The Troubles in Loughgall

The Troubles in Loughgall recounts incidents during, and the effects of the Troubles in Loughgall, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Incidents in Loughgall during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:

1974

• 19 February 1974 - Patrick Molloy (48), Catholic, and John Wylie (49), Protestant, were killed in an Ulster Volunteer Force bomb attack on Trainor's Bar, Aghinlig, near Loughgall.[1]

1987

• 8 May 1987 - Declan Arthurs (21), Seamus Donnelly (19), Tony Gormley (25), Eugene Kelly (25), Patrick Kelly (30), James Lynagh (31), Patrick McKearney (32) and Gerard O'Callaghan (29), members of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, and Anthony Hughes (36), civilian, were all shot dead by British Army Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers, during a bomb attack together with firearms, on the Royal Ulster Constabulary station at Loughgall.[2]

1990

• 9 October 1990 - Desmond Grew (37) and Martin McCaughey (23), both members of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade,[3] were shot dead by undercover British Army members, at a derelict farmhouse, Lislasely Road, near Loughgall.[4]

1993

• 24 February 1993 - Reginald Williamson (47), member of the RUC, killed by an IRA bomb attached to his car when driving along Lislasley Road, near Loughgall.[5]

References

1. "Sutton Index of Deaths, 1974". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 6 December 2010.
2. "Sutton Index of Deaths, 1987". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 6 December 2010.
3. An Phoblacht, 7 October 2004
4. "Sutton Index of Deaths, 1990". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 6 December 2010.
5. "Sutton Index of Deaths, 1993". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 6 December 2010.