He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. 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. if (isGrantedBy('whitelist_rule')) { try { window.loadGTM(); A new full inquest is to be held into the IRA massacre of 10 Protestant workers shot dead in South Armagh in 1976. subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; 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,. {"gigya.api.key":"4_CO8231Ix1RbYi2EmMbsrlw","gigya.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.mobile.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.authFlow.redirect":"true","gigya.check.enabled":"true","gigya.check.host":"gigya-check.independent.ie","competitions.submit.endpoint":"https://competitions-api.independent.ie/entries","competitions.api.key":"0b15feaa-62b2-45a2-8244-723a9e80748e","subscriptionwall.cookie-domain":".independent.ie","subscriptionwall.metered.missing.fields":"data.occupation,data.phone,data.salutation,data.yearofbirth,profile.firstName,profile.lastName","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.home-delivery":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/home-delivery/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium-plus":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium-plus/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/","kaching.enabled":"true","outbrain.kaching.enabled":"true","quantcast.enabled":"false","didomi.enabled":"true","newsletter.subscribe_url":"https://member.independent.ie/quicksubscribe/IN:Daily/subscribe","social-embed-consent-wall.enabled":"true","homepage.regional.sections.mapping":"Cork:regionals/corkman/:corkman,Dublin:regionals/dublin/:dublin,Kerry:regionals/kerryman/:kerryman,Louth:regionals/louth/:louth,Sligo:regionals/sligochampion/:sligochampion,Wexford:regionals/wexford/:wexford,Wicklow:regionals/wicklow/:wicklow","active_cmp":"didomi"} {"url":"https://shared.mediahuis.be/ka-ching/independent/ka-ching.umd.js?20210830","adunit":"m.independent.ie/Irish_News","targeting":{"art_id":"34944633","article_id":"34944633","kw":["South","Armagh","IRA","rocked","as","OC","is","outed","as","a","tout"],"gs_channels":["gs_notprocessed"],"article_type":"standard"},"platform":"MOB","pageType":"Article","lazyload":true} {"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"South Armagh IRA rocked as \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; is outed as a \u0026#039;tout\u0026#039;","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Independent.ie","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://m.independent.ie/theme/_base/"},"@id":"independent.ie"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.independent.ie/incoming/65cdb/34944440.ece/AUTOCROP/w1240h700/provos.jpg","height":"700","width":"1240"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://www.independent.ie/"},"dateCreated":"2016-08-06T22:16:02.000Z","dateModified":"2016-08-06T22:40:34.000Z","datePublished":"2016-08-07T01:30:00Z","keywords":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://www.independent.ie/incoming/65cdb/34944440.ece/AUTOCROP/w1240h700/provos.jpg","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jim Cusack"},"description":"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. 'none' : 'registration'; Toby Harnden has interviewed members . The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. } Overall, the South Armagh Sniper operation carried out by the IRA was one of the most successful operations of that era of the troubles. Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images "And almost overnight the smugglers of South Armagh, under the control of the IRA, started bulk-buying . subscriptionFinishDate: '', window.showSubscriberElements = true; Although from Armagh city, he was a member of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade. 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: 'Corporate', 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. Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. The helicopter crashed while taking evasive manoeuvres after being fired at from the east side of Edenappa road. let flipPayConfig = { item_group_code: "pfc_indo", If you have already submitted an application for the ERA Program, a regional provider will follow-up with you directly and provide guidance on . userID: purchase.granted_by_corporate_account.user_id, Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, Although from Armagh city, he was a member of the IRA's, 31 July George Walsh, a 51-year-old member of the RUC, was shot dead when two INLA gunmen opened fire on the car he was sitting in outside, 2 August Two British soldiers are killed in a Provisional IRA landmine explosion on the Cathedral Road. [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. 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. His brother Michael Caraher, who was severely wounded in the shooting, later became the commander of one of the South Armagh sniper squads. vars.article.userWall = ! [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { Orange County; Winter Garden; Seminole Street; 537 Seminole Street Winter Garden, FL 34787. 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. He had left the UDR the year before. A . meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, Shortly afterwards, the Army abandoned road transport in South Armagh." 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. 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. Burrows came from Ballinahone Avenue in the city. 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. } catch (e) { 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. if (vars.article) { On 30 December 1990, Sinn Fin member and IRA volunteer,[30] Fergal Caraher, was killed by Royal Marines near a checkpoint in Cullyhanna. vars.user.subscriptionStartDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStartDate || ''; const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); 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. window.IMP.config = flipPayConfig; 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'. