If the IRA volunteers who murdered unarmed civilians Joanne Mathers and Jeffrey Agate were outed in Derry today, it would not harm their popularity at all Derry people will lap at the IRA trough in perpetuity. Email Explainer: The New IRA and their not-so-new belief in violent republicanism. The IRA Volunteer involved deliberately shot her through the neck at close range in full view of witnesses and then ran away in service of the IRA and Martin McGuinness. They were justified in defending themselves and I believe I was justified in assisting their defence. The IRA rejected claims that the killing was sectarian, stating: "The man's religion is of no interest to us. While dangerous in its early years, it is now viewed as weakened and heavily infiltrated. The New IRA have claimed responsibility for the attempted murder of Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell in Omagh last week. Derry people werent interested in Truth, but only in piecemeal truth insofar as it niggled The Brits. However, much of the IRA was opposed to the treaty for allowing the UK to keep Ulster. Wire service provided by AFP and Press Association. There are around 600 files in the Battalion and Company Rolls series. The 1992 movie details the kidnap of a Black British soldier, Jody (played by Forrest Whitaker), by members of the Provisional IRA, including volunteer Fergus (Stephen Rea). The smoke was billowing out of the house. unless otherwise stated. There is an old saying often touted at police officers in the North and garda in the South: that IRA activists only need to be lucky once. It is no surprise in 2019 that Derry City nurtures the nascent IRA, as it nurtured the nascent IRA in 1969. During that hearing, according to the Belfast Telegraph, a detective inspector told the court of the defendant: He is a member of Saoradh and attended a protest outside Strabane Magistrates Court in the wake of the explosion and investigation. Likewise on August 16th in the town of Derry, the IRA create bonfires to burn British and . I just heard boom. 23 May 1994: an IRA team used a motor boat stolen from Foyle Search and Rescue to cross. The New IRAs power base is generally believed to be in the Creggan area of Derry, where Lyra McKee was murdered, but it reaches further than that and goes out into communities across North and South of the border. Derry people gave the impression for many years of believing in John Humes creed that no political aim was worth a single drop of blood or a single human life, but that was just another lie. Saoradh reject the peace process, and this was a terrorist incident and the defendant is a key player.. However, with the Covid-19 pandemic, this years events are to be held online. The three IRA members were working on an incendiary device at McCools home at Dunree Gardens in the Creggan in June 1970 when it exploded prematurely. 23 March 1982: another British coal ship, 1 April 1982: two undercover British soldiers (Michael Burbridge and Michael Ward) were killed in an IRA sniper ambush shortly after leaving Rosemount, 28 August 1986: Mervyn Bell, a civilian contractor to the British Army, was shot dead by the IRA while sitting in stationary car outside his father's workplace, council depot, Strand Road, Derry. Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell remains critically ill in . As soon as it became possible to vote for those virile IRA persons who had made their contribution to the IRAs campaign of mass murder of civilians without even counting the number of police or soldiers murdered Derry people gave a handsome electoral reward to the men and women of murder, largely dumping the impotent and pacifist SDLP party that had operated without guns, bombs or murder Thanks for everything, John, but no thanks.. The violence, sparked by police. The Hooded Men Victims or Human Rights Offenders? 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The organisation was dubbed the New IRA by the press after the Real IRA merged with Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) and other small militant groups in 2012. 28 January 1990: a civilian (Charles Love) was killed when he was hit by debris when an IRA bomb exploded on Derry's walls during a march to commemorate Bloody Sunday. See: 1973 Coleraine bombings [4] Pic: AP, A member of the Saoradh Colour Party at a 2022 commemoration of the Easter Rising, Lyra McKee was covering riots in Londonderry when she was shot dead, Children ran in 'sheer terror' as detective was shot, Sinn Fin condemns Omagh shooting 'outright and utterly', claimed to have carried out the bomb attack, bomb was placed near the car of a female police officer. Derry was not a slum, but it has become a political slum since the populace has embraced the unrepentant murderers, bombers and torturers of yesteryear as their political representatives in preference to the unbloody and pacifist politicians of the SDLP and other groupings. The IRA members involved in Patsys murder and mass murder generally have settled into bourgeois businesses and landlordship in Derry warmly supported and admired by locals. The New IRA also claimed responsibility for a bomb placed under a police officer's car in 2019 and five letter bombs sent to two airports and a train station in London and the University of Glasgow. The elderly Nationalist Party was going nowhere even if it had been offered somewhere to go. Despite previous warnings he continued to work for the UDR, and that was the reason he was targeted. Lyra McKee was covering riots in Londonderry when she was shot dead Its effectiveness was severely curtailed when its leader and long-standing republican Seamus McGrane was arrested in 2015, three years later receiving an 11-year prison sentence at the Dublin Special Criminal Court for directing terrorism. