Harnden was held to be in contempt of the Bloody Sunday tribunal for . In one such ambush in August 1972, a Ferret armoured car was destroyed by a 600lb landmine, killing one soldier. [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. The IRA wrongly claimed that he was a serving member of the, 18 May Gavin McShane (17) and Shane McArdle (17), both Catholic civilians, were shot dead by the, 21 May Reginald McCollum (19), an off-duty member of the, This page was last edited on 25 October 2022, at 17:26. } $69,194 (2019) Property Taxes. South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. script.async = true; He was later acquitted of any charges, but he eventually agreed in 2006 to pay 500,000 for cross-border smuggling. The board of finance Wednesday voted 4-2 in favor of using $300,000 in funding to repair the Grange Pool.Repairs to the nearly 60-year-old pool have been estimated between $300,000 to $350,000. 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'. Three British soldiers and a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) member were wounded. 8 November Adrian Carroll, a 24-year-old. bundle: bundleValue, PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, 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. Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for. On 7 August of that year, Harry Thornton, a 29-year-old sewage worker from South Armagh was shot and killed by the British Army while staying in a car outside Springfield Road base in Belfast, he and his coworker Arthur Murphy having been mistaken for gunmen. } 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. vars.article.wallVisible = ! } In case of an emergency, do not send message, dial 911. He had left the UDR the year before. subscriptionFinishDate: '', Dates in bold indicate a death by a sniper. [51][52], Since the army wind-down in 2007, security in the area is the sole responsibility of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The gunmen then escaped in a Ford Cortina which was found abandoned a short time later in the Windmill Hill area of the city. In 1986, the British Army erected ten hilltop observation posts in South Armagh. Martin was from Knockamell Park in the city and was a neighbour of Charles Spence, who was had been shot dead by the IRA two weeks previously. He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. if (vars.article.wallType === 'registration') { for (let i = 0, parts; (parts = cookies[i] && cookies[i].split('=')); i++) { } catch (e) { 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. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; [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. Men from the area also took part in IRA campaigns in the 1940 and 1950s. const script = document.createElement('script'); The incident caused outrage among South Armagh residents, provided the IRA with many new recruits and created a hostile climate where local people were prepared to tolerate the killing of security force members. Since then the security forces travel by helicopter for security reasons.". return 'home-delivery'; const domain = '.independent.ie'; 27 November 34-year-old former RUC member John Martin is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his filling station on the Mall. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . } He had left the RUC 15 years previously and the police rejected an IRA claim that he had been identified as a UDR member who had taken part in recent house searches in the city. 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. 20 December Austin Smith, a 44-year-old Catholic member of the UDR, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA as he returned to his home on the Windmill estate in a heavily nationalist part of the city. }; 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. if (eventType === 'access_resolved' || eventType === 'access_resolved ') { 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', the ruling body which effectively ran the organisation from the early 1980s. He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. window.dataLayer.push(vars); vars.article.wallVisible = ! The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan were returning from a meeting with the Garda Sochna in the Republic of Ireland, where they had been discussing a range of issues including ways of combating IRA attacks on the cross-border rail link, when they were ambushed. 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The OC of the Southern Command is said to be a man living in the Tallaght area of Dublin. ","isAccessibleForFree":"True","isPartOf":{"@type":["CreativeWork","Product"],"name":"Independent.ie","productID":"independent.ie:showcase"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Independent.ie","item":"https://m.independent.ie/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Irish News","item":"https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/"}]} 29 March 1997 - An RUC officer was badly wounded when he was shot by a sniper outside Forkhill joint security base, County Armagh. const selectedRegional = localStorage.getItem('selectedRegionals'); return; The men were taken out of their minibus and then . }; A British border patrol searches a lorry in 1969. }).map(function (key) { subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.sku_code, Murphy was lightly wounded and arrested by the RUC. There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. Forkhill or Forkill (from Irish: Foirceal) is a small village and civil parish in south County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in the ancient barony of Upper Orior. [56][57] Some sources claim that the smuggling activities not only made the South Armagh brigade self-sustained, but also provided financial support to most of the IRA operations around Northern Ireland. @OCFireRescue. 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. The helicopter crashed while taking evasive manoeuvres after being fired at from the east side of Edenappa road. 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. j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? Nine of these were killed in the February 1985 Newry mortar attack. There were no injuries on either side. 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. The new Irish Sea Border: What does it mean? 30 July Martin Malone, an 18-year-old unarmed Catholic civilian, is shot dead by a UDR patrol in the Callan Street area. 