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. The gunmen then escaped in a Ford Cortina which was found abandoned a short time later in the Windmill Hill area of the city. Lost Lives, the chronology which attempts to list the name of everyone who died in the Troubles, mistakenly claims that the bombing occurred in, 16 June Terence McKeever, a 31-year-old Armagh businessman is abducted and then shot dead by the Provisional IRA, with his body being left near the village of, 21 March INLA member Kevin Barry Duffy is shot dead in the grounds of, 25 September 22-year-old UDR member Stephen McKinney is shot dead by the Provisional IRA on the Cabragh Road on the outskirts of Armagh. "The fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead. ", Sinn Fein ministers McGuinness and Murphy in illegal parade, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provisional_IRA_South_Armagh_Brigade&oldid=1098002029. South Armagh, however, where the close rural community and family connections of IRA men diminished the risk of infiltration, retained its larger "battalion" structure. [23] This incident was investigated by the Smithwick Tribunal into alleged collusion between the IRA and the Garda. 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. 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'. 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. The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. 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. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. [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. if (!! if (cookieValue) { subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.finish_at, subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'corporate_account'); The workers' bus was stopped and the one Catholic worker taken aside before the others were killed. 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. Whilst security forces arrested some south Armagh republicans in 1997, republican . bundle: 'none', [49] IRA members in South Armagh ceased co-operating with the RIRA after the Omagh bombing. 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". $553 (2019) Beds. // Regionals Container }); 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. 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. userID: '', const element = mutation.target; } else { if (eventType === 'access_resolved' || eventType === 'access_resolved ') { 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. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. 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. . His Catholic girlfriend was driving behind him in her car when the explosion happened. Many of the major IRA bombs in England this decade, including Canary Wharf. 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 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;. 3 May 56-year-old Robert Orr, an ex-member of the RUC, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explodes under his car as he drove along the Mall in the centre of Armagh. Despite British watchtowers with sophisticated surveillance equipment across south Armagh from the mid-1980s, various ex-Irish and British security personnel agree that the . } vars.article.userWall = 'none'; 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. return; [26] 1990s [ edit] FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. "Orde visit seen as farewell to Army", by Phillp Bradfield. 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. const eventType = event.detail.event_type; Three British soldiers and a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) member were wounded. Fri 19 Mar 1999 23.07 EST. window.loadGTM = function () { 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. 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. (function () { subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.finish_at, The mortar round hit and shot down the helicopter, serial number ZD275, [1] while it was hovering over the helipad. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, 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. } !gigyaID ? 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. enable_showcase: true, [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 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. 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. John McGleenan (45), Patrick Hughes (30) and Thomas Morris (22), all, 25 January David McDowell, a 26-year-old member of the UDR from Alexander Park in the city, is accidentally shot dead by a member of the, 9 April 73-year-old Catholic pensioner Michael Sweeney is killed when the UVF launch a bomb attack on Lenny's Bar in the Railway Street area of the city, which also injuries 14 other people. vars.user.subscriptionStatus = subscriberCookie.subscriptionStatus || ''; const domain = '.independent.ie'; [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. ","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. [24] As the divisional commander for South Armagh, Breen was the most senior policeman to have been killed during the Troubles. userID: purchase.granted_by_whitelist_rule.user_id, The dead man was a World War II veteran and had taken part in the. These bases acted as information-gathering centres and also allowed the British Army to patrol South Armagh more securely. new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], Sorry, we couldn't find what you're looking for. 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. bodyAvailable = true; 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. 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. } const onMutation = function (mutations) { let cookieValue = parts.join('='); A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. } This led to angry scenes as elected DUP members refused to stand. }); 2 . } The IRA claimed that he was a member of the UDR, something that was denied by the police and army. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, The South Armagh IRA were recognised as an independent entity by Provisionals from the mid-1970s, with the area notoriously dangerous for police and army operations. He had charge of the IRA's border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. $312,000 (2022) Assessed Value. Murphy was lightly wounded and arrested by the RUC. 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. 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. 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. It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations. Earlier in the day two large no-warning car bombs left by the loyalist. return key.indexOf('granted_by_') > -1; } if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { The British patrol manning the checkpoint returned fire. 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