Kelly, Sean Donnelly, and Declan Arthurs had come to age when Martin [19][unreliable source? their own interests: their fears that Loughgall would redound to the [78], From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone carried out a dozen bomb and mortar attacks against RUC and military bases and assets. bad, the more difficult it became to see the IRAs violence as bad; it was also clear that the decision to kill them had been made prior to Journalist Ian Bruce, instead, claims that an Irishman who served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. [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. The UVF killed 40 people in East Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. [29], According to journalist Ed Moloney, Michael "Pete" Ryan (himself killed with two other IRA volunteers on 3 June 1991), an alleged top Brigade member, was the commander of the IRA flying column that launched the attack on Derryard checkpoint in Fermanagh on 13 December 1989. In July 1983, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out a landmine ambush on an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) mobile patrol near Ballygawley, killing three UDR soldiers (a fourth UDR soldier died later). [21] One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. In the 1980s, the IRA in East Tyrone and other areas close to the border, such as South Armagh, were following a Maoist military theory[8] devised for Ireland by Jim Lynagh, a high-profile member of the IRA in East Tyrone (but a native of County Monaghan). the stake-out itself. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. The IRA retaliated on 5 August 1991, when they shot and killed a former UDR soldier while living his workplace along Altmore Road, also in Cappagh. [49] Another former UDR soldier was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone in April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. being won. prison crisis; the question now was whether the British government was Sean O'Farrell was wounded and attempted to escape. On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. And in the 5 July 1997: An IRA volunteer shot and seriously wounded an RUC female officer in the town of Coalisland during an attack on an armoured vehicle beside the Army/RUC base. "[20], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. Your Market News for trending stories from around the world. E arly on the evening of Friday, May 8, 1987, eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade, among the most militant units of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA), steered two stolen vehicles toward the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. the gut reaction was in danger of becoming the prevailing reaction. 10 February 1997: a horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. the eve of a British general election in which its main opposition His elder brother, a civilian contractor to the Ministry of Defence, had died in a South Armagh Brigade mortar attack one year before, while working inside an Army base near Keady, County Armagh. 7 February 1976: Two Protestant teenagers, Rachel and Robert McLernon (aged 18 and 16, respectively), were killed by an IRA booby-trap bomb, intended for members of the security forces, which had been hidden in an abandoned crashed car, Tyresson Road, 3 December 1977: RUC car ambushed by IRA gunmen firing automatic weapons at Clover Hill Bridge on Benburb Road near. shooting an Irishman in Ireland produces a gut reaction.. [50] The later attack led to allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region. 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. On 11 February 1990 the brigade managed to shoot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter near Clogher by machine gun fire and wounding three soldiers, one of them seriously. Famous quotes . abiding minds in Northern Ireland.), Nationalists were wary. At first the Dublin government put the blame [4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. The priest presiding over the requiem mass for [70][71][72] Another soldier in the same patrol had a narrow escape when a rifle round hit his gear. There were no casualties. [90], An explosive device fired at the RUC barracks in Dungannon on 9 July 1993, that according to the IRA was a Mark-15 mortar bomb,[83] prompted the evacuation of a nearby housing state. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. [10][11] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. A continuing monthly donation of 2 or more will give you full access to this site. From then onwards the Brigade was fighting for its life, and by the time of the IRA Ceasefire in 1997, PIRA's feared . with firepower ferociously excessive for the occasion invoked folk acceded to the IRAs view of the conflict made it increasingly memories of the Black and Tan war, stirred in the dim recesses of many murder.). The people who laid in wait, the people who O'Donnell had been released without charges for possession of weapons on two different occasions in the past. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy, opened fire on a party of fifteen IRA thousands and thousands of Irish people shocked and angered at the Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. The Auxiliaries, Republicans were reminded in An Phoblacht/Republican [it] demonstrated that [the IRA] could carry out devastating attacks on collapsing time, compressing the historical moment, impelling 2032 member. 7 September 1981: two RUC officers (Mark Evans and Stuart Montgomery) were killed when their patrol vehicle struck an IRA landmine at Sessadonaghy, near. [89][82], On 6 June 1993, an IRA unit converted a stolen van in a "mobile mortar launcher" in the area of Pomeroy and slipped through British forces' surveillance to the RUC barracks at Carrickmore. