It loves the unrepentant and boastful IRA murderers and bombers and their political front way more than it ever loved a single innocent IRA murder victim. A typed statement has appeared on a wall in Derry signed by 'T O . In November 2012, prison officer David Black, 52, was gunned down while driving to work at Maghaberry high-security jail. 28 January 1990: a civilian (Charles Love) was killed when he was hit by debris when an IRA bomb exploded on Derry's walls during a march to commemorate Bloody Sunday. The Southern Command, which covers 21 counties, has a much smaller number of personnel. Whether the motive was sectarian or just criminal, police say the New IRA is the "primary focus" of their investigation after an off-duty officer was shot in Northern Ireland. [3] 12 June 1973: two car bombs planted by a unit of the Derry Brigade resulted in the deaths of six civilians in Coleraine. "So long as Britain persists in its denial of national and democratic rights in Ireland the IRA will have to continue to assert those rights. The supporters remained in what became known as the Official IRA and the dissenters split off and formed the Provisional IRA. posts, comments and submissions available. They do not recognise the Irish State and believe that the last legitimate Dil was in 1919 and that the only way to remove Britain from the six counties is through guns and bombs. McFadden, from Glasgow, eventually managed to join the New IRAs political allies, Saoradh, and sit on its national executive. There was zero historical interest in Derry in pacifist protest or pacifism in general and even less in communisms various visages. Bassalat was denied bail at Dungannon magistrates court in Tyrone. Many people witnessed this activity, including other off duty IRA volunteers friends of mine who were shocked at the breach of the generally understood IRA promise not to engage in actions during Civil Rights marches. It was formed in 1997 after militants opposing peace negotiations split from the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). advertising. Bemused Dubliners looked on at the spectacle of the mismatched and poorly drilled marchers stomping their way up the countrys main street. The New IRA's power base is generally believed to be in the Creggan area of Derry, where Lyra McKee was murdered, but it reaches further than that and goes out into communities across North and . Over 5,000 readers like you already have stepped up. Content copyright Journal Media Ltd. 2023 Registered in Dublin, registration number: document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Author and speaker, Shane Paul ODoherty, here examines the activities of the IRA before, during and after what is known as the [Irish] peace process with particular reference to the IRAs unacknowledged Human Rights atrocities and victims. McFaddens former acquaintance said: About a year ago I was in County Donegal and out of curiosity I drove up to the spot where Denis Donaldson was killed. 7 July 1972 - Two British Army captains were captured & arrested while off duty by an IRA patrol in Derry's Bogside area. It claims members of the group carried. Reflecting on 30 years of conflict as Northern Ireland marks its centenary, Elliot, from Derry, says the IRA leadership should have been ended the violence in 1987 since it is now clear that. On the 16th March 1988, Milltown Cemetery was the host of the enormous funeral held for these three IRA members killed by British Special Forces in Gibraltar. He bled to death after one of the shots severed an artery. The armed group has been linked to the murders of journalist Lyra McKee in 2019, Pc Ronan Kerr in 2011, and prison officers David Black in 2012 and Adrian Ismay in 2016. Derry people gave the impression for many years of believing in John Humes creed that no political aim was worth a single drop of blood or a single human life, but that was just another lie. Forensic officers at the scene of a New IRA car bombing outside Derry courthouse in 2019. The security forces described his death as a "freak accident" as he was a quarter of a mile from the bomb, which was targeting security forces. RHC members later assassinated Elliott for killing her. The highest position was occupied by the Brigade's officer commanding, the top IRA ranking in the city. In January it carried out a car bomb attack outside the courthouse in Derry. "invaded the platform and took over the meeting" News images provided by Press Association See: 1973 Coleraine bombings [4] Dominic McGlinchy was another member of the unit who would go on to make his own mark on the conflict, first a Volunteer in the Provisional IRA and then as leader of the Chief of Staff of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in the early 1980s. The IRA attack 72 hours before Bloody Sunday on policemen on Creggan Hill which killed two police officers, one Catholic and one Protestant, and led by Martin McGuinness firing his favourite weapon at the time, a Thompson machine gun was the IRAs definite marker that the upcoming Civil Rights March was not going to be allowed to be the cutting edge of anything. Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Luck ran out in Omagh on Wednesday night, leaving a high-ranking PSNI officer badly injured after an attack that took place in front of his son. Love was a member of. While in prison he turned against the republican movement and has become one of its greatest critics. The 62-year-old . He played a central role in MI5s Operation Arbacia, which culminated at the end of this summer with the arrest of nine suspected leading New IRA members, all of whom have been charged with directing acts of terrorism. Joe Coyle (above) and Tommy Carlin were veteran IRA members in 1970. . The unverified statement, signed 'T O'Neill', a signature that has been used by the 'New IRA' in the past, was posted on a wall in Derry at the weekend. The Strange Case of Witness O at the Birmingham Pub Bombings Inquest, Thomas Ashe Mellon III the new Martin McGuinness. Bishop Edward Daly repeatedly told me over the years that he would never believe Martin McGuinness over Rose Hegarty in relation to McGuinness false promises that alleged informer Frankie Hegarty would not be harmed by the IRA if he returned to Derry. The IRA intimidated the Derry Peace People leader Margaret Doherty out of her home in the Bogside, The IRA even discussed murdering another Bogside resident, local Member of Parliament and SDLP leader John Hume. No injuries were reported, but 30 families were evacuated from the area as army technical experts performed forensic examinations on the abandoned vehicle. The AR-18 rifle was found to be very well suited to the IRA fighters' purposes as its small size and folding stock meant . Devlin, who was 23 at the time, was arrested and sentenced to six months in prison the previous December for her involvement in the Battle of the Bogside in 1969. Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide He was recognised by local people in the Waterside who could not publicly identify him for fear of being murdered themselves by the IRA as informers. Two years after Bloody Sunday, Bishop Edward Daly officiated at the funeral of his former St. Columbs College friend, Derryman and Catholic Judge Rory Conaghan, murdered by the IRA in Belfast on the same morning that the IRA murdered Protestant Resident Magistrate Robert McBirney also in Belfast. Michael Collins, (born October 16, 1890, Woodfield, Sam's Cross, County Cork, Irelanddied August 22, 1922, Bal-na-mBlath, Cork), hero of the Irish struggle for independence, best remembered for his daring strategy in directing the campaign of guerrilla warfare during the intensification of the Anglo-Irish War (1919-21). Meanwhile, in 2020 a senior republican said New IRA threats against Sinn Fein were . The IRA members involved in Patsys murder and mass murder generally have settled into bourgeois businesses and landlordship in Derry warmly supported and admired by locals. Tales of a Soviet Russian submarine that landed weapons in Lough Swilly were around in 1970 and 1971. He would later serve as a member of Fianna Fil during the 1930s. The defendants are due to face a non-jury trial in 2021. The IRA movement could not tolerate a situation where its would-be teenage volunteers whom it required to fight its cause would be brainwashed and diverted from the true IRA struggle by foreign notions of pacifism. In the late 1960s there was a certain novelty about the Civil Rights Movement in Derry because the Civil Rights movement had to be imported into Derry City from outside. Alamy Stock Photo The violence, sparked by police. Neighbours had to pull me away because I was trying to get in to reach them. In a statement at the time of the group's formation signed off by the "IRA Army Council", they claimed Irish people had been "sold a phoney peace, rubber-stamped by a token legislature in Stormont". Youve done your bit to make murder respectable.]. Eamonn Mallie unfairly attacks England bomber Martina Anderson, The National Union of Journalists and the Pat Finucane Centre. Likewise on August 16th in the town of Derry, the IRA create bonfires to burn British and . In November, Gilmour's father was abducted by the IRA. IRA members who supported the treaty formed the nucleus of the Irish National Army founded by the IRA leader Michael Collins. 