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. Three other RUC officers who were in the building fled through a back door. However, as their attack was underway, the IRA unit was ambushed by a Special Air Service (SAS) unit. [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). [21]
[34] 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. [68][69] The men were set free 18 months later under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. To counter it, the British Army deployed the so-called COPs (close observation platoons), small infantry sections acting as undercover units, a tactic introduced by Major General Dick Trant in 1977. ", Timeline of South Armagh Sniper operations and activity from March 1990 – April 1997. 16 April 1997 - A group of sixteen undercover SAS members restrained four IRA members, part of one of the two sniper teams which operated in South Armagh and gave them to the RUC, after tracking the IRA men to a farm complex. [325], In May 1996, the Federal Security Service, Russia's internal security service, accused Estonia of arms smuggling, and claimed that the IRA had bought weapons from arms dealers linked to Estonia's volunteer defence force, Kaitseliit. 30 July – Martin Malone, an 18-year-old unarmed Catholic civilian, is shot dead by a UDR patrol in the Callan Street area. [127][130] The old guard leadership of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Dáithí Ó Conaill, and Billy McKee were criticised by a younger generation of activists following the ceasefire, and their influence in the IRA slowly declined. [6] The majority of soldiers shot dead in 1972 (the bloodiest year of the conflict in Northern Ireland) fell victim to IRA snipers. one responsible for the east part of South Armagh, around Dromintee, the other for the west, in the area surrounding Cullyhanna. [7] About 180 British soldiers, Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers and Her Majesty's Prison Service prison staff members were killed in this way between 1971 and 1991. [314] The backbone of IRA support in the United States was the Irish Northern Aid Committee, better known as NORAID, who in addition to raising money for the families of IRA prisoners also secretly funneled money and weapons to the IRA. The workers' bus was stopped and the one Catholic worker taken aside before the others were killed. 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. Sniper Assault Kills A British Soldier in Belfast", "Three to be interviewed for PSNI chief constable post", "Thousands join peace protest in Greysteel", "Advocacy for Innocent Victims Daily Posts", "Off-duty soldier killed by IRA booby-trap bomb: Car attack follows", Listing of Programmes for the Year: 1993 (BBC News, 26 April 1993 and UTV News, 29 April 1993), "British soldier shot dead – Massive Strabane landmine", "South Armagh Brigade claims sniper attack", Cousin of bomb suspect was top Provo; But gun victim denies being a terrorist, "Militants Angry About Police's Defense Of Protestant March".
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. On 28 July 2005 the IRA announced an end to the armed campaign, stating that it would work to achieve its aims solely by peaceful political means, with volunteers to dump all weapons and to end all paramilitary activity. 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. Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. This was the last action of the IRA Armagh Sniper teams. Shortly afterwards, the Army abandoned road transport in South Armagh."
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