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 …

1 day ago · Use of lethal force in killing of four IRA men by SAS soldiers was not justified, High Court rules. Four Provisional IRA members - Kevin Barry O'Donnell, 21, Sean O'Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19 ...

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1 day ago · Four Provisional IRA members – Kevin Barry O’Donnell, 21, Sean O’Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19, and Daniel Vincent, 20 – were shot dead by the soldiers minutes after they had carried out a ...

1 day ago · An inquest has ruled the use of lethal force by SAS soldiers was unjustified when they opened fire killing four IRA men in an ambush at Clonoe in County Tyrone.

1 day ago · SAS soldiers who shot and killed four IRA members in an ambush more than 30 years ago face prosecution after a coroner ruled that the use of lethal force was unjustified.. The IRA terrorists were ...

Operation Flavius (also referred to as the Gibraltar killings) was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988.

1 day ago · Use of force by SAS who shot dead four IRA men in Co Tyrone ‘not justified’, coroner rules The men were shot dead minutes after they carried out a gun attack on an RUC station. 12.32pm, 6 Feb 2025

An inquest has ruled the use of lethal force by SAS soldiers was unjustified when they opened fire killing four IRA men in an ambush at Clonoe in County Tyrone. Kevin Barry O'Donnell, 21, Sean O ...

Operation Flavius was a military operation conducted by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar against a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) cell. The operation resulted in three IRA members who were shot dead by undercover operators of the British SAS on March 6, 1988.