Fergal Caraher - South Armagh Memorial Garden", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_members_of_the_Irish_Republican_Army&oldid=1124343283, This page was last edited on 28 November 2022, at 12:46. The Town That Loves the IRA So Well The Northern Ireland Troubles. Liam Tunney, "One Priest's Vision to Bring the Zoo to a County Derry Village." Derry Now, January 8, 2021. A former Scottish police officer turned MI5 spy has inflicted major damage on the New IRA leading to the arrests of alleged key figures and the disruption of links between violent dissident republicans and terrorist groups in the Middle East. One security source in Belfast told the Guardian that McFadden had been an MI5 agent for more than two decades, initially infiltrating Sinn Fin and then, on orders from his handlers, making contact with violent republican dissidents shortly after the New IRA was founded in 2012. The 1992 movie details the kidnap of a Black British soldier, Jody (played by Forrest Whitaker), by members of the Provisional IRA, including volunteer Fergus (Stephen Rea). Lyra McKee was covering riots in Londonderry when she was shot dead Sky News reporter In January it carried out a car bomb attack outside the courthouse in Derry. What is the New IRA, how did the dissident republican group form and how is it different to other iterations of the IRA? Surely the murders of Judge Conaghan and Mr. McBirney must bring home to us the fact that our country has now reached a state where it can afford only one division, the distinction between those who believe in such deeds and those who do not. It is broken down in sub-lists of various organisations known as the IRA. . The IRA have revealed for the first time why they shot dead one of Ireland's most notorious criminals, The General, Martin Cahill. Masked nationalist rioters launch petrol bombs at PSNI vehicles in Derry. This was the era of The Cold War and spies and The Berlin Wall. The IRA movement could not tolerate a situation where its would-be teenage volunteers whom it required to fight its cause would be brainwashed and diverted from the true IRA struggle by foreign notions of pacifism. READ MORE:Loyalist paramilitaries have no official policy on Troubles pension. G Bill Gannon George Gilmore To embed this post, copy the code below on your site, 600px wide The latter was involved in many gun and bomb attacks, but it is believed not to have claimed lives. As soon as it became possible to vote for those virile IRA persons who had made their contribution to the IRAs campaign of mass murder of civilians without even counting the number of police or soldiers murdered Derry people gave a handsome electoral reward to the men and women of murder, largely dumping the impotent and pacifist SDLP party that had operated without guns, bombs or murder Thanks for everything, John, but no thanks.. The nine suspected New IRA figures charged with directing terrorism are Kevin Barry Murphy,50, Davy Jordan, 49, Damien McLaughlin, 44, Gary Hayden, 48, Joe Barr, 44, Shea Reynolds , 26, Paddy McDaid, 50, Sharon Jordan, 45, and Mandy Duffy, 49. , 300px wide . In January last year Oglaigh na hireann said it was suspending all armed actions against the British state with immediate effect. The Real IRA was formed in 1997 by disaffected members of the Provisional IRA.Since July 2012, when Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) and other small republican groups merged with it, the group has been called the . A new video marking the anniversary will also be launched at the event. Members of Republican Sinn Fin stand on Dublins OConnell Street during their Easter Rising commemoration on Monday. New IRA boss Thomas Mellon demanded three nights of hijackings in Derry city in response to the arrest of a teenager who is close to one of his lieutenants. His sister Sinead had refused to go to bed and was in the living room with him when the bomb went off. With the outbreak of the Troubles, the three found themselves among the most senior IRA members in Derry. The Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire in 1997 and formally ended its armed campaign in July 2005, although security assessments in 2015 and 2020 revealed it still existed. The New IRA strategy is becoming clear it is focused on PSNI officers. February 23, 2023: Police patrol at the . The New IRA has admitted one of its members was responsible for killing journalist Lyra McKee (29) who was shot dead on April 18, 2019 while watching a riot in the Creggan area of Derry. The PSNI alleged then that it was an orchestrated attack by the New IRA. In January 2019, police blamed the New IRA after a bomb placed in a van exploded outside the courthouse in Derry. Its effectiveness was severely curtailed when its leader and long-standing republican Seamus McGrane was arrested in 2015, three years later receiving an 11-year prison sentence at the Dublin Special Criminal Court for directing terrorism. Thomas Ashe Mellon and Fergal Melaugh were. The three IRA members were working on an incendiary device at McCools home at Dunree Gardens in the Creggan in June 1970 when it exploded prematurely. MI5 got McFadden out of Northern Ireland shortly before the arrests of the nine suspected New IRA figures in August. Gerry Moriarty is the former Northern editor of The Irish Times, Bemusement among those opposed to Brexit as Sunak hails prize for Northern Ireland in his deal with EU, Peace Proms return with strong message on harmony and inclusivity, What is the DUP up to now? While security forces have been lucky more than once in catching the terrorist group before the commission of a terrorist act, all it takes is one operation to get through. It then grew into the New IRA although there are small pockets of the Real IRA that did not merge with the new group. RHC members later assassinated Elliott for killing her. Sunak offers Invest NI cover to fully sell protocol benefits, Yungblud: I want people to be able to feel safe, feel themselves and feel free, Slowthai delivers a deeply personal and conflicted opus on UGLY, Brian Feeney: DUP have been cast adrift again, Deagln de Bradn: 1916 Rising is at the heart of republican psychology, On this day in 2015: Jose Mourinho leads Chelsea to League Cup win over Spurs, Pep Guardiola hails flabbergasting' Phil Foden after FA Cup double. There is an old saying often touted at police officers in the North and garda in the South: that IRA activists only need to be lucky once. There are accusations of other informers in their ranks now. The 1970 deaths are normally marked through Derry Sinn Fin's annual commemoration for all IRA members killed in the Troubles. Priests in Northern Ireland have long been intimately intwined with local Catholic communities, well beyond providing Church services. A few months later I was in the car with Dennis McFadden and I showed him the pics of Donaldsons cottage. Derry people gave the impression for many years of believing in John Humes creed that no political aim was worth a single drop of blood or a single human life, but that was just another lie. Despite previous warnings he continued to work for the UDR, and that was the reason he was targeted.". "invaded the platform and took over the meeting" Today, SDU detectives will be chatting to contacts and visiting suspected New IRA members at their homes, while analysts will be going up on phones to listen and monitor dissident activities. 