The Troubles in Ardboe
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The Troubles in Ardboe recounts incidents during and the effects of the Troubles in Ardboe, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Incidents in Ardboe during the Troubles resulting fatalities:
1972
- 16 October 1972 - Patrick Mullan (34) and Hugh Herron (38), both Catholic members of the Official Irish Republican Army, were shot and killed by the British Army while travelling in a car at a British Army vehicle check point, outside St Patrick's Hall, Ardboe, six miles outside Coagh.
1977
- 2 June 1977 - Hugh Martin (58), Samuel Davidson (24) and Norman Lynch (22), all Protestant members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were shot dead by Provisional Irish Republican Army snipers while on mobile patrol near Ardboe.
1978
- 26 February 1978 - Paul Duffy (23), a Catholic member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), was shot by an undercover British Army (BA) member at an arms dump in an unoccupied farmhouse, near Ardboe.
1979
- 22 June 1979 - John Scott (49), a Protestant off- duty reservist of the Royal Ulster Constabulary was shot by the Irish Republican Army while delivering milk in Ardboe.
1984
- 13 July 1984 - William Price (28), a Catholic member of the Irish Republican Army, was shot by undercover British Army members during an attempted incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe.
1988
- 26 April 1988 - Edward "Ned" Gibson (22), a Protestant off-duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), was shot by the Provisional Irish Republican Army while working as a bin man in Moortown, near Ardboe.
- 29 November 1989 - Liam Ryan (39) a Catholic member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and Michael Devlin (33), a Catholic civilian were shot dead during an Ulster Volunteer Force gun attack on the Battery Bar, Moortown, two miles from Ardboe.
- 3 June 1991 - Peter Ryan (from Adrboe) (35), Lawrence McNally (from Ballinderry) (39) and Anthony Doris (from Moortown) (22), all Catholic members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, were shot and killed during an ambush in Coagh (six miles from Ardboe) by undercover British Army members. No attempt was made to arrest the men.
