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Operation Banner was the operational name for the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 2007, as part of the Troubles. It was the longest continuous deployment in British military history .
Burns died in 1988 when a bomb he was handling exploded prematurely. [34] In 1998, former IRA member Eamon Collins claimed that Burns had been one of those who carried out the Warrenpoint ambush. [15] No one has ever been criminally charged. [35] According to Toby Harnden, the attack "drove a wedge" between the British Army and the RUC.
Further detail: Operation Flavius; 4 July – Kenneth Stronge (46) was critically wounded by a combined SAS/RUC team as it responded to IRA gunmen firing at North Queen Street RUC station from a stolen car. Stronge, a taxi driver, was shot three times when he drove his taxi into the crossfire and died of a heart attack a few days later in hospital.
The British Army was deployed to restore order on 14 August, beginning the thirty-seven year Operation Banner, and peace lines were built to separate Catholic and Protestant districts. The Republic of Ireland 's government set up field hospitals and refugee centres near the Irish border , and called for a United Nations peacekeeping force to be ...
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Two civilians were killed in an PIRA bomb attack at the Falls Baths in West Belfast. In the follow-up operation a British Army bomb disposal officer was killed when he stepped on a pressure-plate bomb left nearby. His death marked 400 British Army deaths during the conflict. [116] 23 July
[41] [42] [43] [40] An Irish Tribunal of Inquiry by Judge Peter Smithwick into the deaths of the two senior RUC officers investigating Garda Síochána collusion with the IRA, concluded in 2013 that Breen was the target of the ambush to abduct and interrogate him on how the British security services had advance warning of the Loughgall ambush.
The main group involved was an IRA splinter group known as the 'Real' IRA. In 2007, the British Army formally ended Operation Banner and greatly reduced its presence in Northern Ireland. [12] The low-level 'dissident republican' campaign continued.