26 October Joseph Wilson, a 53-year-old part-time member of the UDR is shot dead by a Provisional IRA gunman in the supermarket he worked at in the nationalist Shambles area of the city. He was later acquitted of any charges, but he eventually agreed in 2006 to pay 500,000 for cross-border smuggling. 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. vars.article.userWall = ! [25], South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. 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. let bodyAvailable = false; 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. 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. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.sku_code, By the end of the 1970s, the IRA in most of Northern Ireland had been restructured into a cell system. const cookieExpiryInSeconds = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30; 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. The unveiling involved a large republican parade which failed to comply with the procedures of the Parades Commission. [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. [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. let cookieValue = parts.join('='); } [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': 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'. Says It Killed Tory M.P. Bandit Country. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. "Orde visit seen as farewell to Army", by Phillp Bradfield. $312,000 (2022) Assessed Value. At that moment, a gun battle was taking place on the ground between British soldiers and members of the South Armagh Brigade. An IRA unit had taken over a house in Ogle Street and waited until the RUC foot patrol came into range of the 5 lb device. 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. The dead man was from Knockamell Park in Armagh city. 24 March William Elliott, a-52-year old Protestant civilian from Ashley Gardens in the city is shot dead by the Provisional IRA in the village of, 15 August Norman Kerr, a 28-year-old Protestant from, 22 August The UVF's Glenanne Gang launched a gun and bomb attack on McGleenan's Bar on Upper English Street in the Shambles area of the city. script.type = 'text/javascript'; It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA active service unit on armed operations. if (element.tagName === 'BODY' && ! 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. 24 February - Anne Marie Smyth, a 26-year-old Catholic mother of two from the Longstone estate in Armagh is murdered in east Belfast by the UVF after she attended what was meant to be a party in a loyalist area. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. show_spinner: false, bodyAvailable) { const eventType = event.detail.event_type; 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. const updateSubscriberCookie = function (purchase) { 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. His brother Michael Caraher, who was severely wounded in the shooting, later became the commander of one of the South Armagh sniper squads. 27 November 34-year-old former RUC member John Martin is shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his filling station on the Mall. }); listenForFlipPayEvents(); 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'. His body was recovered in Crossmaglen in south Armagh. A . 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'false' : 'true'; 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. subscriptionStartDate: '', 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. if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { 1,168 Following. 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. } He was married and had nine children. Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for. return { PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The culmination of Harnden's work in Northern Ireland was the publication of Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (Hodder & Stoughton 1999), which sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide and is considered essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the Irish Troubles. 27 August 1992 - An unsuccessful attack was launched by a sniper on a British Army patrol at Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { const flipPayJsUrl = 'https://cdn.flip-pay.com/clients/inm/flip-pay.js'; if (flipPayJsUrl) { A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. window.loadGTM(); [13] Another noted IRA commander at that time was the commanding officer of the first battalion, Captain Michael McVerry. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; It exploded as they ran to a getaway car, causing the building to collapse. 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. userID: purchase.granted_by_purchase.user_id, 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. [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. Although the British army has tried to block the region's 370-mile border with Ireland,. if (!! var p = purchase['granted_by_' + purchaseType]; "The fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead. A further 75 civilians were killed in the area during the conflict,[6] as well as ten South Armagh Brigade members. const getBundleValue = function (purchase, purchaseType) { } By the 1990s, the South Armagh Brigade was thought to consist of about 40 members,[1] roughly half of them living south of the border. [15] In response, the British government stated that it was dispatching the Special Air Service (SAS) to South Armagh, although the SAS had been present in the area for many years. const element = mutation.target; The new Irish Sea Border: What does it mean? 29 March 1997 - An RUC officer was badly wounded when he was shot by a sniper outside Forkhill joint security base, County Armagh. Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images "And almost overnight the smugglers of South Armagh, under the control of the IRA, started bulk-buying . subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.original_start_at, subscriptionFinishDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', 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'. In case of an emergency, do not send message, dial 911. console.log('observer.observe failed:', e); 28 March In an identical attack to the one that killed Derek Monteith, 58-year-old RUC member George Starrett is shot dead in the kitchen of his home on the Newry Road by the Provisional IRA. 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. [24] As the divisional commander for South Armagh, Breen was the most senior policeman to have been killed during the Troubles. 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. }; 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. vars.user.subscriptionStatus = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus || ''; 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. } else { 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. [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. return; This page was last edited on 13 July 2022, at 18:49. return { 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. } [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. } userID: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.user_id, window.showSubscriberElements) { Michael McKevitt and his wife Bernadette were evicted from their home near Dundalk. vars.article.wallVisible = ! [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. 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. 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 (. 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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. 8 November Adrian Carroll, a 24-year-old. 'none' : 'registration'; A British border patrol searches a lorry in 1969. subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', if (vars.article) { 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. Fri 19 Mar 1999 23.07 EST. Stock image. [48] Thomas Murphy and the leadership of the IRA in the area have allegedly since re-asserted their control, expelling dissidents from the district under threat of death. 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. The patrol then immediately fled the scene, the police (once informed) took over 4 hours to respond. When there, Ms Smyth was followed upstairs by five men, who savagely beat and strangled her. 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. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. 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. [10], However, the IRA campaign in the area did not begin in earnest until 1971. const gigyaID = getCookie('guid'); return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 }; } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium') > -1) { 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. In March 1989, two senior RUC officers were killed in an ambush near Jonesborough. Hodder & Stoughton. }); !gigyaID ? Earlier in the day two large no-warning car bombs left by the loyalist. [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. She left behind a husband and three children. bundle: bundleValue, McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. Neighborhood North of Turnpike Subdivision Pleasant Park. }; const onMutation = function (mutations) { }; if (cookieValue) { })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KJF4'); South Armagh IRA rocked as 'OC' is outed as a 'tout' - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk "I think we have to remember that in the vast majority of cases, the police and security forces acted with integrity, courage and professionalism." Theresa Villiers Se0samh Well-known member Joined Dec 8, 2011 Messages 15,782 Aug 8, 2016 #2 death or glory said: Watch: Peter Crouch sings the Fields of Athenry with Liverpool fans in Dublin pub, Teachers union claims it was excluded from new pay talks, Jay Blades made chancellor of former university and receives honorary doctorate, Badenoch clashes with MPs over menopause discrimination law, Search teams using every resource they can in hunt for Constance Martens baby. The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. 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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". 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. The OC of the Southern Command is said to be a man living in the Tallaght area of Dublin. Hair tattoos becoming increasingly popular among men in Ireland. In 1986, the British Army erected ten hilltop observation posts in South Armagh. Nine of these were killed in the February 1985 Newry mortar attack. According to author Toby Harnden, the decision was taken shortly after a Saracen armoured vehicle was destroyed by a culvert bomb near Crossmaglen, on 9 October 1975. window.GTMLoaded = true; 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. This led to angry scenes as elected DUP members refused to stand. if (isGrantedBy('app_purchase')) { A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. 16 April 1997 - A group of sixteen undercover SAS members restrained four IRA members, part of one of the two sniper teams which operated in South Armagh and gave them to the RUC, after tracking the IRA men to a farm complex. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'purchase'); } In an area with a population of 23,000, the British Army stationed around 3,000 troops in support of the RUC to contain an unknown number of paramilitaries. One of the men who killed her, long-time UVF member Stephen Manners, was himself shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in 2001 in what is thought to have been an internal hit. Other alleged illegal activities involve fraud through embezzlement of agricultural subsidies and false claims of property loss. 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