His body was recovered in Crossmaglen in south Armagh. 8 November Adrian Carroll, a 24-year-old. try { vars.article.wallVisible = ! }; // Regionals Container const vars = JSON.parse('{"attributes":{"inmproduct":"amp","virtualview":"false"},"category":{"pageType":"Article","primaryCategory":"Irish News","regionals":"","sectionId":"77","subCategory1":"n\/a","subCategory2":"n\/a","subCategory3":"n\/a","subCategory4":"n\/a"},"page":{"pageName":"In:Irish News:South Armagh IRA rocked as \u0027OC\u0027 is outed as a \u0027tout\u0027","pageTitle":"South Armagh IRA rocked as \u0027OC\u0027 is outed as a \u0027tout\u0027","publication":"Independent.ie"},"user":{"gigyaID":"","subscriptionStatus":"","subscriptionStartDate":"","subscriptionFinishDate":"","userID":""},"article":{"articleID":"34944633","articleType":"News","articleLayout":"standard","author":"Jim Cusack","createdAt":"2016-08-06 22:16:02","modifiedAt":"2016-08-06 22:40:34","publishedAt":"2016-08-07 01:30:00","wallType":"none","wallVisible":"false","relatedContent":{"gallery":0,"news":3,"photos":1,"soundcloud":0,"videos":0},"source":"Sunday Independent","tags":"","topics":""}}' || '{}'); Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. return { He along with another man were apparently intending to break into the supermarket when Harker was shot by members of a UDR patrol. (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': bodyAvailable = true; Says It Killed Tory M.P. 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. })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KJF4'); From that point onwards, the South Armagh \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; and his associates became millionaires while continuing to donate a reputed 25pc of their earnings to the \u0026#039;movement\u0026#039;. ","articleBody":"The second most senior IRA man in South Armagh is being \u0026#039;protected\u0026#039; amid claims that he worked as an agent for British intelligence, according to usually reliable security sources. He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. The owner of the farm was also arrested. His younger brother, a member of the UDR, had lost both legs in an IRA attack on the Mall in 1982. userID: purchase.granted_by_corporate_account.user_id, return 'epaper-access'; return { He was eventually killed during an attack on the RUC barracks in Keady in November 1973. 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. [50], After the Provisional IRA announced its intention to disarm and accept peaceful methods in July 2005, the British government announced a full demilitarisation plan which included the closing of all British Army bases in South Armagh by 2007. The team, which included Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghin O Caolain\u0026#039;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. [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. The man is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. 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: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', Sources say that shortly before they were captured, the team was given orders by the 'OC' not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. 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. The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. if (isGrantedBy('whitelist_rule')) { South Armagh, however, where the close rural community and family connections of IRA men diminished the risk of infiltration, retained its larger "battalion" structure. 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. }); 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. 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. // Stop listening for mutations once we know this listener has been registered. There were also frequent gun attacks on foot patrols. return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 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. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA active service unit on armed operations. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. A farm complex by the village of Crossmaglen in South Armagh fell under suspicion and was put under surveillance. listenForFlipPayEvents(); return 'premium-plus'; Since then the security forces travel by helicopter for security reasons.". } The latter is suspected of playing a role in the London bombings that marked the end of the IRA. [28] By 1991, the RUC acknowledged that no mobile patrols had operated in South Armagh without Army support since 1975.[29]. subscriptionStartDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.original_start_at, meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, const getBundleValue = function (purchase, purchaseType) { [18] In August 1979, a South Armagh unit killed 18 soldiers in the Warrenpoint ambush. In a statement released by the IRA at the time they denied any role in it. const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); vars.article.userWall = ! if (vars.article.wallType === 'registration') { The dead man was from Knockamell Park in Armagh city. 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. 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. if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { The fact that the IRA executed the action despite the presence of a British Army watchtower nearby, caused outrage among British and Irish parliamentary circles. }; 9 February Michael Beswick (21), a member of the British Army, was killed in Cathedral Road, Armagh, when a remote-controlled bomb hidden by the Provisional IRA in a wall exploded as an army foot patrol was passing by. 