The Troubles in Newry

The Troubles in Newry recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.

Incidents in Newry during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:

1971

23 October 1971 - Sean Ruddy (28), James McLaughlin (26) and Robert Anderson (26), The three men were shot by the British Army who secreted themselves on the roof of buildings overlooking the bank in Hill Street.

22 August 1972 - Oliver Rowntree (22), Noel Madden (18) and Patrick Hughes (35), all members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and Francis Quinn (28), Patrick Murphy (45), Michael Gilleece (32), Joseph Fegan (28) and John McCann (60), all civilians, and Craig Lawrence (33), a civilian, were all killed in a premature bomb explosion at the Customs Office, Newry.

24 December 1973 - Edward Grant (18) and Brendan Quinn (17), both Catholic members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and Aubrey Harshaw (18), a Protestant civilian, were killed in a premature bomb explosion at Clarke's Bar, Monaghan Street, Newry.

15 May 1974 - Colman Rowntree (24) and Martin McAlinden (23), both members of the Official Irish Republican Army, were shot dead by the British Army shortly after being captured while preparing a land mine, Ballyholland, near Newry.

31 July 1975 - Fran O'Toole (27), Brian McCoy (33) and Tony Geraghty (23), all civilian members of the Miami Showband, were shot and killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) shortly after their minibus was stopped at a bogus vehicle checkpoint at Buskhill, seven miles north of Newry. Harris Boyle (22) and Wesley Somerville (34), both members of the Ulster Defence Regiment and the UVF, were killed in a premature explosion while planting a bomb on the minibus belonging to the Miami Showband.

28 February 1985 - Alexander Donaldson (41), Rosemary McGookin (27), Geoffrey Campbell (24), Sean McHenry (19), David Topping (22), John Dowd (31) Ivy Kelly (29), Denis Price (22), and Paul McFerran (33), members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army mortar bomb attack on Corry Square Police Station.

3 April 1985 - Michael Kay (38), a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Kenneth Parry (55), a civilian employed at the Courthouse, were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote controlled bomb, hidden in parked car and detonated when a Royal Ulster Constabulary patrol passed, outside the Courthouse, Downshire Road, Newry.

26 July 1986 - Karl Blackbourne (19), Peter Kilpatrick (27) and Charles Allen (37), all members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, were shot and killed from close range by the Provisional Irish Republican Army while sitting in their stationary armoured patrol car at Market Street, Newry.