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 7 July 1972 - Two British Army captains were captured & arrested while off duty by an IRA patrol in Derry's Bogside area. Mountbatten's funeral in 1979 was a ceremonial . The Mid-Ulster MP was to speak in the Bogside before handing herself in to police but was arrested earlier and went on to serve four months in Armagh prison. While security sources had feared a resurgence in activities around the 2016 commemoration of the 1916 Rising, what has appeared to happen is a realisation by violent Republicans that there was a need to consolidate and reorganise. Police lasered in on the New IRA after an off-duty police officer was shot in Northern Ireland. Sen Murray Unquiet Graves Balanced Filmmaking or IRA Propaganda? ", 8 March 1989: two British soldiers were killed and six others badly wounded when their vehicle struck a massive IRA landmine on the, 28 January 1990: a civilian (Charles Love) was killed when he was hit by debris when an IRA bomb exploded on Derry's walls during a march to commemorate Bloody Sunday. Mon Feb 27 2023 - 07:47. Mirtn OMuilleoir & The Shadow of a Gunman, IRA War Crimes Deliberate Murders of Civilians. A lengthy press release posted on the Saoradh website on 8 February this year criticised what it called the normalisation process after community policing officers visited a school in Derry. The New IRA claimed responsibility for his murder. As well as the arrests and the eventual presence of McFadden in the witness box to give evidence, his main achievement has been to sow paranoia and distrust within what is left of the New IRA, the senior security source said. He bled to death after one of the shots severed an artery. The Derry Brigade was organised in three different levels. I heard both republicans in Donegal and British Army persons in Derry discussing this at the time. I remember my mother grabbing Sinead and us all running out into the street. Thomas Ashe Mellon and Fergal Melaugh were. Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. In April 2006, Donaldson was found dead with shotgun wounds at a cottage where had been living for several months after being exposed as a longstanding British informer inside the mainstream republican movement. The statement reads: "The Irish Republican Army claim . Devlin, who was 23 at the time, was arrested and sentenced to six months in prison the previous December for her involvement in the Battle of the Bogside in 1969. Not all agreed. The nine suspected New IRA figures charged with directing terrorism are Kevin Barry Murphy,50, Davy Jordan, 49, Damien McLaughlin, 44, Gary Hayden, 48, Joe Barr, 44, Shea Reynolds , 26, Paddy. McGuinness got Frankie back to Derry, then to Buncrana in Donegal, then to interrogation and torture leading to his murder on the border. Members of the local age friendly community are being invited to take part in a consultation for an Age-Friendly Strategy and Action Plan 2022-2025 for Derry and Strabane. The US Navy ran a US naval communications station in Derry until 1977. He was arrested at Heathrow airport in August. Two years after Bloody Sunday, Bishop Edward Daly officiated at the funeral of his former St. Columbs College friend, Derryman and Catholic Judge Rory Conaghan, murdered by the IRA in Belfast on the same morning that the IRA murdered Protestant Resident Magistrate Robert McBirney also in Belfast. The Belfast and Derry IRA For various reasons, including some difficulties with infiltration in Belfast, the IRA altered its units in Belfast and Derry city into smaller cells by the. No-one recalls the IRAs sectarian murder of unarmed Protestant Jeffrey Agate, MD of Du Pont, whose company gave some of the best paid jobs to Derry. Bishop Edward Daly used to be beloved of Derry people he who was famously photographed going to the aid of a victim on Bloody Sunday and waving a white handkerchief at paratroopers still firing their rifles. McFadden just shook his head and then said: Well he should have known what he was getting himself into when he became a tout [informer]. Security sources say that it has a store of the high explosive Semtex that they believe was siphoned off from old Provisional IRA stock. submissions or preferences. John Gill 12 May 2022 2:09 PM Email: editor@derrynews.net A Derry IRA man, shot dead while on 'active service' in the city by the British Army, will be remembered tomorrow on the 50th anniversary of his death. Why should ANY murderers repent? With the outbreak of the Troubles, the three found themselves among the most senior IRA members in Derry. Bassalat was denied bail at Dungannon magistrates court in Tyrone. 