26 June 1970: three members and two young girls (the daughters of one of the volunteers) were killed when an IRA bomb prematurely exploded in a house in Creggan, Derry. Police in the North arrested four men last August in connection with an ongoing investigation into activities of the New IRA. The difference between Unionist and Nationalist pales into insignificance when one is faced with this kind of savagery where a man is sent to his death at breakfast by a teenage gunman. The New IRAs power base is generally believed to be in the Creggan area of Derry, where Lyra McKee was murdered, but it reaches further than that and goes out into communities across North and South of the border. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography There are around 600 files in the Battalion and Company Rolls series. It wants to see a united Ireland and an end to British rule in Northern Ireland, vowing to continue the armed struggle until those aims are achieved. The Journal supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press A typed statement has appeared on a wall in Derry signed by 'T O'Neill', a name used by the . 12 August 1969 Battle of the Bogside (Derry) The Orange Apprentice Boys of Londonderry hold a parade. IRA Murders of Human Rights Lawyers & Judges, Brian Feeney Is Dead & Coffee with the IRA, Legacy, the IRA and Victims Part II & Quiz. In 1998, former IRA member Sean O'Callaghan told the High Court that he attended an IRA Revolutionary Council meeting back in 1983, and that Adams was present, along with Thomas "Slab" Murphy, Pat Doherty and Martin McGuinness. For someone who had been raised in Rosemount in Derry, he earned a lot of local antagonism for his comment. 23 May 1994: the IRA used a motor boat stolen from Foyle Search and Rescue Service to cross. His 13-year-old brother, Kieran also survived. Having had the opportunity to speak to thousands of students around Europe in recent years, I find many that many of them can recall Derry/Londonderry as the site of one of the IRAs most infamous attacks the Human Bomb attack involving Patsy Gillespie who was chained to a car bomb and ordered to drive it to an army checkpoint where Derry IRA volunteers including a member of a well-known republican family set off the bomb by remote control, blowing Patsy Gillespie and a number of British soldiers to fragments. The first use of IRA dates back to the 1919-21 Irish War of Independence. These allegedly included the bombing of US troops at Shannon Airport to find favour with Middle East terrorist groups. Security forces have said there has been intelligence circulating that the group was moving to a more aggressive targeting of security forces. News agency the Press Association explains that the New IRA is the biggest of the dissident republican groups operating in Northern Ireland. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own Over 5,000 readers like you already have stepped up. I met Donegal businessmen in Letterkenny and Falcarragh who had earlier been requested to collect monies to pay for the weapons they later gave me a left-over 500 to be brought into Derry to pay for IRA activities Pat Dawson of Letterkenny and Paddy Kelly of Falcarragh, ever aided by Neil Blaneys brother Harry. The second vehicle in the patrol was completely destroyed. In November 2012, prison officer David Black, 52, was gunned down while driving to work at Maghaberry high-security jail. Indeed, RUC officers were responsible for beating Sammy Devenny to death in Derry in 1969 following a civil rights protest - a time when the IRA was in semi-retirement (it was a ramshackle . McGuinness got Frankie back to Derry, then to Buncrana in Donegal, then to interrogation and torture leading to his murder on the border. There have been a number of other organisations that have used the IRA name, often prompted by ideological differences and groups splintering off. Fri 8:20 AM. Kieran Conway Credible Witness at the Birmingham Pub Bombings Inquest? Police lasered in on the New IRA after an off-duty police officer was shot in Northern Ireland. Bemused Dubliners looked on at the spectacle of the mismatched and poorly drilled marchers stomping their way up the countrys main street. THE family of former IRA man Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt say they have "cut all ties" with the republican movement following a row over adding his name to a 'Roll of Honour' in Derry. Keeping pace with the marchers and standing at the GPO were old former Provisional IRA men. Open Letter to Professor Peter Finn, St. Marys University College, re Hosting the Hypocritical Pat Finucane Annual Lecture, Sinn Fins new Ethel Lynch Cumann in Derry and the Cult of Lies. In 2021, a bomb was placed near the car of a female police officer in what police said was an attempt to kill her and her child, linked to the New IRA. The full name for the New IRA is the New Irish Republican Army - although its members describe it as simply the Irish Republican Army. posts, comments and submissions available. He bled to death after one of the shots severed an artery. The New IRA admitted responsibility for the murder of journalist Lyra McKee, 29, who was shot in the head as she covered rioting on the Creggan estate in Derry in 2019. Photograph:Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images. It claims members of the group carried. Derry, County Londonderry and West County Fermanagh. Henry Hensey McKenna, can be seen in the picture below, grey hair, behind the forward gunman at Jim Lynagh's funeral in 1987 as it passed through Emyvale . 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