23 May 1994: an IRA team used a motor boat stolen from Foyle Search and Rescue to cross. 8 March 1989: two British soldiers were killed and six others badly wounded when their vehicle struck a massive IRA landmine on the Buncrana Road in Derry. Though the scene was a comical one on first glance, when reporters took a closer look into the crowd, there were more sinister elements present. PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell in November 2020 New IRA claiming responsibility . Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times. Love was a member of. . There is currently a significant sharing of information between the PSNI and garda for instance, on Wednesday night garda moved armed units into border crossing zones as the PSNI warned them the gunmen were suspected to be heading south. ", 8 March 1989: two British soldiers were killed and six others badly wounded when their vehicle struck a massive IRA landmine on the, 28 January 1990: a civilian (Charles Love) was killed when he was hit by debris when an IRA bomb exploded on Derry's walls during a march to commemorate Bloody Sunday. Several men are currently awaiting trial charged with the murder. The Hooded Men Victims or Human Rights Offenders? The New IRA has purportedly claimed responsibility for the shooting of a senior off-duty PSNI officer. IRA Commemorations & Sinn Fin Cheerleaders, Gerry Adams and GOD Why the IRA hasnt Repented. Bassalat claims he only made contact with republicans in Northern Ireland because he thought he was going over to speak at a Palestinian solidarity meeting in County Tyrone. The New IRA has admitted one of its members was responsible for killing journalist Lyra McKee (29) who was shot dead on April 18, 2019 while watching a riot in the Creggan area of Derry. For earlier groups such as the, List of members of the Irish Republican Army, The Official Irish Republican Army & Post-Independence: 1922-present. The highest position was occupied by the Brigade's officer commanding, the top IRA ranking in the city. The elderly Nationalist Party was going nowhere even if it had been offered somewhere to go. Derry had a taste of the IRA way and preferred it. Surely the murders of Judge Conaghan and Mr. McBirney must bring home to us the fact that our country has now reached a state where it can afford only one division, the distinction between those who believe in such deeds and those who do not. Beneath him was the ten-men Derry Brigade Command, made of experienced IRA volunteers, among them one or two prominent Sinn Fin politicians. The statement reads: "The Irish Republican Army claim . Open Letter to Professor Peter Finn, St. Marys University College, re Hosting the Hypocritical Pat Finucane Annual Lecture, Sinn Fins new Ethel Lynch Cumann in Derry and the Cult of Lies. The dissidents in Derry no longer trust the ones in Belfast and Tyrone who brought McFadden into their organisation. Ex-IRA bomber who got 30 life sentences has words of advice for young dissidents He was from a middle-class family in Londonderry, joined the IRA at 15 and received 30 life sentences for a. Just came across this site.real eye opener.tks. More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal. It then grew into the New IRA although there are small pockets of the Real IRA that did not merge with the new group. The gun the girl is showing is ArmaLite AR-18. 23 May 1994: the IRA used a motor boat stolen from Foyle Search and Rescue Service to cross. LAST UPDATE What the group has done and where it sits in the IRA's history, Masked members of the Real IRA at a Republican Easter commemoration ceremony at Creggan cemetery in Londonderry, Police say the New IRA, is the primary focus of their investigation, A policeman patrols the area near where a man was shot dead in Londonderry in 2013. The Clergy as Community Members Father Shields and the Magilligan Co-operative. 14 December 1993: two soldiers were wounded by a trip wire bomb blast in a fence at a railway bordering. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible Raymond McCreesh IRA Volunteer Not a Criminal? 