 2013. He was driving his minibus when a car pulled up beside it and a gunman opened fire on him. 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. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. Rory Finnis, 21, from Derry, who was found dead in June 1991. 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. When there, Ms Smyth was followed upstairs by five men, who savagely beat and strangled her. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. const flipPayJsUrl = 'https://cdn.flip-pay.com/clients/inm/flip-pay.js'; He was married and had nine children. 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. South Armagh has long been the IRA stronghold and any defections would be a devastating blow to the leadership. 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. } let bodyAvailable = false; document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "=" + JSON.stringify(cookieData) + ';path=/;domain=' + domain + ';max-age='+cookieExpiryInSeconds; [23] This incident was investigated by the Smithwick Tribunal into alleged collusion between the IRA and the Garda. 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. 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. The single Mk-15 mortar bomb landed 40 yards (37m) short of the perimeter fence. Five men, including one who was described by police in court as the UVF's East Belfast commander, and two women, were later jailed on various charges in connection with her death. [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. observer.disconnect(); [26], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the IRA elsewhere in Northern Ireland found that nine out of ten planned operations were aborted. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. 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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. vars.article.wallVisible = ! } return { 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;. 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. const selectedRegional = localStorage.getItem('selectedRegionals'); 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. Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for. 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. })(); Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. 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. He had just left Drumadd Barracks and was on his way to nearby. South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.finish_at, Bandit Country. "The last armoured patrol in South Armagh, attacked in Crossmaglen October 1975 killing Cpl Gleeson. The truck bombs were sent to England by ferry. [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. subscriptionStatus: 'Corporate', 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 . const onMutation = function (mutations) { He had left the UDR the year before. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium') > -1) { return { vars.article.userWall = ! if (vars.article.wallType === 'registration') { } } enable_showcase: true, [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. 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. 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. The fierceness of the republicanism expressed by people like the local historians I spoke to is unsettling. childList: true, for (let i = 0, parts; (parts = cookies[i] && cookies[i].split('=')); i++) { In 1975 and 1976, as sectarian violence increased in Northern Ireland, the South Armagh Republican Action Force, allegedly a cover-name for the South Armagh Brigade, carried out two attacks against Protestants. 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. He was eventually killed during an attack on the RUC barracks in Keady in November 1973. return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.finish_at, } subscriptionStatus: 'Whitelist', 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. 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'; subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', vars.article.wallVisible = ! The man is a close associate of the Provos' border boss Thomas 'Slab' Murphy (pictured), Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. vars.article.wallVisible = 'false'; The new Irish Sea Border: What does it mean? 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