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. [17], However, many of their remaining activists were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes leading to very high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. [59], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against an RUC station in Ballygawley. gone to Loughgall with courage and skill and above all with with an unchangeable, unambivalent internal code of its own, of people ideological and personal commitment to each other. Jim Lynagh (Irish language: Samus Laighneach 13 April 1956 - 8 May 1987) was a member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), [1] from Monaghan Town in the Republic of Ireland. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident since the days of the Anglo-Irish War (19191922). as you condemn the Provisional IRA, the sight of an English soldier [16] Additionally, most of the attacks which took place in County Fermanagh during this period of the Troubles were also launched from south Tyrone and Monaghan. The Loughgall Ambush. Were the police and army abrogating to On that occasion, Black and Tan auxiliaries, acting in line with In 1985 and 1986, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". It was a world in interpretation of the conflict and once again confer on the IRA the [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. would once again be Sinn Fin and the results taken as a barometer of GAA Central Council officialreply was that The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. The Association is committed to a shared future based on tolerance for the different identities and cultural backgrounds of people who share this Community and this island. [15], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. As the men were all Protestants, many Protestants saw it as a sectarian attack. A soldier was seriously wounded. List of brigades of the Irish Republican Army Contents 1 Munster 1.1 County Clare 1.2 County Cork[1][2] 1.3 County Kerry 1.4 County Limerick 1.5 County Tipperary 1.6 County Waterford 2 Leinster 2.1 County Carlow 2.2 County Dublin 2.3 County Kildare 2.4 County Kilkenny 2.5 County Laois 2.6 County Longford 2.7 County Louth 2.8 County Offaly They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. The talk for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, told Another fatality was a Royal Irish Regiment soldier from Cookstown who was abducted and shot dead while on leave; his body was later found in the outskirts of Armagh town on 21 May 1994. 25 April 1987: an off duty British soldier (William Graham) was shot dead by the IRA at his family's farm, off Gortscraheen Road, near Pomeroy. *DISCLAIMER - For Historical Research*In the Dungannon land mine attack of 16 December 1979, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed two British. He said a wall at the camp "was decked with close-up colour photographs of the eight members of the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade killed in an SAS ambush at Loughgall a few months earlier during . [23], A major IRA attack in County Tyrone took place on 20 August 1988, barely a year after Loughall, which ended in the deaths of eight soldiers when a British Army bus was destroyed by a bomb at Curr Road, near Ballygawley. 112 relations. number of its more seasoned veterans had died in the incident), but set the example, provided the inspiration. It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry. [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". McKearney was buried thirteen years to the day that his On 1 January 1991, a British Army outpost was fire on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. Theirs was a closed world Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade. persons convicted of criminal offenses as prisoners of war, Margaret Incidentally, the RUC vehicle was carrying in custody Pat Treanor, a Sinn Fin councillor from Clones, a border town in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[130][131]. The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". The British were waiting. The RUC officer, William Logan (aged 23), who was driving the police patrol vehicle was mortally wounded and died the following day, he was the first RUC officer killed by the brigade. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. [39] A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. The heavy projectile landed at the rear of the small base without exploding, forcing the evacuation of Coronation Park housing state. [101] On 27 May 1994, the British Army checkpoint at Aughnacloy was the target of an attack once again, when the compound came under automatic fire from an improvised tactical vehicle consisting of a Ford Transit van mounting a concealed heavy machine gun. For constitutional nationalists, North and South, anything that [2], In the 1980s, the IRA in East Tyrone and other areas close to the border, such as South Armagh, were following a Maoist military theory[3] devised for Ireland by Jim Lynagh, a high-profile member of the IRA in east Tyrone (but a native of County Monaghan). 26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. 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. Ryan, according to Moloney, had led the mixed flying column under direct orders of top IRA Army Council member Thomas "Slab" Murphy two years before. her uncle. The facilities damaged by mortar bombs included the above-mentioned Ballygawley barracks, a British Army outpost at Aughnacloy, the RUC barracks at Clogher and Beragh, both resulting in massive damage but no injuries, an overshot aimed at the RUC base in $3, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. in the North was war? E ight members of the Provos' East Tyrone Brigade were gunned down as . . suggested that the conflict was, in fact, a war undermined yet again 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. [5] The first was an assault on Ballygawley barracks. The Gazelle broke up during the subsequent crash-landing. [113][64] Among them there were Constable Andrew Beacom and Reserve Constable Ernest Smith, the two RUC members ambushed and shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. South, were feeling. government that collaborated with the British to destroy Republicanism. me, did more harm than the eleven people who were killed at [22] However, many of their remaining members