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Joseph "Joe" Fenton (c. 1953 – 26 February 1989) was an estate agent from Belfast, Northern Ireland, killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) for acting as an informer for RUC Special Branch.
Catherine and Gerard Mahon were a husband and wife [1] who lived in Twinbrook, Belfast. [2] Gerard, aged twenty-eight, was a mechanic; Catherine, was twenty-seven. [3] They were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 8 September 1985, [4] the IRA alleging they were informers. However at least two of those responsible for their ...
Belfast: Northern Ireland: 15 June 1988 Joseph Fenton [59] Northern Irish estate agent and suspected Special Branch informer: 26 February 1989 John McAnulty [60] grain importer Culloville, County Armagh: 17 July 1989 Heidi Hazell [61] German citizen Unna West Germany: 7 September 1989 Nick Spanos [62] Australian tourists: Roermond Netherlands ...
26 February - Joseph Fenton, estate agent killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for acting as an informer (b. c1953). 10 August - H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (born 1907). 12 September - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1919).
The IRA's Belfast Brigade launched an operation to assassinate the UDA's top commanders, whom they believed were at the meeting. [1] [2] The plan allegedly was for two IRA members to enter the shop with a time bomb, force out the customers at gunpoint, and flee before it exploded, killing those at the meeting. [1]
The Stag Inn was a Protestant-owned hotel and bar. The attack took place on a Saturday at 8:00 pm on 30 July 1976 when at least 3 IRA/RAF gun men pulled up outside in a hijacked car and shot doorman John McLeave (48), who was standing outside the bar on security duty. Two of the gunmen entered the Stag Inn bar carrying automatic rifles and began shoot
He was abducted by the IRA in the summer of 1973, somewhere in the St James area of Belfast, killed and secretly buried at Waterfoot, County Antrim. [ 15 ] Columba McVeigh , a 19-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone , disappeared in 1975.
The Belfast Brigade of the Provisional IRA was the largest of the organisation's brigades, based in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland.. The nucleus of the Belfast Brigade emerged in the divisions within Belfast republicans in the closing months of 1969, and was formally established in January 1970 as the structures of the new dissident group were created after splitting from the Official IRA.