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. Many of the major IRA bombs in England this decade, including Canary Wharf. }; return { [26] 1990s [ edit] let flipPayConfig = { [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. He was driving his minibus when a car pulled up beside it and a gunman opened fire on him. }); const element = mutation.target; "The fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead. subscriptionStartDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', He regarded as exceptions the East Tyrone IRA unit, led by Jim Lynagh who was killed in an SAS ambush during an IRA attack on Loughall RUC base in 1987, and the "tight as a drum" South Armagh . He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. 31 July 1993 - A British Army mobile checkpoint was fired at by an IRA sniper at Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. In 1984, his son-in-law Herbert Burrows will be killed in an IRA booby-trap explosion close to the scene of Wilson's death. } The patrol then immediately fled the scene, the police (once informed) took over 4 hours to respond. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; 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 made on the man in order to save embarrassment for the organisation. } [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. @OCFireRescue. subscriptionFinishDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', 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. 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The unveiling involved a large republican parade which failed to comply with the procedures of the Parades Commission. Around this time IRA engineers in South Armagh pioneered the use of home-made mortars which were relatively inaccurate but highly destructive.[14]. RM2HX09AC - File photo dated 7/8/2011 of Peter Smithwick, the senior judge who led an inquiry into claims of Garda/IRA collusion into the murder of two RUC officers, has died aged 85. bodyAvailable) { The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookieValue); }); When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); He was due to retire in five weeks. } [3] Compared to other brigades, the South Armagh IRA was seen as an 'independent republic' within the republican movement, retaining a battalion organizational structure and not adopting the cell structure the rest of the IRA was forced to adopt after repeated intelligence failures. Robinson was a former member of the UDR. This led to angry scenes as elected DUP members refused to stand. var p = purchase['granted_by_' + purchaseType]; It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. 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". document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "= ; path=/;domain=" + domain + ";expires = Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"; 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. } return cookieValue; } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_annual') > -1) { 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. In 1975 and 1976, as sectarian violence increased in Northern Ireland, the South Armagh Republican Action Force, allegedly a cover-name for the South Armagh Brigade, carried out two attacks against Protestants. [17] Corden-Lloyd's subordinates had been accused of brutality against Catholic civilians in Belfast in 1971. 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 (. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, After this, 24 security force personnel and Lord Justice Gibson and his wife were killed in the same areas, roughly a third of the previous yearly rate. [33][34], The South Armagh Brigade was by far the most effective IRA brigade in shooting down British helicopters during the conflict. 15/11/1974 Michael McVerry O.C. He retired as president of Ireland's District Court and in 2006 went on to lead a tribunal of inquiry into alleged Garda collusion in the 1989 murders of two RUC officers in south Armagh. He was later acquitted of any charges, but he eventually agreed in 2006 to pay 500,000 for cross-border smuggling. Bandit Country. Following intelligence that the IRA were using farms as bases of operations / weapons caches, the Police, assisted by Army intelligence operatives, began a series of surveillance and search operations. 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". When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; Harnden, Toby (1999). 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. [31] The South Armagh Brigade also built the bombs that were used to wreck economic targets in London during the 1990s, specially hitting the financial district. On 30 December 1990, Sinn Fin member and IRA volunteer,[30] Fergal Caraher, was killed by Royal Marines near a checkpoint in Cullyhanna. He is a close associate of the Provos\u0026#039; Border boss, Thomas \u0026#039;Slab\u0026#039; Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein.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.The Sunday Independent has learned that the South Armagh \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; was outed as a \u0026#039;tout\u0026#039; 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 \u0026#039;movement\u0026#039;. Fri 19 Mar 1999 23.07 EST. }); She was then carried out of the house and taken away in the boot of a car to Ballarat Street where she had her throat slashed back to the spine. vars.user.subscriptionStatus = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus || ''; vars.user.subscriptionStartDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStartDate || ''; 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. return 'premium'; const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; $553 (2019) Beds. [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. 