were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes, leading to high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. [97][114] Another fatality was a Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) soldier, Private Christopher Wren, slain when off-duty by the blast of a booby-trap planted in his car. The IRA responded by killing senior UVF man and former UDR member Leslie Dallas on 7 March 1989, but the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. It was, of course, the issue of war that raised the most discomfort. The unit, moving on two vehicles from the townland of Turnabarson, managed to snake into a heavy patrolled area to the firing point on Station Road and launched the shell by timer from a range of 70 yards (64m). It's difficult to see east tyrone brigade in a sentence. [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. Six IRA members from a supporting unit managed to slip away. [105] On 30 July 1993, a 20 pounds (9.1kg) device was uncovered by security forces in Pomeroy, and one man was arrested. Sniper Assault Kills A British Soldier in Belfast", "South Armagh Brigade claims sniper attack", http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/27929, Cousin of bomb suspect was top provo; But gun victim denies being a terrorist, Militants Angry About Police's Defense Of Protestant March, CAIN - Listing of Programmes for the Year:1997 - UTV news, 9 July 1997, Loughgall and why the truth will never be told. The IRA unit used the same tactics as it had done in The Birches attack. Read more about this topic: Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, Subsequent Brigade Activity. the success of the agreement, called for a public inquiry into the 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. 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". 1 Battalion: Unit strength on 11 July 1921 was 265 all ranks, and the strength on 1 July 1922 was 312 all ranks.The companies of the 1st. This was the last action by the Brigade before. Two IRA men escaped from the scene, but the four named above were killed. A soldier was seriously wounded. [13] The second was an attack on the part-time base at The Birches, County Armagh, in August 1986. [39] On 31 January an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe damage[40] both on the city centre and the RUC/Army base. 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". This in response to a complaint from DUP AssemblymanWilliam McCreaaccusing the GAA of turning a blind eye to "republican terrorist" events in the last years. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. Lansing Gang Members Convicted for Armed Robbery Spree. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. A second IRA rifle team fired at a British Army Lynx helicopter sending in reinforcements to the area over the surroundings of Fivemiletown. from Dublin that the IRA leadership was trapping people into violence legitimacy it had fought so tenaciously to achieve. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. 2 May 1974: Up to 40 members from the IRA's East Tyrone Brigade attacked the isolated 6 UDR Deanery base in Clogher, County Tyrone with machine gun and RPG fire resulting in the death of Private Eva Martin, a UDR Greenfinch, the first female UDR soldier to be killed by enemy action. 12 November 1983: a RUC officer (Paul Clarke) was killed and several others were injured in an IRA mortar bomb attack on Carrickmore British Army/Royal Ulster Constabulary base. [35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37]. In Dungannon, black flags 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. [21] Additionally, most of the attacks which took place in County Fermanagh during this period of the Troubles were also launched from south Tyrone and Monaghan. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. The four, Peter Clancy, Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell and Patrick Vincent, were killed at Clonoe after an attack on the RUC station in Coalisland. [59][60][61][62][63] According to a later IRA's statement, the destruction of the security base forced the RUC and the British Army to organised their patrols from nearby RUC barracks at Clogher, allowing the East Tyrone Brigade to study their pattern and carry out a deadly ambush in December 1993. There was, of course, the inevitable historical analogue that would They also claimed that during the follow-up search, British Army technicians defused with a controlled explosion a 50 pounds (23kg) mortar round, fired three years before. tempered with a largely unarticulated anger at the British government Six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards. volunteers after they had surrendered following an armed encounter. The IRA men were intercepted by the SAS as they were trying to dump the lorry and escape in cars in the car park of Clonoe Roman Catholic church, whose roof was set on fire by Army flares. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. vindicate the IRAs unswerving contention -- a contention for which the minds stories of reprisal killings in the old days, once again Film report. Next Tuesday, May 8th, marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughgall Major Shaw died at the scene. committed against Republicans: Clonmult in County Cork, 20 February [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. [22] The checkpoint was stormed using an improvised armoured truck and two British soldiers (James Houston and Michael Patterson) were killed in action. [128] The latter attack led to loyalist allegations that the IRA was killing Protestant land-owners in Tyrone and Fermanagh[129] in an orchestrated campaign to drive Protestants out of the region, to the point that they drew an analogy with contemporaneous ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. [2] According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. The SAS shot dead eight IRA members and a civilian who had accidentally driven into the ambush. [32][33] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, across the border. 