483623. McFaddens former acquaintance said: About a year ago I was in County Donegal and out of curiosity I drove up to the spot where Denis Donaldson was killed. The New IRA has admitted one of its members was responsible for killing journalist Lyra McKee (29) who was shot dead on April 18, 2019 while watching a riot in the Creggan area of Derry. The IRA intimidated the Derry Peace People leader Margaret Doherty out of her home in the Bogside, The IRA even discussed murdering another Bogside resident, local Member of Parliament and SDLP leader John Hume. PSNI officers watch as a colour party takes part in a parade in Newry, Co Down. Years ago in Los Angeles when he wasnt watching his words very carefully, Derrys own Undertones lead singer Feargal Sharkey infamously commented that he had been brought up in a slum in other words, in Derry. The real antagonism between the IRA leadership and the Civil Rights movement is captured in a Guardian press report from Belfast when IRA members forcefully crashed a Civil Rights platform and took over the meeting. The New IRA was established in 2012 when members of the Real IRA, Republican Action Against Drugs and a number of independent republicans came together. 20 April 1994: an RUC officer was killed when the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at a British Army/RUC mobile patrol in the Waterside area of Derry. In advance of the formation of the New IRA some of its members are believed to have been involved in the 2011 murder of PSNI officer Ronan Kerr in Omagh, and two years earlier in Antrim in the murders of British soldiers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey. It would be better to die confronting evil than to live and condone it.. A senior source told The. Though the scene was a comical one on first glance, when reporters took a closer look into the crowd, there were more sinister elements present. Over 5,000 readers like you already have stepped up. Real, Provisional, New - what's the difference between the IRAs? In terms of terrorist operations thwarted, captured weapons and good hard intelligence on this organisation, McFadden has dealt their morale a massive blow.. A 10th suspect, Issam Bassalat, 62, a Palestinian doctor based in Scotland, has also been arrested and stands accused of preparation of terrorist acts. On the 16th March 1988, Milltown Cemetery was the host of the enormous funeral held for these three IRA members killed by British Special Forces in Gibraltar. The full name for the New IRA is the New Irish Republican Army - although its members describe it as simply the Irish Republican Army. IRA members who supported the treaty formed the nucleus of the Irish National Army founded by the IRA leader Michael Collins. The Southern Command, which covers 21 counties, has a much smaller number of personnel. Security forces have said there has been intelligence circulating that the group was moving to a more aggressive targeting of security forces. For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can make a difference. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography Several men are currently awaiting trial charged with the murder. Several men are currently awaiting trial charged with the murder. LAST UPDATE [1] The Brigade strength was around 50 active members. Bishop Edward Daly said Martin McGuinness had lied through his teeth about this matter and he would never believe otherwise. The New IRA's power base is generally believed to be in the Creggan area of Derry, where Lyra McKee was murdered, but it reaches further than that and goes out into communities across North and . [citation needed] Its killings of civilians was possibly proportionately the lowest of all IRA brigades in Northern Ireland. for the content of external websites. A small IRA battalion existed in Derry since the Troubles began,[citation needed] but it never had a steady number of volunteers until Bloody Sunday, which saw an influx of new recruits. Bishop Edward Daly repeatedly told me over the years that he would never believe Martin McGuinness over Rose Hegarty in relation to McGuinness false promises that alleged informer Frankie Hegarty would not be harmed by the IRA if he returned to Derry. Carlin was sentenced to eight years in prison for possession of guns when he was arrested in 1957. Given the danger that attack posed to the wider community, just like as happened in the Creggan, PSNI chief constable George Hamilton called it "crazy" and "completely reckless". 11 June 1997: an undercover British Army unit on a stationary van received small arms fire from IRA volunteers riding on another van on Foyle Road in Derry. While in prison he turned against the republican movement and has become one of its greatest critics. British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians IRA members during a peaceful protest march against internment, which resulted in a public outrage and riots in . Relatives for Justice: Time for Truth or Time for Really Big Lies? McKearney was a member of the Provisional IRA for 15 years until he left in 1986, choosing to remain independent, and has addressed republican events and commemorations throughout Ireland. The members, numbering about 40, marched while dressed in green khaki military uniforms, berets and