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The Troubles in Newry recounts fatalities during The Troubles in Newry, County Armagh/County Down, Northern Ireland. ... 3 April 1985 - Michael Kay (38), a member of ...
After the successful attack in Newry, the IRA carried out a further nine mortar attacks in 1985. [11] On 4 September, an RUC training centre in Enniskillen was attacked; 30 cadets narrowly escaped death due to poor intelligence-gathering by the IRA unit responsible. The cadets were expected to be in bed sleeping, but were instead eating ...
On 28 February 1985 in Newry, nine RUC officers were killed in a mortar attack on the police station. [177] [178] It was planned by the IRA's South Armagh Brigade and an IRA unit in Newry. Nine shells were fired from a mark 10 mortar which was bolted onto the back of a hijacked Ford van in Crossmaglen.
28 February – 1985 Newry mortar attack: an IRA mortar attack on the Newry RUC station killed nine officers and injured thirty-seven. [31] 7 December – Attack on Ballygawley barracks: the IRA launched an assault on the RUC barracks in Ballygawley, County Tyrone. Two RUC officers were killed and the barracks was completely destroyed. [32]
How did The Troubles start? FX/Hulu. Well, it’s a long story going back to the original Irish Republican Army (aka the IRA) that fought in the Irish War of Independence from 1919 to 1921 to free ...
Newry, Northern Ireland The Provisional IRA launches homemade mortar shells at an RUC base, killing nine police officers and wounding thirty-seven. PIRA: The Troubles: 8 March Car bombing: 80: 175: Beirut, Lebanon: Car bomb explodes, killing 80, injuring 175; allegedly planned and executed by "rogue elements" of the Central Intelligence Agency ...
Newry mortar attack – a PIRA mortar attack on an RUC base in Newry killed nine officers and wounded thirty-seven. This was the RUC's highest death toll from a single attack during the Troubles. This was the RUC's highest death toll from a single attack during the Troubles.
Lake died by suicide while in custody in 1985, while Ng was convicted in 1999 of 11 murders, including those of men, women, a young boy and an infant. The pair were known to have tortured and ...