return 'home-delivery'; subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.original_start_at, if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { 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 selectedRegional = localStorage.getItem('selectedRegionals'); j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? , South Armagh IRA is killed on active service during an attack on Keady barracks. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, 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. A farm complex by the village of Crossmaglen in South Armagh fell under suspicion and was put under surveillance. He was driving his minibus when a car pulled up beside it and a gunman opened fire on him. vars.user.userID = subscriberCookie.userID || ''; const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. The truck bombs were sent to England by ferry. vars.article.wallVisible = 'false'; 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. [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. 31 July 1993 - A British Army mobile checkpoint was fired at by an IRA sniper at Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. 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. 24 February - Reginald Williamson, a 46-year-old RUC member from Armagh, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explodes under his car near the village of Loughgall. } He had left the UDR the year before. if (vars.article) { '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= [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). bundle: bundleValue, return 'home-delivery'; }; 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. There were no injuries on either side. He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. One USC Constable was killed in this attack and in revenge the USC descended upon Killylea in Armagh and began to burn down Nationalist homes; they also shot and wounded two civilians. 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. 27 November 34-year-old former RUC member John Martin is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his filling station on the Mall. } subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, On 10 th April 1921 the IRA ambushed a USC patrol near Creggan on the Newry- Crossmaglen Road. 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Robinson was a former member of the UDR. } }; 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. if (isGrantedBy('app_purchase')) { His hands had been tied behind his back and his eyes taped closed at Central. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. 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. The customs building itself was later destroyed in an IRA bomb attack in 1986. 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 man is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. They had been for a night out in the, 28 April - Eric Smyth, a 40-year-old ex-member of the UDR, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at the front of his home on Salter's Grange Road, on the outskirts of Armagh. } mutations.forEach((mutation) => { Sources say that shortly before they were captured the team was given orders by the man not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. return; When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. return cookieData; The County of Orange closed the application period for the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Program on April 30, 2021. // Regionals Container To republicans, it is 'God's Country', the only area in the six counties where the occupiers have successfully been resisted. Let the message from south Armagh ring loud and clear to the occupation forces. Harnden, Toby (1999). Rory Finnis, 21, from Derry, who was found dead in June 1991. 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. 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. From that point on the south Armagh OC and his associates became millionaires while continuing to donate a reputed 25% of their earnings to the IRA. } const eventType = event.detail.event_type; "Orde visit seen as farewell to Army", by Phillp Bradfield. A further 75 civilians were killed in the area during the conflict,[6] as well as ten South Armagh Brigade members. He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.sku_code, document.head.append(script); He along with another man were apparently intending to break into the supermarket when Harker was shot by members of a UDR patrol. window.loadGTM(); This was the last action of the IRA Armagh Sniper teams. const grantedBy = Object.keys(purchase).filter(function (key) { One gunman opened fire while another planted the bomb. 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. Burrows came from Ballinahone Avenue in the city. 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. The OC of the Southern Command is said to be a man living in the Tallaght area of Dublin. 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. } 3 March Herbert Burrows, a 37-year-old Protestant civilian, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb which was attached to a door at his Alexander Road funeral parlour exploded, killing him instantly. if (window.GTMLoaded === true) { return 'epaper-access'; new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. } The UDR member who fired the fatal shot was later brought to court on manslaughter charges but was found not guilty in the non-jury trial. A number of South Armagh IRA members were imprisoned by the end of the 1970s and took part in the blanket protest and dirty protest in pursuit of political status for IRA prisoners. 15.5K Followers. He was eventually killed during an attack on the RUC barracks in Keady in November 1973. })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KJF4'); The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. Raymond McCreesh, a South Armagh man, was among the ten republican hunger strikers who died for this goal in the 1981 hunger strike. 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. The fierceness of the republicanism expressed by people like the local historians I spoke to is unsettling. Most of the South Armagh IRA stayed within the Provisional movement, but there were reports of the brigade aiding the dissidents in different actions before the signing of the agreement, among them the bombings of Moira and Portadown, and mortar attacks on a security base at Forkhill and a watchtower at Glassdrumman. