Announcing the move, then-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis warned it was "not a time for complacency", saying "there is still a minority who wish to cause harm in Northern Ireland". The New IRA admitted responsibility for the murder of journalist Lyra McKee, 29, who was shot in the head as she covered rioting on the Creggan estate in Derry in 2019. I took some pictures of the cottage on my iPhone of its interior. Last edited on 28 November 2022, at 12:46, List of members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Fourth Northern Division of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Former Chief of Staff of the Provisional IRA, "Internment, the IRA and the Lawless Case in Ireland: 1957-61", CAIN: Peter Heathwood Collection of Television Programmes - 1993 - BBC Northern Ireland News 10 September 1993, "Vol. Fri 8:20 AM. 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. . 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. David Black (52) was shot dead as he drove to work in Maghaberry Prison in Co Armagh in 2012, while Adrian Ismay died 11 days after a bomb exploded under his van in Belfast in 2016. There have been a number of other organisations that have used the IRA name, often prompted by ideological differences and groups splintering off. The elderly Nationalist Party was going nowhere even if it had been offered somewhere to go. Security sources say that it has a store of the high explosive Semtex that they believe was siphoned off from old Provisional IRA stock. 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. 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 highest position was occupied by the Brigade's officer commanding, the top IRA ranking in the city. In January and February, PSNI officers carried out search operations in various locations targeted at the membership of the New IRA. I heard both republicans in Donegal and British Army persons in Derry discussing this at the time. Derry had only ever given rise to the lumpen and paralysed Nationalist Party led by Eddie McAteer, whose Belfast-based brother, Hugh, had been Chief of Staff of the IRA. policy. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is the name that has been used by a number of paramilitary groups in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Keeping pace with the marchers and standing at the GPO were old former Provisional IRA men. Too many people who call themselves Christians offer passive support to organisations that, in their inner hearts, they know are directly opposed to the mind and teaching of Christ. 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. Email Explainer: The New IRA and their not-so-new belief in violent republicanism. Bemused Dubliners looked on at the spectacle of the mismatched and poorly drilled marchers stomping their way up the countrys main street. [Donal, you cant practice the glorification of the most senior IRA leader in Derry one day and then wring your hands when young IRA volunteers emulate his murders the next day. Mountbatten's funeral in 1979 was a ceremonial . The 62-year-old . A 10th suspect, Issam Bassalat, 62, a Palestinian doctor based in Scotland, has also been arrested and stands accused of preparation of terrorist acts. 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. 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.. 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. MI5 got McFadden out of Northern Ireland shortly before the arrests of the nine suspected New IRA figures in August. 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. unless otherwise stated. 18 December 1975: two British soldiers, Cyril McDonald (aged 43) and Colin McInnes (aged 20), were killed in a bomb attack, Bank Place, near Guildhall Square, Derry. 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 . Many people witnessed this activity, including other off duty IRA volunteers friends of mine who were shocked at the breach of the generally understood IRA promise not to engage in actions during Civil Rights marches. Having been given a taste of IRA actions in 1970 and 1971, Derrys sleeping underbelly was willing to embrace a daily televised IRA campaign (which it had decidedly rejected 15 years earlier when the IRAs Border Campaign failed to garner support) in preference to a relatively boring Civil Rights campaign. None of the foreign students recalls the IRAs deliberate murder of 29-year-old Joanne Mathers in the Waterside as she was making some extra money for her young family collecting census forms. The printed statement, which was signed "T. O'Neill . The full name for the New IRA is the New Irish Republican Army - although its members describe it as simply the Irish Republican Army. Northern Ireland a putrid little state? McGuinness got Frankie back to Derry, then to Buncrana in Donegal, then to interrogation and torture leading to his murder on the border. Relatives for Justice: Time for Truth or Time for Really Big Lies? There was a palpable feeling abroad in middle-class Derry that the Civil Rights movement and Peoples Democracy were infiltrated or led by communists and dreaded university students were widely held to be the foolish bearers of revolutionary communism and Trotskyism. BBC Spotlight Two Saoradh activists from Londonderry are also in the leadership of the New IRA in the city, security sources have told BBC Spotlight. For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can make a difference. 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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. He played a central role in MI5s Operation Arbacia, which culminated at the end of this summer with the arrest of nine suspected leading New IRA members, all of whom have been charged with directing acts of terrorism. The statement reads: "The Irish Republican Army claim . The Derry-based activist was responding to a series of claims made in a blog by former leading IRA man, Shane Paul O'Doherty. McGuinness was so incensed against Frankie that I would not be surprised if he had made arrangements to personally shoot Frankie in the back of the head. 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. 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. Some of the members of the Real IRA and other groupings have refused to join forces and have continued to operate under their previous groupings. 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). Under McGlinchy's leadership the INLA enjoyed it's most successful military period. Bishop Edward Daly said Martin McGuinness had lied through his teeth about this matter and he would never believe otherwise. MI5 has gathered information that potential targets were discussed at a meeting. In 1986, the Provisional IRA also decided to allow Provisional Sinn Fin members sit in parliament, prompting another splinter dubbed the Continuity IRA. More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal. Gerry Moriarty is the former Northern editor of The Irish Times, Bemusement among those opposed to Brexit as Sunak hails prize for Northern Ireland in his deal with EU, Peace Proms return with strong message on harmony and inclusivity, What is the DUP up to now? In 1969, the IRA membership was split over a vote to let Sinn Fin members sit in parliament. 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. Today, security officers in Ireland and Britain will be working together to ensure that doesnt happen again. While the soldiers were distracted IRA volunteers lowered a bomb onto the roof of their. February 23, 2023: Police patrol at the . Don't you hate it when you open the boot of your car and there's a member of the IRA in there? Mon Feb 27 2023 - 07:47. For Belfast, he names . The Derry Brigade was organised in three different levels. 12 August 1969 Battle of the Bogside (Derry) The Orange Apprentice Boys of Londonderry hold a parade. 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. 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. They were videoed by police wearing berets, sunglasses and combat fatigues with scarves covering their mouths while marching in the estate. The deaths of the two McCool children were also the first females deaths in the Troubles although they were not the first child deaths. 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. Your email address will not be published. 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. Reflecting on 30 years of conflict as Northern Ireland marks its centenary, Elliot, from Derry, says the IRA leadership should have been ended the violence in 1987 since it is now clear that. It carried out a car bomb attack that severely injured PSNI officer Peadar Heffron in 2010, and the same year was behind the car bomb attack on the British army's Palace Barracks in Hollywood, Co Down, which houses MI5's headquarters in Northern Ireland. Army claim leadership the INLA enjoyed it & # x27 ; s funeral in was. 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