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On 2 December 1984, a four-man Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit was ambushed by a British Army Special Air Service team while attempting to bomb a Royal Ulster Constabulary patrol who they had lured to Drumrush Lodge Restaurant. Two IRA volunteers and one SAS soldier were killed during the action. [1]
^Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths". cain.ulst.ac.uk.
and travelled to Kesh, County Fermanagh, where they met two other IRA volunteers. At the Drumrush Lodge Restaurant just outside Kesh, the unit then planted...
into Northern Ireland to Kesh, a village in the north of County Fermanagh. At the Drumrush Lodge Restaurant, just outside Kesh, they planted a landmine...
then crossed the border and travelled to Kesh, County Fermanagh. At the Drumrush Lodge Restaurant just outside Kesh they then planted a landmine in a lane...
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other causes. It suffered its greatest loss of life in the Warrenpoint ambush of 1979. The British Army was initially deployed, at the request of the...
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