11 August 1986: The East Tyrone Brigade destroyed the RUC base at, 23 November 1986: six British soldiers were wounded after the Brigade launched seven mortars at a British Army barracks in. [105], On 15 July 1994, an armed dump truck ambushed an RUC armoured mobile patrol at Killeshil, near Dungannon. From the Sunday Tribune. All the IRA members involved withdrew successfully. See: Attack on UDR Clogher barracks East Tyrone appears an outlier in rural areas by the 1990s. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. [11] Scottish-born journalist Kevin Toolis has written that from 1985 onward, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged. Another British soldier was injured in Pomeroy when his patrol was fired on by an IRA unit on 2 August 1992. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. But somebody not being able to smuggle is not what revolutions are made out of. [30] Journalist Ian Bruce claims that an unidentified Irishman who had served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. [107] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. [101][102] The East Tyrone Brigade reported that they took over the area between the checkpoint and the border, set a roadblock, then drove a tractor carrying the mortar to the firing point and issued a 30-minute warning. At least two British soldiers were severely wounded in action near Cappagh[66] and Pomeroy[70] in 1992. [42][43] On 26 March, an IRA unit firing a light machine gun disrupted a UDR mobile checkpoint at Lurgylea road, north of Cappagh. Nobody cares.. He recalls the EEC No signs that accompanied Brits Out graffiti around Monaghan when he was growing, up in the 1970s. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic men in a betting shop on Ormeau Road, Belfast. A British Army helicopter was fired on in the aftermath of the ambush. [51], The Fintona RUC/Army base damaged by mortar fire, 27 December 1993, In March 1992, members of the brigade destroyed McGowan's service station along the Ballygawley/Monaghan road, on the basis that they were supplying British forces,[52] while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. After the shooting they drove past the house of Tony Doris, the IRA man killed the previous year, where they fired more shots in the air and were heard to shout, "Up the 'RA, that's for Tony Doris". [121], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). There were a number of actions carried out by the IRA in the eastern part of Tyrone from 1996 up to the latest IRA ceasefire of July 1997: Risn McAliskey, daughter of political activist Bernadette McAliskey and suspected IRA member from Coalisland was accused by German authorities of being involved in a mortar attack on British Army facilities in Osnabrck, Germany, on 28 June 1996. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. He was arrested in 1988 for crossing the Dutch-German border with AK-47 rifles in the boot of his car and charged with attacks on British soldiers based in Germany. [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. The IRA Northern Command, however, approved a scaled-down version of the strategy, aimed at hampering the repair and refurbishment of British security bases. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. IRA volunteers had been lying in wait outside the barracks and, as the officers left, two gunmen stepped out of concealed positions and shot both officers in the head from close range. This is not a land of milk and honey under the European Union. Three of the four are convicted killers or have served time in relation to a killing. As for the warnings made by diplomats, bureaucrats and Eurocrats about the threats to the peace process from Brexit, McIntyre says it is similar to Sinn Fins use of the peace process to expand its political influence, where the process must always undermine the peace. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. Almost immediately another part-time soldier chanced upon the scene and opened fire on the fleeing gunmen who managed to escape by forcing a passing car to stop and raced off. Their brothers, Pdraig McKearney and Jim Lynagh, were among eight members of the IRAs east Tyrone brigade killed by the SAS during an attack on an RUC station in the Protestant village of Loughgall, in Co Tyrone, in May 1987. [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. He later became the longest-serving volunteer in this job, right up to the 1997 cease-fire.