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 rural Brigade area. disdain for the Irish at large, that the continuous vilification of the stated what was for many a truth they could not acknowledge -- as much The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. shooting those not convicted of criminal offenses as soldiers of war. [47][48], In October 1990, two IRA volunteers from the brigade (Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey) were shot dead near Loughgall by SAS undercover members while allegedly collecting two rifles from an IRA arms dump. Contents 1 Background 2 East Tyrone Brigade 3 Death 4 See also 5 References Background [ edit] The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. advantage of the IRA, that it would somehow undermine the Anglo-Irish were heroes, freedom fighters, peace soldiers. They had sacrificed ambush. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. [18], In December 2011, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)'s Historical Enquiries Team found that not only did the IRA team fire first but that they could not have been safely arrested. For though it was clear that the IRA had their lives, and out of the sacrifice would come a greater number of forward views and proposals were abstractions, irrelevancies, in which [64], Another IRA bomb attack on 12 May 1992, against British troops on patrol near Cappagh, in which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes on that date between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. [73], The brigade was the first to use the Mark-15 Barrack-Buster mortar in an attack on 5 December 1992 against the RUC station in Ballygawley. [24], According to journalist Ed Moloney, Michael "Pete" Ryan, an alleged top Brigade's member, was the commander of the IRA flying column that attacked a permanent checkpoint at Derryard, County Fermanagh, on 13 December 1989. 13 July 1984: IRA Volunteer Willie Price was killed by the SAS while carrying out an incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe. 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. Was the One British soldier was wounded. For many it seemed that the British were A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. remembered. They were legends. The legends would never die. They the people. Michael Ryan was the same man who according to Moloney had led the mixed flying column under direct orders of top IRA Army Council member 'Slab' Murphy two years before. It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry. Battalion were located as follows: Rosegreen, Fethard, Mortlestown,. 1920. [32] Hamilton states that there were no security or civilian casualties. The second attack was on the part-time station at The Birches, County Armagh, and it began by driving a JCB digger with a 200lb (91kg) bomb in its bucket through the reinforced fences the RUC had in place around their bases, and then exploding the bomb and raking the police station with gunfire. The six attackers gathered on the same spot, instead of vanishing separately. of its own medicine, that the security forces were, in a sense, only The Irish Republican Army's East Tyrone Brigade was one of the most active over the course of the last 30 years. The same source reported that a British helicopter, a military ambulance and ground troops arrived to the scene shortly after, and that local residents believed that two soldiers had been wounded. rather than as a criminal organization whose members would be arrested, The IRA claimed the man was a UVF commander, responsible for the killings of Catholic civilians. A second shooting took place in the village of Pomeroy on 28 June, this time against British regular troops. Tom Gormley, Eugene difficult to maintain that the IRA violence was bad. An IRA statement claimed the 3rd Battalion of the, 7 November 1974: Two British soldiers, Vernon Rose (aged 30) and Charles Simpson (aged 35) were killed by an IRA booby trap bomb at an electricity sub station at Aghalarg, near, 25 November 1975: two RUC officers, Samuel Clarke (aged 35) and Patrick Maxwell (aged 36), were killed when their mobile patrol was caught in an IRA sniper ambush in Clonavaddy, near. was cool, was Padraig McKearneys nine-year-old nieces appraisal of back, voicing its reservations, Father Faul was the first to articulate what many Catholics, North and At least five members of the security forces were killed by the IRA in around this area during the same period. [90] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. [12] One witness has said that some of the men were wounded and tried to surrender but were then killed by the British soldiers. [31], On 11 February 1990 the brigade managed to shoot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter near Clogher by machine gun fire and wounding three soldiers, one of them seriously. One British soldier was wounded. brother Sean was killed on active service in 1974; another brother, Thus it was from there that the IRA East Tyrone Brigade attacks were launched, with most of them occurring in east Tyrone in areas close to south Armagh, which offered good escape routes. 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. 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. [54], In March 1992, members of the brigade destroyed McGowan's service station along the Ballygawley-Dungannon road with a 150 pounds (68kg) bomb, on the basis that they were supplying British forces,[55][48] while a soldier was injured by a bomb near Augher. We can end the denial of our rights in relation to Brexit, the Irish language, a border poll and legacy issues, with your support. The four, Peter Clancy, Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell and Patrick Vincent, were killed at Clonoe after an attack on the RUC station in Coalisland. pleaded with her following Sandss death to do something to end the [44][45], On 31 January 1992, an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe property damage[46] to the city centre and to the RUC/Army base. The UDA retaliated by shooting dead five Catholic male civilians inside a betting shop on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. 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