Thread: A "what if...?" Going 'Sri Lankan' in Ulster

Originally Posted by rickshaw-major

PIRA and INLA may have had their supporters in the South but nowhere near the levels some people think. Both organisations were more that capable of killing Garda and did..

GARDAI KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY SINCE 1922


Garda O’Halloran - 28th January 1924 - shot by bank raiders

Detective Garda Arthur Nolan - 29th February 1924 - shooting

Garda John Morrin - 29th October 1924 - shot by IRA gunman

Garda Thomas Dowling - 28th December 1925 - shot by IRA

Garda Sergeant Fitzsimons - 14th November 1926 - shot by IRA

Garda Hugh Ward - 14th November 1926 - shot by IRA

Detective Garda T O’Sullivan - 11th June 1929 - IRA bombing

Garda Superintendent Curtin - 21st March 1931 - shot by IRA

Garda Sergeant McKeown - 17th August 1940 - shot by IRA

Detective Garda Hyland - 17th August 1940 - shot by IRA

Garda Sergeant Denis O’Brien - 9th September 1942 - shot by IRA

Detective Garda George Mordant - 19th October 1942 - Shot by IRA

Garda Richard Fallon - 3rd April 1970 - Shot by Saor Eire

Garda Inspector Samuel Donegan - 8th June 1970 - Provisional IRA bombing

Garda Michael Reynolds - 11th September 1975 - Shot by bank raiders

Garda Michael Clerkin - 15th October 1976 - Provisional IRA bombing

Detective Garda John Morley - 7th July 1980 - shot by bank raiders

Garda Henry Byrne - 7th July 1980 - shot by bank raiders

Detective Garda James Quaid - 13th October 1980 - shot by Provisional IRA

Garda Patrick Reynolds - 20th February 1982 - shot by INLA

Garda Sergeant Patrick McLaughlin - 9th April 1983 - murdered by local criminal

Garda Recruit Gary Sheehan - 16th December 1983 - shot by Provisional IRA

Detective Garda Frank Hand - 10th August 1984 - shot by Provisional IRA

Garda Sergeant Patrick Morrissey - 27th June 1985 - shot by INLA

Detective Garda Jerry McCabe - 7th June 1996 - shot by Provisional IRA

Garda Sergeant Andrew Callanan - 20th July 1999

Originally Posted by HarryPalmer

Originally Posted by rickshaw-major

I cannot find a link but I also recall in the late -70's (IIRC) INLA attacked a Radar Station in Eire (reputed to be US operated) and booby trapped the place.

1982 - the INLA attacked and blew up the radar domes on Mount Gabriel in Cork, part of the national ATC network.
The INLA claimed that they were a legitimate military target or some balls.

That's the jobber!

TVM

Originally Posted by old_fat_and_hairy

... deciding to go south. We knew it would never happen

Well I know that to be untrue. Our section once went south. Troop leader forgot to check his map and when I asked him, "How far to the border now then Staff?"

He looked at the map and told the section, "Turn around. We've gone 100m too far." And we bimbled back into the north.

We've all done the border misplacement bit havent we?

Originally Posted by ugly

We've all done the border misplacement bit havent we?

Originally Posted by rickshaw-major

Originally Posted by ugly

We've all done the border misplacement bit havent we?

The buggers from the South kept moving it. Certainly couldn't have been my map reading. I was serving with an 'elite'.

Originally Posted by western

Originally Posted by tropper66

In 1969/70 the United States Navy had a base in Waterside in Londonderry

That was Clooney Base, later 1977ish, taken over by RMP.

A USN site about Clooney http://navcommsta-londonderry.freese...com/index.html[/quote]



There were two locations, the aerial field just opposite Altnegelvin hospital and the other on the Clooney road.

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"Vonshot:
This is becoming tedious, hearsay for god’s sake, do you believe every rumour you hear? There were a few recently about Sadam, WMD and Al Quieda for example....turned out to be bullsh1t but never let that get in teh way of a good yarn at the bar"


Hi Vonshot - I was there through most of it except for a few specialised courses in other places ( including through Motorman and Bloody Sunday - and all the other bloody days we were subjected to ) - and I have also read many books on the subject. There are others who may know as much if not more than you on this subject.