Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. 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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: Harnden, Toby (1999). 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. document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "=" + JSON.stringify(cookieData) + ';path=/;domain=' + domain + ';max-age='+cookieExpiryInSeconds; Nine of these were killed in the February 1985 Newry mortar attack. } }); 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. } 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. subscriptionStartDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', 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. if (eventType === 'access_resolved' || eventType === 'access_resolved ') { He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. 'none' : 'registration'; 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. $553 (2019) Beds. const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); A new full inquest is to be held into the IRA massacre of 10 Protestant workers shot dead in South Armagh in 1976. [24] As the divisional commander for South Armagh, Breen was the most senior policeman to have been killed during the Troubles. if (isGrantedBy('app_purchase')) { '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= OCFire Rescue. [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, Stock image. Let the message from south Armagh ring loud and clear to the occupation forces. window.IMP.config = flipPayConfig; cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookieValue); [27] However, the South Armagh Brigade continued to carry out varied and high-profile attacks in the same period. The loyalties of many people in Northern Ireland's South Armagh are with the neighboring Irish republic. $69,194 (2019) Property Taxes. Murphy was lightly wounded and arrested by the RUC. [47] The Omagh bombing of August 1998, a botched Real IRA operation which killed 29 civilians, was prepared by dissident republicans in South Armagh. 'false' : 'true'; 22 January Derek Monteith, a 35-year-old inspector in the RUC, is shot dead by the Provisional IRA in the kitchen of his home in Kilburn Park off the Portadown Road in the city. 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When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. }; Around this time IRA engineers in South Armagh pioneered the use of home-made mortars which were relatively inaccurate but highly destructive.[14]. const domain = '.independent.ie'; He had charge of the IRA's border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. subscriptionStatus: 'Corporate', 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. if (vars.article.wallType === 'registration') { }; Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. The IRA claimed that he was a member of the UDR, something that was denied by the police and army. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); He had just finished his last shift in the regiment when he was shot outside his home. [25], South Armagh became the most heavily militarised area in Northern Ireland. The \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. McGinn, who laughed when he received his life sentence, died in December 2013 from a suspected heart attack in Monaghan town, aged 56. [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. In one such ambush in August 1972, a Ferret armoured car was destroyed by a 600lb landmine, killing one soldier. The South Armagh IRA. Bandit Country. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. vars.user.subscriptionFinishDate = subscriberCookie.subscriptionFinishDate || ''; 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. listenForFlipPayEvents(); Wed 19 Mar 2003 20.45 EST. ","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. She left behind a husband and three children. In case of an emergency, do not send message, dial 911. 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. He was finishing work building garages at the back of the Housing Executive offices on Dobbin Street when the gunman struck. 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,. Their discontent was deepened by Sinn Fin's endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. } meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, }; [10], However, the IRA campaign in the area did not begin in earnest until 1971. (function () { 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. A farm complex by the village of Crossmaglen in South Armagh fell under suspicion and was put under surveillance. if (!! for (let i = 0, parts; (parts = cookies[i] && cookies[i].split('=')); i++) { He was on bail at the time of his death charged with having petrol bombs for use in rioting, and was prominent in, 27 August Wilfred McIlveen, a 37-year-old Protestant and former member of the UDR, is killed when a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explodes under his car as he was leaving, 7 October Frederick Williamson, a 33-year-old member of the UDR from Orangefield Drive in the city, is killed along with 28-year-old prison officer Elizabeth Chambers from. 2 . He along with another man were apparently intending to break into the supermarket when Harker was shot by members of a UDR patrol. const eventType = event.detail.event_type; Although the British army has tried to block the region's 370-mile border with Ireland,. Hodder & Stoughton. 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 British patrol manning the checkpoint returned fire. const cookieExpiryInSeconds = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30; 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. Ten workers were murdered after the IRA ambushed their van in 1976 By Linda Stewart Wed 17 May 2017 at 18:30 An inquest has heard how the south Armagh brigade of the Provisional IRA was. userID: purchase.granted_by_corporate_account.user_id, The patrol then immediately fled the scene, the police (once informed) took over 4 hours to respond. 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. Says It Killed Tory M.P. 