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.. [110] The RUC claim that the machine gun stolen in Coalisland and other arms were recovered from a farmhouse near Cappagh on 29 May 1992. Five Sinn Fin cumainn, and 90% of the East Tyrone Brigade, left in the move. [130] The latter attack led to loyalist allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh[131] in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region, to the point that they drew an analogy with contemporaneous ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. [147], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. Although logically it makes more sense for Sinn Fin to start an armed campaign, that is not going to happen no chance, he says. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. IRA volunteers had been lying in wait outside the barracks and, as the officers left, two gunmen stepped out of concealed positions and shot both officers in the head from close range. [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. Neither republican sees a great prospect of a united Ireland after Brexit. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. 8 July 1997: A landmine was planted by the IRA near Dungannon, leading to a bomb alert. An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. The genie is out of the bottle, so you are not going to put it back in again, and at this point in time we are in the uneasy calm before the potential storm. [19][unreliable source? It is going to be very embarrassing for a lot of Irish political parties that almost pretended that partition was going. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. I dont mean that in terms of violence. 26 January 1987: a senior UDR officer was killed outside his home on Coalisland Road, Dungannon. IRA veterans Brexit feature - pix Gerry McGeough Former Provisional IRA volunteer Gerry McGeough, who served time in prison for the attempted murder of a UDR man in 1981, on his farm near Dungannon, Co Tyrone. 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I know from the old days there were very few people willing to do the business of fighting. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". The ambush that left Tyrone Volunteers Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Patrick Vincent, Sen O'Farrell and Peter . [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. McGeough points to the "huge statement" last week by David Davis, the UK's Brexit secretary formally, secretary of state for exiting the European Union who said that Northern Ireland would not have to reapply for EU membership as a new state if it voted for reunification with the Republic. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. These are among the surprising views expressed by a number of former hard men of republicanism, interviewed by The Irish Times for their unique insights into the thorny issues of Brexit and Northern Irelands future. 2 May 1974: Up to 40 members from the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade attacked the isolated 6 UDR Deanery base in Clogher, County Tyrone with machine gun and RPG fire resulting in the death of Private Eva Martin, a UDR Greenfinch, the first female UDR soldier to be killed by enemy action. ], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. Toggle navigation. 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. Interviewees suggest the vast countryside made rural IRA units particularly dangerous. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. I think its all guff.. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. 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. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during its campaign. [107] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. May has said that the British do not want a return to the Border of old. Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. Patrick Vincent was gunned down in the cab of the lorry whilst Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Peter Clancy where gunned down just outside. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the . [105], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. I just mean in terms of chaos and upheaval political, economic and otherwise.. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. [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. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. On 3 September 2012 prominent Real IRA member Alan Ryan was shot dead in Dublin. No efforts were made to conceal the firing position or the machine gun. According to them, a second 264 pounds (120kg) device was defused in the follow-up operation. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. Another brother, Kevin, and Tommy's uncle John, neither of whom was in the IRA, were killed by loyalist paramilitaries from the Ulster Volunteer Force in an attack on the family's butcher's shop, in Moy, in January 1992. The Tyrone republican believes that Sinn Fin is wrong to propose a special status for Northern Ireland within the European Union. 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. [123] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[124] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. Certainly, I think we can rule out the idea of a hard Border with British troops on the Border. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. We are faced with the possibility of two foreign powers implementing the partition of Ireland, and where is the demand in Ireland to say, What gives you the power to do this? , McKearney adds, It is economic imperialism we are dealing with, as opposed to the imperialism that was so raw and so in our face under British imperialism. A five-mile (8km) chase followed before the IRA volunteers managed to escape on foot. GAA Central Council officialreply was that The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. The Association is committed to a shared future based on tolerance for the different identities and cultural backgrounds of people who share this Community and this island. [15], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. Maybe a lot of huff and puff but nothing is going to get blown down.. [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. An Phoblacht claimed the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. 25 Feb/23. [92], An explosive device fired at the RUC barracks in Dungannon on 9 July 1993, that according to the IRA was a Mark-15 mortar bomb,[85] prompted the evacuation of a nearby housing state. 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. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. This is not a land of milk and honey under the European Union. It was the biggest single loss of life for the republican movement during the conflict. O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. east tyrone brigade members. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. It is of his great-grandfather Henry McGeough, a member of the Ribbonmen, the 19th-century society of often violent Catholic rebels. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. For younger. G. Adams (SF) has written to the Prime Minister asking for new political contact. They were active in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the Troubles, and for three of them much of that activity took place along the Border. The device landed unexploded inside the complex, resulting in its evacuation. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. The air of foreboding he once sensed when crossing the river into the North doesnt exist today because the Border is imperceptible, he says. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. The group were also responsible for the . [92] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. In 1987, an East Tyrone IRA unit was ambushed and eight of its members killed by the SAS while bombing an RUC base at Loughgall, County Armagh. He was sentenced to 20 years in 2011 but was released after two years, under the Belfast Agreement. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. There is very, very little appetite among republican circles in the North for a resumption of any armed campaign. He has vivid childhood memories of seeing the Moy Bridge and the road to his grandmothers home in Monaghan lying in the Blackwater River after being blown up the night before by B Specials members of the Ulster Special Constabulary quasi-military reserve. