The Loughgall ambush took place on 8 May 1987 in the village of Loughgall, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.An eight-man unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched an attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base in the village. An IRA member drove a digger with a bomb in its bucket through the perimeter fence, while the rest of the unit arrived in a van and fired on the ...

2018年12月11日 · E arly on the evening of Friday, May 8, 1987, eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade, among the most militant units of the para military Irish Republican Army (IRA), steered two stolen vehicles toward the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. Five of the men, comprising the main assault team, occupied a Toyota van, while the other three rode a backhoe—what ...

2023年10月27日 · The nine Army shootings in Loughgall were among the most controversial of the Troubles. The eight IRA members were killed as they mounted a gun and bomb attack on Loughgall police station on 8 May ...

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Patrick Joseph Kelly (19 March 1957 – 8 May 1987), was an Irish commander of the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army during the mid-1980s until his death in a Special Air Service ambush at Loughgall, County Armagh in May 1987. [1] [2]

The Loughgall ambush took place on 8 May 1987 in the village of Loughgall, Northern Ireland. An eight-man unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched an attack on the village's Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base. Three IRA members drove a digger with a bomb in its bucket through the base's perimeter fence, while the …

2021年5月8日 · The Loughgall ambush takes place on May 8, 1987 in the village of Loughgall, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. An eight-man unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) launch an attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base in the village. The IRA's East Tyrone Brigade is active mainly in eastern County Tyrone and neighbouring…

May 08, 2017 at 2:00am BST. A member of an IRA unit who survived a deadly SAS ambush at Loughgall which claimed the lives of eight republicans has broken his silence for the first time on the 30th ...

2007年5月3日 · The Loughgall ambush proved, if proof were needed, that the sectarian Six County state could not have been held without the British army. While the British state through its highly trained, undercover SAS operatives who ambushed and summarily executed the Volunteers, were ultimately responsible for the deaths at Loughgall, the Irish Government ...

2015年9月23日 · Undated handout photos of the eight-man IRA unit killed in a shoot out with SAS soldiers following the bombing of the Loughgall RUC station, County Armagh, in May 1987, (clockwise from top left ...