26 June 1970: three members and two young girls (the daughters of one of the volunteers) were killed when an IRA bomb prematurely exploded in a house in Creggan, Derry. In January and February, PSNI officers carried out search operations in various locations targeted at the membership of the New IRA. The Derry Brigade IRA Sinn Fin has grown immensely wealthy and capitalist on the British payroll system, mired in nepotism, cronyism and alleged financial corruption, with millionaire members jetting off to Dubai to holiday on yachts owned by pals such as the wealthy Royal Navy Officer friend of Raymond McCartney. Not all agreed. The 46-year-old was among 11 New IRA supporters, including Mellon, convicted last week of taking part in an illegal Easter 2018 parade through the Creggan. IRA Murders of Human Rights Lawyers & Judges, Brian Feeney Is Dead & Coffee with the IRA, Legacy, the IRA and Victims Part II & Quiz. The IRA have revealed for the first time why they shot dead one of Ireland's most notorious criminals, The General, Martin Cahill. Thomas Ashe Mellon and Fergal Melaugh were. What is the New IRA? The first use of IRA dates back to the 1919-21 Irish War of Independence. McFadden just shook his head and then said: Well he should have known what he was getting himself into when he became a tout [informer]. Several other RUC officers were injured. In recent years the New IRA superseded Oglaigh na hireann as the most lethal of the dissident organisations. The real antagonism between the IRA leadership and the Civil Rights movement is captured in a Guardian press report from Belfast when IRA members forcefully crashed a Civil Rights platform and took over the meeting. In March 2022, the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland was lowered from "severe" to "substantial", the first reduction in 12 years. He was a traitor. This guy McFadden must have had some brass neck to say a thing like that knowing that he too was an informer.. Get the day's headlines delivered directly to your inbox. Your email address will not be published. Given the danger that attack posed to the wider community, just like as happened in the Creggan, PSNI chief constable George Hamilton called it "crazy" and "completely reckless". Well that's what happens to Erin and the family, as they attem. Keeping pace with the marchers and standing at the GPO were old former Provisional IRA men. For Belfast, he names . The printed statement, which was signed "T. O'Neill . Tue Apr 23 2019 - 18:22. Henry Hensey McKenna, can be seen in the picture below, grey hair, behind the forward gunman at Jim Lynagh's funeral in 1987 as it passed through Emyvale . The New IRA claimed to have carried out the bomb attack. The political fall out for the New IRA is clear with political leaders and communities joining together in abhorrenceat the incident. Consumer confidence nudges up - but is it a blip? For 30 years between the late 1960s and 1998, Northern Ireland was rocked by The Troubles. Lawyers for the defendants have raised issues about entrapment and the reported role of a state agent. On the night of the explosion, they were attempting to make an incendiary bomb in response to the arrest of Mid Ulster MP, Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey). A look at the paramilitary organisations history highlights both the fractured nature of dissident groups but also its murderous focus on people, including PSNI officers, who are the living embodiment of what they term crown forces. As thousands of mourners gathered to pay their respects, a number of hand grenades were thrown into the crowd by a UDA paramilitary named Michael Stone. The Derry Brigade along with the Belfast Brigade, East Tyrone Brigade and the South Armagh Brigade were the four most active IRA Brigade areas during the conflict between 1969 and 1998.[2]. Raymond McCartney, Eamonn MacDermott & the Murder of Detective Constable Patrick McNulty. Security forces have said there has been intelligence circulating that the group was moving to a more aggressive targeting of security forces. The New IRA strategy is becoming clear it is focused on PSNI officers. It has been linked to four murders including the. Members of the local age friendly community are being invited to take part in a consultation for an Age-Friendly Strategy and Action Plan 2022-2025 for Derry and Strabane. The security forces described his death as a "freak accident" as he was a quarter of a mile from the bomb, which was targeting security forces. No-one recalls the IRAs sectarian murder of unarmed Protestant Jeffrey Agate, MD of Du Pont, whose company gave some of the best paid jobs to Derry. He was shot by the IRA in 1994. Among the events will be a commemoration marking the 50th anniversary which will be held through Derry Sinn Fins Facebook page and on Twitter and YouTube. VICE News reporter Alex Miller speaks to members of the Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD), who formed the coalition with the Real IRA, and meets supporters as young as 13 who are being. Jody is held captive . There are around 600 files