} // Regionals Container } 15/11/1974 Michael McVerry O.C. 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. Three British soldiers and a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) member were wounded. 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 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. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); 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. try { } He was finishing work building garages at the back of the Housing Executive offices on Dobbin Street when the gunman struck. The new Irish Sea Border: What does it mean? const gigyaID = getCookie('guid'); item_group_code: "pfc_indo", On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "=" + JSON.stringify(cookieData) + ';path=/;domain=' + domain + ';max-age='+cookieExpiryInSeconds; When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. vars.user.subscriptionStatus = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus || ''; const isGrantedBy = function (grant) { In one such ambush in August 1972, a Ferret armoured car was destroyed by a 600lb landmine, killing one soldier. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_annual') > -1) { 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. South Armagh, however, where the close rural community and family connections of IRA men diminished the risk of infiltration, retained its larger "battalion" structure. On 30 December 1990, Sinn Fin member and IRA volunteer,[30] Fergal Caraher, was killed by Royal Marines near a checkpoint in Cullyhanna. Murphy was lightly wounded and arrested by the RUC. 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.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; [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. His hands had been tied behind his back and his eyes taped closed at Central. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium-plus') > -1) { return 'home-delivery'; 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 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. let cookieValue = parts.join('='); Robinson was a former member of the UDR. [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. 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. // Push initial dataLayer values into object. These bases acted as information-gathering centres and also allowed the British Army to patrol South Armagh more securely. A . The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. A further 75 civilians were killed in the area during the conflict,[6] as well as ten South Armagh Brigade members. userID: purchase.granted_by_purchase.user_id, }; [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. At that moment, a gun battle was taking place on the ground between British soldiers and members of the South Armagh Brigade. Elliott was press officer for the Armagh branch of the. 'false' : 'true'; })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KJF4'); 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. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. He was from Ashley Heights in the city and was a leading member of the Orange Order. 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. 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;. }; His killing happened one day before his 30th birthday. [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. Harnden was held to be in contempt of the Bloody Sunday tribunal for . Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The chief of staff and head of the IRA is Thomas "Slab" Murphy, a millionaire racketeer and smuggler from south Armagh who was instrumental in bringing about the 1994 ceasefire and then planning the London Docklands bombing which broke it. const grantedBy = Object.keys(purchase).filter(function (key) { document.body.addEventListener('fp_user_event', function (event) { 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. After that a struggle ensued in which Corrigan was shot at point-blank range in the head. [49] IRA members in South Armagh ceased co-operating with the RIRA after the Omagh bombing. (function () { $69,194 (2019) Property Taxes. 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. In 1986, the British Army erected ten hilltop observation posts in South Armagh. Their discontent was deepened by Sinn Fin's endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. [26], In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the IRA elsewhere in Northern Ireland found that nine out of ten planned operations were aborted. He had charge of the IRA\u0026#039;s Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s.The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army\u0026#039;s SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. This page was last edited on 13 July 2022, at 18:49. He was returning from his shift at, 21 February 29-year-old on-duty RUC sergeant William Gordon Wilson is killed when a Provisional IRA bomb is detonated behind the door of a derelict pub in the nationalist Shambles area close to the city centre. 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. , South Armagh IRA is killed on active service during an attack on Keady barracks. vars.category.regionals = selectedRegional || ''; bodyAvailable = true; 3 April 1993 - A British soldier was shot and injured by the IRA near Crossmaglen, South Armagh. 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. }); The workers' bus was stopped and the one Catholic worker taken aside before the others were killed. }; } Watch: Peter Crouch sings the Fields of Athenry with Liverpool fans in Dublin pub, Senior Tory begrudgingly backs Sunaks bitter pill Brexit deal as DUP split over support, 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. return key.indexOf('granted_by_') > -1; 24 January Tony Harker, a 21-year-old Catholic civilian, is shot dead by the UDR in disputed circumstances outside a supermarket on the Keady Road. 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. return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; if (isGrantedBy('app_purchase')) { [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. window.dataLayer.push(vars); Raymond McCreesh, a South Armagh man, was among the ten republican hunger strikers who died for this goal in the 1981 hunger strike. }; Wed 17 Sep 2014 11.51 EDT. 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. 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. subscriptionFinishDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', } 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 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. Although from Armagh city, he was a member of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade. Fri 19 Mar 1999 23.07 EST. 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. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.finish_at, premium_content: false, [21] Three months later, a further four RUC officers were killed by a 900 lb roadside bomb at Killean, County Armagh.[22]. More people could be killed or forced from their homes in a feud between factions of the Provisional IRA in south Armagh, republicans and security chiefs warned . subscriptionStatus: '', Michael McKevitt and his wife Bernadette were evicted from their home near Dundalk. !gigyaID ? 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. 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