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . [7] The RUC recorded 1,255 bombings and 1,158 shootings around a radius of ten miles from the geographic centre of South Armagh in the same period. 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. [38] The only successful IRA attack against an Army helicopter outside South Armagh was carried out by the East Tyrone Brigade near Clogher, County Tyrone, on 11 February 1990. The South Armagh Brigade retaliated for the deaths of the hunger strikers by killing five British soldiers with a mine that destroyed their armoured vehicle near Bessbrook. Elliott was press officer for the Armagh branch of the. [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. ", Sinn Fein ministers McGuinness and Murphy in illegal parade, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provisional_IRA_South_Armagh_Brigade&oldid=1098002029. $553 (2019) Beds. return { enable_showcase: true, Official information from Orange County Fire Rescue's Public Information Office. if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_monthly') > -1) { [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. return { Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, Please check your inbox to verify your details, Senior Tory begrudgingly backs Sunaks bitter pill Brexit deal as DUP split over support, Two further arrests over shooting of detective in Northern Ireland, DCI John Caldwell: Two further arrests made in attempted murder investigation, Belfast man jailed for crossbow attack over drink-and-drug debt, NI gambling addicts who swindled employers out of 170k spared jail, Time is of the essence to restore Stormont and seize opportunities McDonald, Mid Ulster eco home on offer to family rent-free for one year, Omagh sex offender faces new charges as alleged victims increase from three to 38, Meet the NI student whose business could help millions who suffer from skin conditions, National Fish and Chip Awards: Belfasts Fish City wins top accolade, 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. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. [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. 25 July 1994 - A British soldier was shot and wounded by the IRA in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. 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. In 2014, an article appeared in the Sinn Fin newspaper, 17 December The Officer Commanding (OC) of the Armagh city Provisional IRA, 33-year-old Sean McIlvenna, is killed by the RUC in, 17 February Catholic prison officer Patrick Kerr is shot dead by the Provisional IRA on his 37th birthday as he left 10.30 a.m Mass with his children at, 21 February 30-year-old Catholic RUC member Frank Murphy is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at the gates of Drumsallen Primary School on the Battleford Road just outside Armagh city. [12] IRA volunteer amon McGuire, a former Aer Lingus senior engineer, and his team claim that they were responsible for getting the British Army "off the ground and into the air" in South Armagh. 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. window.GTMLoaded = false; 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. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. 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. He was finishing work building garages at the back of the Housing Executive offices on Dobbin Street when the gunman struck. $312,000 (2022) Assessed Value. This page was last edited on 13 July 2022, at 18:49. According to the victim's sister-in-law, who was present at the time of the incident, two masked men entered demanding money and fired two shots into the ceiling when Corrigan refused to hand over any cash. document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "=" + JSON.stringify(cookieData) + ';path=/;domain=' + domain + ';max-age='+cookieExpiryInSeconds; [13] Another noted IRA commander at that time was the commanding officer of the first battalion, Captain Michael McVerry. 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 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. Overall, the South Armagh Sniper operation carried out by the IRA was one of the most successful operations of that era of the troubles. item_group_code: "pfc_indo", if (isGrantedBy('purchase')) { return; In a statement released by the IRA at the time they denied any role in it. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. }; vars.article.userWall = ! 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. 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[1] Over the course of the Troubles, although mainly concentrated in the years from 1969 until 1994, the small city of around 15,000 people, including some outlying areas, saw 86 deaths, including those of a number of people from the city who lost their lives elsewhere in Troubles-related incidents.[2]. } Fri 19 Mar 1999 23.07 EST. Many men in the area served in the Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (191921) and, unlike most of the rest of the Northern Ireland IRA, on the republican side in the Irish Civil War (192223). Orange County; Winter Garden; Seminole Street; 537 Seminole Street Winter Garden, FL 34787. } Media. 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. His killing happened one day before his 30th birthday. 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 . [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. He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. The south Armagh IRA even discovered ground not covered by the watchtowers for sniper attacks in the 1990s. Toby Harnden has interviewed members . } He was married and had nine children. try { After that a struggle ensued in which Corrigan was shot at point-blank range in the head. for (let i = 0, parts; (parts = cookies[i] && cookies[i].split('=')); i++) { observer.observe(document, { 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. 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. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. But the snipers also lost a number of their most skilled members, such as Mchel Caraher, who were arrested and imprisoned just weeks before the second ceasefire. } 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. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. 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