wearing black aviator glasses. This rhetoric is commonplace online but has also made it onto the streets. Three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army, Niall Connolly, Jim Monaghan and Martin McCauley, could face up to 20 years in jail if found guilty of collaboration with Latin America's largest guerrilla army - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC - during a trip to . There is currently a significant sharing of information between the PSNI and garda for instance, on Wednesday night garda moved armed units into border crossing zones as the PSNI warned them the gunmen were suspected to be heading south. He was a traitor. This guy McFadden must have had some brass neck to say a thing like that knowing that he too was an informer.. They had to sit on me to hold me down, he said. policy. This was the era of The Cold War and spies and The Berlin Wall. The Derry Brigade also known as the South Derry Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles. Just came across this site.real eye opener.tks. The New IRA has purportedly claimed responsibility for the shooting of a senior off-duty PSNI officer. Its Northern Ireland carry on murdering! The three IRA mens names were the first to be added to the Provisionals' Roll of Dead and the republican movement in Derry has also used the anniversary of their deaths as the date for its main commemoration of all IRA members who died. MI5 has gathered information that potential targets were discussed at a meeting. For earlier groups such as the, List of members of the Irish Republican Army, The Official Irish Republican Army & Post-Independence: 1922-present. After recent IRA bombings and shootings, residents and paramilitaries have set up checkpoints and barricades in Derry and Belfast, leading to more no-go areas, and rejecting civil authority. Keeping pace with the marchers and standing at the GPO were old former Provisional IRA men. One out of every three of these American sailors married local Derry girls, and many shared the local nationalists' hatred. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, The latest Irish and international sports news for readers and members, A platform helping fund the type of in-depth journalism that the public wants to see. A video has been produced to mark this weekends 50th anniversary of the deaths of the first IRA men killed in a premature explosion during the Troubles. What is the New IRA? It wants to see a united Ireland and an end to British rule in Northern Ireland, vowing to continue the armed struggle until those aims are achieved. Im afraid that History has shown that Derry people will always vote for IRA murderers over Victims, regardless of how many Human Rights atrocities perpetrated by the IRA. The lower layer was the Command Staff, which includes the quarter-master, the engineering department, the financial department and internal affairs, the latter to deal with informers. The New IRA was formed in 2012, and authorities believe it is politically affiliated with the Saoradh group, which was formed in 2016. Michael Collins, (born October 16, 1890, Woodfield, Sam's Cross, County Cork, Irelanddied August 22, 1922, Bal-na-mBlath, Cork), hero of the Irish struggle for independence, best remembered for his daring strategy in directing the campaign of guerrilla warfare during the intensification of the Anglo-Irish War (1919-21). I met Donegal businessmen in Letterkenny and Falcarragh who had earlier been requested to collect monies to pay for the weapons they later gave me a left-over 500 to be brought into Derry to pay for IRA activities Pat Dawson of Letterkenny and Paddy Kelly of Falcarragh, ever aided by Neil Blaneys brother Harry. To embed this post, copy the code below on your site, 600px wide An intensive search recovered the attackers' van at Glendara Park but failed to round up any suspects. The highest position was occupied by the Brigade's officer commanding, the top IRA ranking in the city. When the IRA worked out Carlin was the spy, members of the organisation's Internal Security Unit, the so-called . Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times. Like ETA in the Basque County, the group espouses a far-left leaning ideology of revolution, similar to that mooted by other European terror groups in the 1960s and 1970s. | Speaking just before her arrest, she said: I was involved with people in defending their area. In April 2022, following a Saoradh-organised event at a Derry cemetery, PSNI officers were attacked. Bishop Edward was a fearless opponent of any form of IRA paramilitary display in a catholic church and famously took a stand against Martin McGuinness and the IRA on this matter and banned all IRA paramilitary displays from churches in his diocese. After Bloody Sunday, it might be imagined that Derry would have forever become a monument to Civil Rights pacifism in honour of the marchers murdered that day, but in fact that was never going to happen. What is certain is that the New IRA has grown in numbers and armaments despite infiltration of its ranks by suspectedMI5 agent Dennis McFadden. The political party Saoradh had organised the parade to commemorate hunger strikes. April 6th: A Loyalist and Red Hand Commando member, Billy