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. window.dataLayer.push(vars); {"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. } He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, !gigyaID ? window.GTMLoaded = false; const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; 10 November Charles Neville, a 56-year-old Protestant and former member of the UDR, is killed in a Provisional IRA gun and grenade attack on his car at the Loughgall Road. 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. } In March 1989, two senior RUC officers were killed in an ambush near Jonesborough. [32] On 22 April 1993, the South Armagh IRA unit took control of the village of Cullaville near the border with the Republic, for two hours, making good use of dead ground. const cookieData = updateSubscriberCookie(event.detail.object); There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. 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'. South Armagh has long been the IRA stronghold and any defections would be a devastating blow to the leadership. The workers' bus was stopped and the one Catholic worker taken aside before the others were killed. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. 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. A . } The truck bombs were sent to England by ferry. His killing happened one day before his 30th birthday. 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. script.type = 'text/javascript'; window.showSubscriberElements = true; The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. He was later acquitted of any charges, but he eventually agreed in 2006 to pay 500,000 for cross-border smuggling. 8 November Adrian Carroll, a 24-year-old. . [18] In August 1979, a South Armagh unit killed 18 soldiers in the Warrenpoint ambush. Michael McKevitt and his wife Bernadette were evicted from their home near Dundalk. document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "= ; path=/;domain=" + domain + ";expires = Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"; return 'home-delivery'; He was identified as the IRA's chief technical officer by the Central Intelligence Agency. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. 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. var p = purchase['granted_by_' + purchaseType]; return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 13 April 38-year-old Territorial Army sergeant Trevor Elliott from Alexander Gardens in the city is shot dead by the Provisional IRA as he walked from his shop in Keady, south Armagh. Fri 19 Mar 1999 23.07 EST. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, childList: true, South Armagh IRA rocked as 'OC' is outed as a 'tout', 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. The owner of the farm was also arrested. const selectedRegional = localStorage.getItem('selectedRegionals'); [51][52], Since the army wind-down in 2007, security in the area is the sole responsibility of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. return { const getCookie = key => { The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. 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. A sniper rifle and other weapons were recovered. 18 April 1992 Brendan McWilliams (50), a Catholic civilian employee of the British Army, was shot and killed by the IRA at his home at Nialls Crescent, off the Killylea Road. if (parts.shift() === key) { The IRA ceasefire of 1994 was a blow to the South Armagh Brigade, in that it allowed the security forces to operate openly in the area without fear of attack and to build intelligence on IRA members. 27 August 1992 - An unsuccessful attack was launched by a sniper on a British Army patrol at Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. 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. userID: purchase.granted_by_app_purchase.user_id, 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. 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. bodyAvailable = true; 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. 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":""}}' || '{}'); Orange County; Winter Garden; Seminole Street; 537 Seminole Street Winter Garden, FL 34787. } return cookieValue; 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. [19] This was the biggest single loss of life inflicted on the British Army in its deployment in Northern Ireland (Operation Banner). 18 April IPLO member Martin Corrigan from Railway Street in the city is shot dead by British Army soldiers at Kinnego, a few miles from Armagh. subscriptionStatus: 'Whitelist', 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. He was the 267th RUC officer to die in the Troubles. 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 customs building itself was later destroyed in an IRA bomb attack in 1986. [2] It has allegedly been commanded since the 1970s by Thomas 'Slab' Murphy who is also alleged to be a member of the IRA's Army Council. 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[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. The latter is suspected of playing a role in the London bombings that marked the end of the IRA. The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. const listenForFlipPayEvents = function () { } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { }; 'false' : 'true'; Overall, the South Armagh Sniper operation carried out by the IRA was one of the most successful operations of that era of the troubles. Shortly afterwards, the Army abandoned road transport in South Armagh." [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. 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. 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. The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. const script = document.createElement('script'); Despite British watchtowers with sophisticated surveillance equipment across south Armagh from the mid-1980s, various ex-Irish and British security personnel agree that the . . })(); Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. 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