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The IRA abducted Fenton on 24 February 1989, and took him to a house in the Lenadoon area of Belfast. [10] He was interrogated by the ISU and confessed to working as an informer for Special Branch, and was court-martialled. [11] Fenton was found dead in an alley in Lenadoon on 26 February 1989; he had been shot four times.
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 ...
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6 March 1973: a British soldier (Anton Brown, aged 22) was shot dead by an IRA sniper while patrolling Whitecliff Crescent, Ballymurphy, Belfast. Another British soldier (Joseph Leahy, aged 31) was wounded by an IRA booby-trap bomb planted in a derelict house in Mullaghbawn, near Forkill, County Armagh. He died two days later, on 8 March 1973.
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 Warrenpoint ambush, [9] also known as the Narrow Water ambush, [10] the Warrenpoint massacre [11] or the Narrow Water massacre, [12] was a guerrilla attack [13] by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 27 August 1979.
Following the split in physical force Irish republicanism in the late 1960s between the Officials (Official Sinn Féin — also known as Sinn Féin Gardiner Place — and the Official IRA) and the Provisionals (Provisional Sinn Féin — also known as Sinn Féin Kevin Street and now most commonly simply as Sinn Féin — and the Provisional IRA ...
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.