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. On 17 February 1978 the commander of the 2nd Battalion Royal Green Jackets, Lieutenant Colonel Ian Corden-Lloyd, was killed and two other soldiers injured when the Gazelle helicopter he was travelling in was attacked by an IRA unit near Jonesborough. The high power capability of the Barrett rifles posed a significant threat to British security forces and helicopters, forcing both to limit patrols and thus allow the IRA more freedom of movement. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, $312,000 (2022) Assessed Value. The team, which included Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghin O Caolain's brother-in-law, Bernard McGinn from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, were sentenced to lengthy jailed terms but released in 2000 as part of the prisoner amnesty. window.loadGTM = function () { 29 April Thomas McGeary, a 48-year-old Catholic civilian, is killed by a booby-trap bomb planted in his car just outside Armagh city. if (!! Subsequently, the British Army gave up the use of roads to the IRA in South Armagh. 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. Travelling overland in South Armagh eventually became so dangerous that the British Army began using helicopters to transport troops and supply its bases - a practice that had to be continued until the late 1990s. [21] Three months later, a further four RUC officers were killed by a 900 lb roadside bomb at Killean, County Armagh.[22]. SDLP MP, 17 November David Halligan, a 57-year-old UDR member, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA on the Hamiltonsbawn Road on the outskirts of the city. const subscriberCookie = JSON.parse(getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'); [24] As the divisional commander for South Armagh, Breen was the most senior policeman to have been killed during the Troubles. vars.article.userWall = ! [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. if (element.tagName === 'BODY' && ! Rory Finnis, 21, from Derry, who was found dead in June 1991. [17] Corden-Lloyd's subordinates had been accused of brutality against Catholic civilians in Belfast in 1971. subtree: true, [49] IRA members in South Armagh ceased co-operating with the RIRA after the Omagh bombing. They carried out 23 attacks on British Army helicopters during the Troubles, bringing five down on separate occasions: the Gazelle shot down in February 1978 near Jonesborough,[17] a Lynx in June 1988,[35] a second Lynx in February 1991,. The South Armagh IRA. [45], In 1997, several members of the South Armagh Brigade, based in Jonesborough and Dromintee, following Michael McKevitt, left the Provisional IRA because of its acceptance of the Mitchell Principles of non-violence at a General Army Convention in October of that year and formed a dissident grouping, the Real IRA, which rejected the peace process. He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. observer.disconnect(); The man is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. IN A SHOW OF SOLIDARITY with the McCabe family, republicans from across the country travelled to south Armagh to tell the criminals behind the attack which left Francis McCabe Junior badly injured last week that their activities are a disgrace. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. South Armagh has long been the IRA stronghold and any defections would be a devastating blow to the leadership. } vars.user.subscriptionStartDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStartDate || ''; 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. [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). vars.user.userID = subscriberCookie.userID || ''; [13] Another noted IRA commander at that time was the commanding officer of the first battalion, Captain Michael McVerry. It is within the Ring of Gullion and in the 2011 Census it had a recorded population of 498. 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 dead youth, from the townland of Ballymoran just outside Armagh city, was learning to drive and had offered to put his father's car in the garage when the explosion happened. He is a close associate of the Provos' border boss Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. A Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesman confirmed that an investigation was underway, but also stated that both Sinn Fin Ministers and everyone attending the parade were unaware that "the proper paperwork hadn't been submitted". }; This was the last action of the IRA Armagh Sniper teams. [32] On 22 April 1993, the South Armagh IRA unit took control of the village of Cullaville near the border with the Republic, for two hours, making good use of dead ground. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. if (isGrantedBy('whitelist_rule')) { 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". When there, Ms Smyth was followed upstairs by five men, who savagely beat and strangled her. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; bodyAvailable) { 14 November Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) chairman of Armagh District Council and part-time major in the UDR Charles Armstrong is killed in a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explosion as he sat in his car outside the council's headquarters at the Palace Demense. A farm complex by the village of Crossmaglen in South Armagh fell under suspicion and was put under surveillance. cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookieValue); } meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, premium_content: false, bundle: bundleValue, const cookieData = getSubscriptionStatus(purchase); She had gone to Belfast after spending some of the night drinking in Armagh, and had fallen in with a crowd of loyalist men and women who, realising that she was a Catholic from Armagh, took her to a house on Cregagh Street on the pretense of having a party. He was driving his minibus when a car pulled up beside it and a gunman opened fire on him. 9 March James Hogg, a 23-year-old Protestant civilian and member of the Orange Order, was shot dead in what is thought to have been a sectarian revenge attack by the INLA. One gunman opened fire while another planted the bomb. }); 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 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. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. [28] By 1991, the RUC acknowledged that no mobile patrols had operated in South Armagh without Army support since 1975.[29]. It was one of the few times the SAS didn\u0026#039;t shoot members of an IRA \u0026#039;active service unit\u0026#039; on armed operations. 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