const selectedRegional = localStorage.getItem('selectedRegionals'); 15/11/1974 Michael McVerry O.C. }; subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', Wed 17 Sep 2014 11.51 EDT. document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "=" + JSON.stringify(cookieData) + ';path=/;domain=' + domain + ';max-age='+cookieExpiryInSeconds; Despite British watchtowers with sophisticated surveillance equipment across south Armagh from the mid-1980s, various ex-Irish and British security personnel agree that the . 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). const getCookie = key => { 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. The workers' bus was stopped and the one Catholic worker taken aside before the others were killed. 28 March In an identical attack to the one that killed Derek Monteith, 58-year-old RUC member George Starrett is shot dead in the kitchen of his home on the Newry Road by the Provisional IRA. const domain = '.independent.ie'; Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, 31 July 1993 - A British Army mobile checkpoint was fired at by an IRA sniper at Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. 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. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; Bandit Country. The IRA claimed that he was a member of the UDR, something that was denied by the police and army. 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'. return; 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. 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[9] After the split in the IRA in that year, the South Armagh unit sided with the Provisional IRA rather than the Official IRA. She left behind a husband and three children. [4], As well as paramilitary activity, the South Armagh Brigade has also been widely accused of smuggling across the Irish border. The customs building itself was later destroyed in an IRA bomb attack in 1986. 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. 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. He had left the UDR the year before. return; const flipPayJsUrl = 'https://cdn.flip-pay.com/clients/inm/flip-pay.js'; const eventType = event.detail.event_type; }; if (window.GTMLoaded === true) { South Armagh has long been the IRA stronghold and any defections would be a devastating blow to the leadership. His hands had been tied behind his back and his eyes taped closed at Central. 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. 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. 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. } } mutations.forEach((mutation) => { The owner of the farm was also arrested. At that moment, a gun battle was taking place on the ground between British soldiers and members of the South Armagh Brigade. Harnden, Toby (1999). }; He was driving his minibus when a car pulled up beside it and a gunman opened fire on him. const gigyaID = getCookie('guid'); According to author Toby Harnden, the decision was taken shortly after a Saracen armoured vehicle was destroyed by a culvert bomb near Crossmaglen, on 9 October 1975. if (element.tagName === 'BODY' && ! } catch (e) { window.loadGTM(); In July last year Wilson and south Armagh man Sean Gerard Hughes were returned for trial to face counts of belonging to a proscribed organisation and addressing a meeting to encourage support for . if (vars.article) { if (isGrantedBy('corporate_account')) { There was no reaction from British security although the RUC/Army base was just 50 yards away. 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. . 27 August 1992 - An unsuccessful attack was launched by a sniper on a British Army patrol at Carran Road, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. if (eventType === 'access_resolved' || eventType === 'access_resolved ') { window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; 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. [10], However, the IRA campaign in the area did not begin in earnest until 1971. The 'OC' is said to have bought another substantial portion of farmland in Armagh. 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'. window.dataLayer.push(vars); [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. [6], South Armagh has a long Irish republican tradition. 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. vars.article.wallVisible = ! if (flipPayJsUrl) { The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. [13] Another noted IRA commander at that time was the commanding officer of the first battalion, Captain Michael McVerry. [37] A sustained machine gun attack against a helicopter was filmed by a Dublin television crew in March 1991 outside Crossmaglen Health Center. 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. } } To republicans, it is 'God's Country', the only area in the six counties where the occupiers have successfully been resisted. 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. !gigyaID ? subscriptionStatus: 'Whitelist', 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. } Men from the area also took part in IRA campaigns in the 1940 and 1950s. 14 November Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) chairman of Armagh District Council and part-time major in the UDR Charles Armstrong is killed in a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb explosion as he sat in his car outside the council's headquarters at the Palace Demense. 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. The loyalties of many people in Northern Ireland's South Armagh are with the neighboring Irish republic. