The Troubles in Moneymore
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The Troubles in Moneymore recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Moneymore, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Incidents in Moneymore during the Troubles resulting in two or more death(s):
1977
- 8 April 1977 - Kenneth Sheehan (19) and John McCracken (22), both Protestant members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army when they approached a stationary car, near Moneymore.[1] Both RUC men were members of the RUC Special Patrol Group, shot dead by three IRA gunmen, when they chased and tried to stop a car at Gortagilly on the main Magherafelt to Moneymore road. The car crashed and the occupants opened fire with automatic weapons before escaping across fields. A third RUC man was wounded in the legs. Kenneth Sheehan had just returned to duty after being seriously injured in an ambush in Derry in 1976. In April 1978, a plaque was dedicated at his former school, Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, to commemorate his death and that of two other former pupils and RUC men killed in the Troubles.[2] Francis Hughes' involvement in the killings was confirmed in an IRA account of the incident.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ NI Conflict Archive on the Internet
- ^ McKittrick, D., Kelters, S., Feeney, B. and Thornton, C. Lost Lives. Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1999, p. 714
- ^ The Moneymore Escape