in the Battalion and Company Rolls series. The deaths of the two McCool children were also the first females deaths in the Troubles although they were not the first child deaths. The Irish Republican Army (IRA), . For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away. As well as the arrests and the eventual presence of McFadden in the witness box to give evidence, his main achievement has been to sow paranoia and distrust within what is left of the New IRA, the senior security source said. Adrian Ismay died two weeks after a bomb exploded under his van in Belfast. Pic: AP, A member of the Saoradh Colour Party at a 2022 commemoration of the Easter Rising, Lyra McKee was covering riots in Londonderry when she was shot dead, Children ran in 'sheer terror' as detective was shot, Sinn Fin condemns Omagh shooting 'outright and utterly', claimed to have carried out the bomb attack, bomb was placed near the car of a female police officer. She appealed the conviction but it was upheld in June 1970. This is a timeline of actions by the Irish republican paramilitary groups referred to as the Real Irish Republican Army ('Real IRA') and New Irish Republican Army ('New IRA'). The IRA rejected claims that the killing was sectarian, stating: "The man's religion is of no interest to us. The three IRA mens names were the first to be added to the Provisionals' Roll of Dead and the republican movement in Derry has also used the anniversary of their deaths as the date for its main commemoration of all IRA members who died. Real, Provisional, New - what's the difference between the IRAs? This rhetoric is commonplace online but has also made it onto the streets. Thomas McCool died along with his daughters, Bernadette and Carole. Members of Republican Sinn Fin stand on Dublins OConnell Street during their Easter Rising commemoration on Monday. There is a bedrock of sullen, dour and unshakeable support for IRA actions that infects many and it is this stored energy that feeds new young IRA volunteers in 2019. Beneath him was the ten-men Derry Brigade Command, made of experienced IRA volunteers, among them one or two prominent Sinn Fin politicians. It adopted this name after the breakaway of the more militant Provisional IRA in late 1969. . [1], The Command Staff, through their Officer Commanders, operated active service units in the four republican strongholds of the city: Bogside/Brandywell district, Creggan, Waterside and Shantallow. . The 1992 movie details the kidnap of a Black British soldier, Jody (played by Forrest Whitaker), by members of the Provisional IRA, including volunteer Fergus (Stephen Rea). The Dublin march took place just days after alleged members of the group murdered Lyra McKee at a riot in Derry. Having been given a taste of IRA actions in 1970 and 1971, Derrys sleeping underbelly was willing to embrace a daily televised IRA campaign (which it had decidedly rejected 15 years earlier when the IRAs Border Campaign failed to garner support) in preference to a relatively boring Civil Rights campaign. A lengthy press release posted on the Saoradh website on 8 February this year criticised what it called the normalisation process after community policing officers visited a school in Derry. The South Derry Battalion became the Derry Brigade (sometimes referred to as the South Derry Brigade) while also absorbing battalions based in northeastern County Donegal and northern County Londonderry. services and Derry IRA man killed on 'active service' to be remembered 50 years from his death John Starrs was 19-years-old when he was killed. There are accusations of other informers in their ranks now. It is the most dangerous of the dissident republican groups, made up of young inexperienced members and those old enough to have been involved in violence during the days of the Provisional IRA. The release said: These PR stunts, which have been becoming more frequent, serve only the normalisation of the Crown Force agenda which is being pushed on us and again, our children, by the Catholic Church, Sinn Fin, the SDLP. The New IRA has purportedly claimed responsibility in a letter posted in Derry for the shooting of off-duty PSNI officer John Caldwell in Omagh, Co Tyrone. Former police officer infiltrated New IRAs high command over last eight years, it has emerged. Derry had only ever given rise to the lumpen and paralysed Nationalist Party led by Eddie McAteer, whose Belfast-based brother, Hugh, had been Chief of Staff of the IRA. Another bomb attack occurred a few days after the attempted murder of two PSNI officers in November 2022, when a viable device was left outside a police station in Derry. [A subsequent toadying Bishop of Derry, Antrim-born Donal McKeown, disgracefully reversed Bishop Edward Dalys prohibition on paramilitary displays in Derry churches when he granted State Funeral Honours to the very unrepentant leader of the IRA, Martin McGuinness whose headstone proudly proclaimed that he lived and died as an IRA Volunteer, contrary to his years of lies.]