Elliot, mistakenly tortures and murders a Protestant woman, Margaret Wright. Around 100 IRA and INLA members were then arrested in Derry on his evidence, of whom 35 were charged with terrorist offences. Dominic McGlinchy was another member of the unit who would go on to make his own mark on the conflict, first a Volunteer in the Provisional IRA and then as leader of the Chief of Staff of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in the early 1980s. In November 2012, prison officer David Black, 52, was gunned down while driving to work at Maghaberry high-security jail. . In January 2019, police blamed the New IRA after a bomb placed in a van exploded outside the courthouse in Derry. This article is about members of the Irish Republican Army since 1916/1917. Another bomb attack occurred a few days after the attempted murder of two PSNI officers in November 2022, when a viable device was left outside a police station in Derry. The supporters remained in what became known as the Official IRA and the dissenters split off and formed the Provisional IRA. The political party Saoradh - the Irish word for liberation - is widely believed to be the political wing of the New IRA, although this is denied by the party. What the group has done and where it sits in the IRA's history, Masked members of the Real IRA at a Republican Easter commemoration ceremony at Creggan cemetery in Londonderry, Police say the New IRA, is the primary focus of their investigation, A policeman patrols the area near where a man was shot dead in Londonderry in 2013. As thousands of mourners gathered to pay their respects, a number of hand grenades were thrown into the crowd by a UDA paramilitary named Michael Stone. The first use of IRA dates back to the 1919-21 Irish War of Independence. For someone who had been raised in Rosemount in Derry, he earned a lot of local antagonism for his comment. Sky News reporter The IRA later did everything it could to stamp out the movement of women and mothers that became known as The Peace People anybody remember Mairead Corrigan-Maguire and Betty Williams and their ill-fated Nobel Peace Prize cash? The difference between Unionist and Nationalist pales into insignificance when one is faced with this kind of savagery where a man is sent to his death at breakfast by a teenage gunman. The nine suspected New IRA figures charged with directing terrorism are Kevin Barry Murphy,50, Davy Jordan, 49, Damien McLaughlin, 44, Gary Hayden, 48, Joe Barr, 44, Shea Reynolds , 26, Paddy McDaid, 50, Sharon Jordan, 45, and Mandy Duffy, 49. In recent years the New IRA superseded Oglaigh na hireann as the most lethal of the dissident organisations. The highest position was occupied by the Brigade's officer commanding, the top IRA ranking in the city. G Bill Gannon George Gilmore Several other RUC officers were injured. advertising. Thomas McCool (40), Joseph Coyle (40) and Thomas Carlin (55) along with McCool's young daughters, Bernadette (9) and Carole (3) were also the first IRA men to die in Derry during the Troubles.. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is the name that has been used by a number of paramilitary groups in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Stephen Fuller (d. 1984), a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence and fought with Anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War (1922-23). The formal admission by the group on Tuesday that it killed Derry-based journalist Lyra McKee caused no surprise, even if its defence of its action infuriated many. Until MI5 took him into protective custody to England at the end of the summer, McFadden had been living in a house in Glengormley on the northern outskirts of Belfast. Sky News looks at who thedissident republican group is, how it formed and how it is different from other iterations of the IRA. "So long as Britain persists in its denial of national and democratic rights in Ireland the IRA will have to continue to assert those rights. In April 2019, Saoradh held a rally on OConnell Street in Dublin. In the wake of the PIRAs ceasefire, those revolutionaries formed dissident factions such as the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA, and later the New IRA. Having had the opportunity to speak to thousands of students around Europe in recent years, I find many that many of them can recall Derry/Londonderry as the site of one of the IRAs most infamous attacks the Human Bomb attack involving Patsy Gillespie who was chained to a car bomb and ordered to drive it to an army checkpoint where Derry IRA volunteers including a member of a well-known republican family set off the bomb by remote control, blowing Patsy Gillespie and a number of British soldiers to fragments. Northern Ireland a putrid little state? Sources said there has been an effort by the various dissident groupsto build a concerted and coordinated campaign with groups amalgamating into the New IRA. "The IRA's mandate for armed struggle derives from Britain's denial of the fundamental right of the Irish people to national self-determination and sovereignty," it said. Feedback on Explainer: The New IRA and their not-so-new belief in violent republicanism. 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