Loughgall ambush 8th of May 1987 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 SAS Ambush Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' were shot dead by the SAS in a fierce gun battle at Loughgall on 8 May 1987. They were killed as they approached the station with a 200lb bomb, its fuse lit, in the bucket of a hijacked digger. The IRA men who died were the East Tyrone IRA 'Commander' Patrick Kelly, 32; Declan Arthurs, 21; Seamus Donnelly, 19; Michael Gorml

23K views · 224 reactions | A Coroner has ruled SAS killings of four IRA men at Clonoe in 1992 were "not justified" in suspected shoot to kill operation. Michael Humphreys found soldiers had no honest belief that lethal force was necessary when Kevin Barry O'Donnell, Sean O'Farrell, Peter Clancy and Patrick Vincent were shot dead following a gun attack. | Irish News | Facebook