The Troubles in Loughgall
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Notable incidents during The Troubles in Loughgall, County Armagh.
- 19 February – Patrick Molloy (48), a Catholic, and John Wylie (49), a Protestant, were killed in an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) bomb attack on Trainor's Bar, Aghinlig, near Loughgall.[1]
1976
- 29 November – a local grocer was attacked by three men from an unknown faction, who then wrecked his shop via a planted bomb they left behind.[2]
1987
- 8 May – Declan Arthurs (21), Seamus Donnelly (19), Tony Gormley (25), Eugene Kelly (25), Patrick Joseph Kelly (30), Jim Lynagh (31), Pádraig McKearney (32) and Gerry O'Callaghan (29), all part of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, were ambushed and killed by soldiers from the Special Air Service (SAS) while they attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base in Loughgall. A civilian, Anthony Hughes (36), was also killed when he unwittingly drove into the ambush and was mistaken for an IRA member.[3]
1989
- 4 May – Northern Ireland Prison Service nursing officer John Griffiths (37) was killed by an IRA booby trap bomb under the seat of his car as he left home at Ballynick Road.[4]