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Oct 27, 2020 · Police officers Sean Quinn, Allan McCloy and Paul Hamilton were killed when their car was blown up near Lurgan in 1982. The families of three policemen murdered in an IRA attack 38 years ago...
During the Troubles, 319 RUC officers were killed and almost 9,000 injured in paramilitary assassinations or attacks, mostly by the IRA, which made the RUC the most dangerous police force in the world in which to serve by 1983.
Jun 16, 2022 · The gun attack was blamed on the IRA and it happened just weeks before the group's 1997 ceasefire. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers both had very young families at the time and a...
A memorial is to be unveiled to the first Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officer killed in the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles, 50 years after he was shot. John Doherty was ambushed by...
Nov 14, 2016 · Cross-border brigades contained the IRA's top killers. It was the extreme that suppressed less radicalised views within the organisation.
Three RUC officers have been killed by a bomb, planted by IRA terrorists, which exploded beneath their armoured police car. The officers were investigating the report of a robbery in Lurgan...
Jan 27, 2022 · A service has been held in Londonderry in memory of two RUC officers murdered by the IRA fifty years ago. Con David Montgomery, 20, and Sgt Peter Gilgunn, 26, were killed in an IRA gun...
