Loughgall ambush - Wikipedia
An eight-man unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched an attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base in the village. An IRA member drove a digger with a bomb in …
Operation Flavius - Wikipedia
Operation Flavius (also referred to as the Gibraltar killings) was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special …
Coagh ambush - Wikipedia
In May 1987, an eight-man unit of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade was ambushed and shot dead by the Special Air Service (SAS) during an attack by them on a Royal Ulster …
LOUGHGALL: How the SAS wiped out '˜invincible' IRA unit in just …
Nov 14, 2016 · By the mid 1980s a successful cross-border IRA murder spree threatened to destabilise the entire state by plunging Northern Ireland into a full blown sectarian civil war, …
IRA man tells the inside story of the Loughgall attack and the SAS ...
May 8, 2017 · A member of an IRA unit who survived a deadly SAS ambush at Loughgall which claimed the lives of eight republicans has broken his silence for the first time on the 30th …
SAS - History - The Special Air Service in Northern Ireland
Jun 28, 2019 · The SAS ambush a 2-man IRA team as they attempt to access a weapons cache in a County Tyrone farm. Paul Duffy is killed. The other terrorist is wounded but manages to …
Coagh: SAS use of force in IRA ambush justified, coroner rules - BBC
Apr 11, 2024 · The coroner at the inquest into the killing of three IRA men in Coagh in County Tyrone in June 1991 has ruled that SAS soldiers were justified in their use of lethal force. …
Ambush: The War Between the SAS and the IRA Paperback
Jan 1, 1988 · If you want to know all about SAS operations against the Provisional IRA in N. Ireland and elsewhere, look no further.
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Special Air Service (SAS) - Loughgall, Northern Ireland
The SAS ambush of IRA gunmen at Loughgall has been hailed as their most successful anti-terrorist operation of the entire Troubles. When, in May 1987, British Intelligence got wind of a …
'The SAS broke the rules of war' - BBC News
Jan 28, 2009 · Peter Ryan, an IRA man ambushed and killed by the SAS, was one of more than 3,000 people killed during the Troubles. On Wednesday the Eames Bradley Report will include …