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. [42] Whereas the previous ambushes of IRA men had been well planned by Special Forces, the Clonoe killings owed much to a series of mistakes by the IRA men in question. [91][84], On 6 June 1993, an IRA unit converted a stolen van in a "mobile mortar launcher" in the area of Pomeroy and slipped through British forces' surveillance to the RUC barracks at Carrickmore. [53][54], Another IRA bomb attack against British troops, near Cappagh, during which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. There is very, very little appetite among republican circles in the North for a resumption of any armed campaign. [49], On 3 June 1991, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Michael "Pete" Ryan, and Tony Doris, died in another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was riddled with gunfire. 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. 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[17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. 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. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. Five of them were bound over. [78], On 30 March 1993, one of the brigade units claimed they thwarted a British undercover operation by detonating an explosive device in the Glen, between Loughmacrory and Mountfield, near the spot where the British personnel were hidden. [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. According to them, the explosion was heard from Augher to Fivemiletown, and there was a number of British casualties. [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]. [120] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". Now he has a doctorate in political science and writes a lively blog, the Pensive Quill, firing off opinions on the peace process, among other topics, and offering a platform to others. () The Association is committed to a shared future based on tolerance for the different identities and cultural backgrounds of people who share this Community and this island. The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. 7 December 1985: during an attack on the RUC barracks in Ballygawley, the IRA killed two RUC officers (Reserve Constable William Clements and Constable George Gilliland) and destroyed the barracks with a large bomb. From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared East Tyrone Brigade was a shadow of its former self. The Irish . They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. The loyalist gang operating in east Tyrone at the time used several weapons between 1988 to 1994, including R18837. [88][89], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. (2000). [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. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. [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. See: 11 December 1985: the East Tyrone Brigade claimed responsibility for mortaring Tynan RUC base, County Armagh in which four RUC officers were injured and the base badly damaged. 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. This was the last action by the Brigade before. Lynagh's strategy was to start off with one area which the British military did not control, preferably a republican stronghold such as east Tyrone. The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. G Bill Gannon George Gilmore H Sean Hales Tom Hales Sen Hogan Charlie Hurley K [114], Three active members of the security forces were killed by the East Tyrone Brigade during this period. 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. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. East Tyrone appears an outlier in rural areas by the 1990s. 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. Photographs: Simon Carswell. [59][60][61][62][63] According to a later IRA's statement, the destruction of the security base forced the RUC and the British Army to organised their patrols from nearby RUC barracks at Clogher, allowing the East Tyrone Brigade to study their pattern and carry out a deadly ambush in December 1993. Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. One British soldier was wounded. [82][86], A brigade statement claims that late on the evening of 26 April 1993, a "variation" of the Mark-15 was fired at a British Army position on an open field near the river Fury, a few miles east of Clogher. G Bill Gannon George Gilmore 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. 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. The Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA, or rIRA) was a republican militant group that operated during and after the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. Two more McKearney brothers died in the Troubles. CAIN Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1997 UTV News, 9 July 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provisional_IRA_East_Tyrone_Brigade&oldid=1137091264, Provisional Irish Republican Army Brigades, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking reliable references from October 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 14 September 1971: a British soldier (John Rudman, aged 21) was shot dead while on mobile patrol, Edendork, near. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads, near Cookstown. 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. On these two occasions the stations were destroyed, and, in the first case, two of the occupants killed. [20][21] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. But the reality is that it is going to be more and more obvious, Lynagh says. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. One RUC officer was injured. 5 July 1997: An IRA volunteer shot and seriously wounded an RUC female officer in the town of Coalisland during an attack on an armoured vehicle beside the Army/RUC base. The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. 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. 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. [44] Some republican sources[45] claim that a listening device was found in the roof of OFarrells house during repairs in 2008, exposing that the British intelligence had a forehand knowledge of the IRA operation at Coalisland and could have arrested them before the attack. 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. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. But somebody not being able to smuggle is not what revolutions are made out of. In initial papers filed last week both the British prime minister, Theresa May, and the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, referred to their desire to protect the peace process. [28] On 16 September 1989, a British sergeant of the Royal Corps of Signals (Kevin Froggett) was shot and killed by an IRA sniper while he was repairing a radio mast at Coalisland Army/RUC base. British troops manning the outpost returned fire. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. Brexit may prove a catalyst for a much earlier withdrawal, he says, as he knows Protestants who are soft Irish nationalists and farmers who do not want to lose EU subsidies. The New IRA claimed responsibility for a potentially lethal bomb discovered under the car of a police officer at a golf club in east Belfast in June 2019. As for the warnings made by diplomats, bureaucrats and Eurocrats about the threats to the peace process from Brexit, McIntyre says it is similar to Sinn Fins use of the peace process to expand its political influence, where the process must always undermine the peace. McGeough is a supporter of the peace process and now president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Co Tyrone. Somebody who might find it difficult to smuggle because of a Border post might go out and shoot a Border-post official? [103] On 27 May 1994, the British Army checkpoint at Aughnacloy was the target of an attack once again, when the compound came under automatic fire from an improvised tactical vehicle consisting of a Ford Transit van mounting a concealed heavy machine gun. 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. 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. 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. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. Two RUC officers were shot dead and the base was raked with gunfire before being destroyed by a bomb. But these four veterans of the Provisional IRAs armed campaign, who are all now critics of Sinn Fin policy, do not think that Brexit will derail the peace process. [5] The first was an assault on Ballygawley barracks. I dont see any bloodshed coming from our side. I dont see it has changed any bit since then, he says. 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. Leading `Real IRA' member is shot dead in Ballymurphy. He was arrested on the night of the count by the PSNI for the attempted murder of a part-time UDR soldier in 1981. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. Photograph: Simon Carswell Taken: March 31st, 2017. He would be the longest-serving volunteer in this position, right up to the 1997 ceasefire.[148]. 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