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In October 2006, Hughes was pictured on the front page of the Irish News wearing an eye patch after undergoing an operation to save his sight, which had been badly damaged due to his hunger strike. [23] At some point before his death he had a heart attack, and although he received a bypass surgery, his condition continued to deteriorate thereafter.
Raymond McCreesh (Irish: Réamonn Mac Raois, 25 February 1957 – 21 May 1981) was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attempting to ambush a British Army observation post.
Funeral services for three of the four people killed in a single-car crash near Armagh last weekend have taken place on Good Friday. Marina Crilly, 24, Emma Mallon, 22, Philip Mitchell, 27, and ...
Margaret Perry was a 26-year-old woman from Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland who was abducted on 21 June 1991. [1] After a tip from the IRA, her body was found buried across the border in a field in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, on 30 June 1992. [2] She had been beaten to death. Her murder has never been solved. [3]
Paul Quinn (1986 – 20 October 2007) was a young man from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, who was murdered in 2007.His family subsequently accused the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) of his murder, though no one has ever been convicted in relation to his death.
John Francis Green (18 December 1946 [1] – 10 January 1975), was a leading member of the North Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. [2] He was killed in a farmhouse outside Castleblayney, County Monaghan, by members of the Mid-Ulster Brigade of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
Patrick Joseph Kelly (19 March 1957 – 8 May 1987), was an Irish commander of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army during the mid-1980s until his death in a Special Air Service ambush at Loughgall, County Armagh in May 1987.
Ultimately, after just over 200 days, the British government met their demands, and the sisters were transferred to Armagh, Northern Ireland—though it was more drawn out than the series depicts.