. Thomas McCool (40), Joseph Coyle (40) and Thomas Carlin (55) along with McCools young daughters, Bernadette (9) and Carole (3) were also the first IRA men to die in Derry during the Troubles. The New IRA claimed responsibility for his murder. There is no campaign by conscientious Derry citizens to boycott the businesses of IRA members who engaged in mass murder of their fellow civilians over 30 years. After recent IRA bombings and shootings, residents and paramilitaries have set up checkpoints and barricades in Derry and Belfast, leading to more no-go areas, and rejecting civil authority. 1 minute ago. THE family of former IRA man Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt say they have "cut all ties" with the republican movement following a row over adding his name to a 'Roll of Honour' in Derry. A new video marking the anniversary will also be launched at the event. there was a car bomb attack at the Bishop Street Courthouse in Derry, for which the New IRA are the "main line of enquiry". Stephen Fuller (d. 1984), a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence and fought with Anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War (1922-23). New IRA boss Thomas Mellon demanded three nights of hijackings in Derry city in response to the arrest of a teenager who is close to one of his lieutenants. In his homily at the funeral Mass, Bishop Daly said the following: The death we mourn today is not just the act of an individual but of an organisation. The two officers were interrogated and released unharmed 18 hours later. 23 March 1982: another British coal ship, 1 April 1982: two undercover British soldiers (Michael Burbridge and Michael Ward) were killed in an IRA sniper ambush shortly after leaving Rosemount, 28 August 1986: Mervyn Bell, a civilian contractor to the British Army, was shot dead by the IRA while sitting in stationary car outside his father's workplace, council depot, Strand Road, Derry. and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, In 1998, he published a book, . The real antagonism between the IRA leadership and the Civil Rights' movement is captured in a 'Guardian' press report from Belfast when IRA members forcefully crashed a Civil Rights' platform and took over the meeting. Since the killing of Lyra McKee, Saoradh has come into public focus in a way it did not do so before, particularly in the wake of Easter commemoration marches in Cork and Dublin. Derry City loves the IRA movement, including its Sinn Fein front and all of its many lies, to death. There are still different named groups such as Arm na Poblachta, Oglaigh na hEireann and others, but it is the New IRA that is now seen as the main player. Read more:Children ran in 'sheer terror' as detective was shotSinn Fin condemns Omagh shooting 'outright and utterly'. The IRA later did everything it could to stamp out the movement of women and mothers that became known as The Peace People anybody remember Mairead Corrigan-Maguire and Betty Williams and their ill-fated Nobel Peace Prize cash? The New IRA is distinct from the Provisional IRA, the Republican paramilitaries who fought in The Troubles. Meanwhile, in 2020 a senior republican said New IRA threats against Sinn Fein were . Derry was not a slum, but it has become a political slum since the populace has embraced the unrepentant murderers, bombers and torturers of yesteryear as their political representatives in preference to the unbloody and pacifist politicians of the SDLP and other groupings. Lyra McKee was shot dead by the New IRA during attacks on police in Derry. considering the fact that McGuinness was the second-in-command of the IRA in Derry. In April 2006, Donaldson was found dead with shotgun wounds at a cottage where had been living for several months after being exposed as a longstanding British informer inside the mainstream republican movement. The IRA Volunteer involved deliberately shot her through the neck at close range in full view of witnesses and then ran away in service of the IRA and Martin McGuinness. McFadden even expressed his disdain for one of the most prominent IRA informers to be unmasked as a British agent, the former Sinn Fin chief administrator at Stormont Denis Donaldson. 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