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'purchase'); Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army, was attacked by an IRA unit near Jonesborough, Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, took control of the village of Cullaville, deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, "Tribunal to investigate murders of RUC officers", BBC On This DAY - 20 March 1989 "Senior RUC men die in gun attack", "Governments must end immoral indulgence of Sinn Fin/IRA", Commons debate, 8 June 1993, columns 192-197, Commons debate, 8 June 1993, columns 180-191, The only way to travel across bandit country, "Final British Watchtowers being removed", "No democrat will shed tears at demise of RIR and its bases", "North-south crackdown on IRA's hidden wealth", "Is 'Slab' Murphy's bloody reign drawing to an end? subscriptionStartDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', 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. When they arrived, they were surrounded by 16 SAS men, who ordered them to surrender. let flipPayConfig = { Many of the major IRA bombs in England this decade, including Canary Wharf. It is Pearse's message and it has not changed. bodyAvailable = true; if (vars.article.wallType === 'registration') { return grantedBy.indexOf(grant) > -1 He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. A unit of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade fired a heavy improvised mortar at the British Army base in Crossmaglen, County Armagh. }; Since then the security forces travel by helicopter for security reasons.". [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. He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s. 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. } 9 March James Hogg, a 23-year-old Protestant civilian and member of the Orange Order, was shot dead in what is thought to have been a sectarian revenge attack by the INLA. Web Site Copyright 1995-2023 WGBH Educational Foundation. It is not clear how the \u0026#039;OC\u0026#039; 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. Around this time IRA engineers in South Armagh pioneered the use of home-made mortars which were relatively inaccurate but highly destructive.[14]. if (!! } 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. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_annual') > -1) { }); He was from Ashley Heights in the city and was a leading member of the Orange Order. }; [49] IRA members in South Armagh ceased co-operating with the RIRA after the Omagh bombing. Sources say that shortly before they were captured the team was given orders by the man not to carry any weapons when they were directed to a farm to collect their sniper rifle for an operation. He was eventually killed during an attack on the RUC barracks in Keady in November 1973. document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "= ; path=/;domain=" + domain + ";expires = Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"; He is a close associate of the Provos' Border boss, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy, Gerry Adams and other figures in Sinn Fein. Let the message from south Armagh ring loud and clear to the occupation forces. But there's more: discover your full benefits now. 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. 23 April 38-year-old Protestant John Robinson is shot dead by the Provisional IRA outside the Mullacreevie estate. The incident caused outrage among South Armagh residents, provided the IRA with many new recruits and created a hostile climate where local people were prepared to tolerate the killing of security force members. bodyAvailable) { if (event.detail.object.access === true) { cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookieValue); return 'none'; He was among a group of youths who were asked for ID by the patrol, and when an argument then broke out between them and the UDR members he was shot once in the chest at point blank range. vars.article.wallVisible = 'false'; 17 June 34-year-old Geraldine Corrigan died two days after being shot by what is thought to have been a member of the Official IRA during a botched robbery at her family's supermarket on the Cathedral Road. return key.split('granted_by_')[1]; 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. 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. The second most senior IRA man in south Armagh is being protected amid claims that he worked as an agent for British intelligence, according to usually reliable security sources. 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;. const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; [35] The shooting down of the Lynx in 1994 during a mortar attack on Crossmaglen barracks is regarded by Toby Harnden as the most successful IRA operation against a helicopter in the course of the Troubles. })(); Premium subscribers enjoy unlimited access to all articles. } Unlike other operations in which the SAS were involved, members of the sniper team were not killed. 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. [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. 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. 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. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); } [27] However, the South Armagh Brigade continued to carry out varied and high-profile attacks in the same period. observer.disconnect(); 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 { }); bundle: 'none', Earlier in the day two large no-warning car bombs left by the loyalist. 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. [60], "The Saracen armoured car blown up by a culvert bomb at Lurganculleboy, near Crossmaglen in October 1975, killing Corporal Edward Gleeson. const script = document.createElement('script'); In March 1989, two senior RUC officers were killed in an ambush near Jonesborough. // Push initial dataLayer values into object. He was identified as the IRA's chief technical officer by the Central Intelligence Agency. try { 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. const cookieExpiryInSeconds = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30; October 21 2015 11:41 PM The mother of a young man who was beaten to death by a south Armagh IRA gang has demanded that Sinn Fin members stop "protecting" her son's killers. He was finishing work building garages at the back of the Housing Executive offices on Dobbin Street when the gunman struck. @OCFireRescue. document.head.append(script); } [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. He was the only IPLO member to die while attacking state forces. His brother Michael Caraher, who was severely wounded in the shooting, later became the commander of one of the South Armagh sniper squads. In September 1975 they attacked an Orange lodge in Newtownhamilton, killing five members of the lodge. He along with another man were apparently intending to break into the supermarket when Harker was shot by members of a UDR patrol. [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. 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