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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 ...
2 July 2011: An alleged member of the Provisional IRA was arrested for questioning over the stabbing of a man suspected of being linked to dissident republicans in the Markets area of Belfast. [37] [38] 14 February 2013: Former IRA volunteer Sean Kelly was arrested over the punishment shooting of an 18-year-old man in Belfast. [39]
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]
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.
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10 April - Major George Saunderson (Brevet Lt Col), until the previous year second-in-command of 4 UDR, was killed in the kitchen of the school in Derrylin where he worked by gunmen who then crashed through a Garda checkpoint to escape into the Republic of Ireland.