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 · 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, an inquest has ruled. Kevin Barry O'Donnell, 21, Sean O ...

1 day ago · The four armed IRA men were killed about 20 minutes after firing 60 shots at Coalisland police station – no-one was injured in the attack. SAS soldiers opened fire without warning when the lorry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 · 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 ...

1 day ago · Latest | Unionist slams ‘ludicrous' inquest ruling that SAS ambush of IRA gang was unjustified. IRA admitted four men were on ‘active service’ at time of shooting at Clonoe church in 1992

The Coagh ambush was a military confrontation that took place in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on 3 June 1991, during The Troubles, when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit from its East Tyrone Brigade was ambushed by the British Army's Special Air Service (SAS) at the village of Coagh, in County Tyrone, whilst on ...

1 day ago · The scene of a shoot-out in Clonoe, near Coalisland, County Tyrone, where four IRA men were killed by the SAS and (top right) DUP leader Gavin Robinson and (bottom right) UUP MP Doug Beattie