[79]. [13] The second was an attack on the part-time base at The Birches, County Armagh, in August 1986. He explains to Simon Carswell how Brexit is the best thing ever for Irish nationalists and republicans. We have been neglected, McKearney says, citing patchy broadband in parts of Co Monaghan as an example. That was not to do with economics. But the reality is that it is going to be more and more obvious. There were four members of the Provisionals from East Tyrone searching my house, and they . [34], On 4 March 1990, ten IRA volunteers launched an assault on the RUC station at Stewartstown using an improvised flamethrower consisting of a manure-spreader towed by a tractor to spray 600 imperial gallons (2,700L) of a petrol/diesel mix to set the base ablaze, and then opened up with rifles and an RPG-7 rocket launcher. But they wanted to form a rival force that could have wrecked all peace hopes, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. CAIN Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1997 UTV News, 9 July 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Provisional_IRA_East_Tyrone_Brigade&oldid=1137091264, Provisional Irish Republican Army Brigades, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking reliable references from October 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 14 September 1971: a British soldier (John Rudman, aged 21) was shot dead while on mobile patrol, Edendork, near. Another street fracas on 17 May between a King's Own Scottish Borderers platoon and a group of nationalist youths in Coalisland resulted in the theft of an army machine gun and a new confrontation with the paratroopers. [26] On 30 August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin as they tried to kill an off-duty Ulster Defence Regiment member near Carrickmore. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was an off-duty Royal Irish Rangers soldier. After breaking from Sinn Fin he stood as an independent republican in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The East Tyrone IRA saw its activities decline by the 1990s following repeated SAS ambushes. On 11 May 1993, an IRA militant pretending to be a motorist that had been asked to show his licence at the barracks left a van carrying a mortar outside the facilities. I think its all guff.. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[132][133]. Ed Moloney, Irish journalist and author of the Secret History of the IRA, states that the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed in the Troubles - the highest of any Brigade area. Ed Moloney is an Irish journalist who frequently covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland. On 3 September 2012 prominent Real IRA member Alan Ryan was shot dead in Dublin. Jim Lynagh, member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), one of twelve children, is born on the Tully Estate, a housing estate in the townland of Killygowan on the southern edge of Monaghan, County Monaghan, on April 13, 1956.. Lynagh joins the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the early 1970s. Lynagh's strategy was to start off with one area which the British military did not control, preferably a republican stronghold such as east Tyrone. A second IRA rifle team fired at a British Army Lynx helicopter sending in reinforcements to the area over the surroundings of Fivemiletown. The bombing was at Teebane Crossroads, near Cookstown. There is very, very little appetite among republican circles in the North for a resumption of any armed campaign. It is of his great-grandfather Henry McGeough, a member of the Ribbonmen, the 19th-century society of often violent Catholic rebels. These are among the surprising views expressed by a number of former hard men of republicanism, interviewed by The Irish Times for their unique insights into the thorny issues of Brexit and Northern Irelands future. in Co Tyrone, on November 29 1989. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. [87] On 30 April, a heavy horizontal mortar was fired at an RUC patrol vehicle near Ballygawley roundabout; the round missed its target and hit a wall. [8] In April 1987 they shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main contractors to the British Army and the RUC in Northern Ireland. It is hugely insulting, Lynagh says as he picks nicotine gum from a wrapper. He was sentenced to 20 years in 2011 but was released after two years, under the Belfast Agreement. He has vivid childhood memories of seeing the Moy Bridge and the road to his grandmothers home in Monaghan lying in the Blackwater River after being blown up the night before by B Specials members of the Ulster Special Constabulary quasi-military reserve. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. Fifty people were evacuated. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. IRA veterans Brexit feature - pix Gerry McGeough Former Provisional IRA volunteer Gerry McGeough, who served time in prison for the attempted murder of a UDR man in 1981, on his farm near Dungannon, Co Tyrone. The cops and the security services have been so on top of the armed republican groups that have been operating in the wake of the Provisional IRA. They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. [120] The IRA said that the workers were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". A third former republican paramilitary suggests that Ireland would be better off in an economic bloc with the UK rather than with the European Union. The first phase of Lynagh's plan to drive out the British security forces from east Tyrone involved destroying isolated rural police stations and then intimidating or killing any building contractors who were employed to rebuild them. [95] The fortified[96] courthouse in Cookstown was meanwhile damaged by two bombs planted there on 15 October 1993. Simon Carswell. [88][89], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. 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