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. 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. 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 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. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium') > -1) { The mortar round hit and shot down the helicopter, serial number ZD275, [1] while it was hovering over the helipad. A . const cookieData = getSubscriptionStatus(purchase); $312,000 (2022) Assessed Value. The new Irish Sea Border: What does it mean? subscriptionFinishDate: '', The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. 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. It is Pearse's message and it has not changed. 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. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. [26], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the IRA elsewhere in Northern Ireland found that nine out of ten planned operations were aborted. Raymond McCreesh, a South Armagh man, was among the ten republican hunger strikers who died for this goal in the 1981 hunger strike. Elliott was press officer for the Armagh branch of the. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. T uesday marked. The following August, two RUC constables were killed by a car bomb in Crossmaglen. !gigyaID ? subscriptionStatus: 'Corporate', const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'purchase'); The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. script.type = 'text/javascript'; console.log('observer.observe failed:', e); bundle: bundleValue, 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. [49] IRA members in South Armagh ceased co-operating with the RIRA after the Omagh bombing. !gigyaID ? window.GTMLoaded = false; document.head.append(script); The gunmen then escaped in a Ford Cortina which was found abandoned a short time later in the Windmill Hill area of the city. 30 July Martin Malone, an 18-year-old unarmed Catholic civilian, is shot dead by a UDR patrol in the Callan Street area. Other alleged illegal activities involve fraud through embezzlement of agricultural subsidies and false claims of property loss. Belton was shot and injured by other members of the patrol, but managed to flee to the Republic. 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. After that a struggle ensued in which Corrigan was shot at point-blank range in the head. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. } Orange County; Winter Garden; Seminole Street; 537 Seminole Street Winter Garden, FL 34787. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { return 'home-delivery'; meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, [58][59] The IRA control over the roads across the border in South Armagh enabled them to impose 'taxes' on every cross-border illegal enterprise. Hair tattoos becoming increasingly popular among men in Ireland. Overview of The Troubles in Armagh City, Northern Ireland, "Irish Police Face Peril of 'Murder Mile', "Issues: Violence McKittrick, Kelters, Feeney and Thornton (1999) Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles", "Madden and Finucane Closing Submissions (including excerpts from The Scarman Report)", "Five injured as Staffords are lured into Armagh booby trap", "Newton Emerson: Licensing next war is Adams's real legacy", "Calls for 'honesty' and inquiry over Troubles-related killings", "Paramilitary Feuds in Northern Ireland A Chronology of Events", "Gunmen Shoot Part-time Soldier, IRA Claims Responsibility", "Police inspector shot dead in Northern Ireland", "I.R.A. }; Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. 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. The helicopter crashed while taking evasive manoeuvres after being fired at from the east side of Edenappa road. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. The men were taken out of their minibus and then . This was the last action of the IRA Armagh Sniper teams. He is a close associate of the Provos' border boss Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. Martin McGuinness, then deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, gave the main oration, while Conor Murphy, then Minister for Regional Development, introduced the families of the dead IRA members. [9] After the split in the IRA in that year, the South Armagh unit sided with the Provisional IRA rather than the Official IRA. In case of an emergency, do not send message, dial 911. 7 September 61-year-old Catholic RUC man John Wasson is shot dead by the INLA outside his Duke's Grove home in a nationalist area of the city. It exploded as they ran to a getaway car, causing the building to collapse. 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. 'false' : 'true'; 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. [54][55] On 22 June 1998 a deadly incident involving fuel smuggling took place near Crossmaglen, when former Thomas Murphy employee Patrick Belton ran over and killed a British soldier attempting to stop him while driving his oil tanker through a military checkpoint. // Push initial dataLayer values into object. return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; OCFire Rescue. 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). It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. 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. 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. Neighborhood North of Turnpike Subdivision Pleasant Park. 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,. Wed 17 Sep 2014 11.51 EDT. 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. 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. 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