WEREN’T DEATHS OF THESE IRA MEN JUSTIFIED?
IRA terrorists killed by the British Army included:
1 PATRICK KELLY
Kelly’s unit attacked Loughgall police station in County Armagh with a 200lb bomb in 1987. As the eight gang members jumped from a van, the SAS opened fire, killing them all.
2 SEAMUS McELWAINE
Convicted of one murder and linked to a further ten. He escaped from prison in 1983 but was killed by the SAS in 1986.
3 DESSIE GREW
Wanted for the murder of an RAF corporal and her baby. Killed by the SAS in 1990.
4 JAMES LYNAGH
‘The Executioner’ was suspected of being the assassin of Sir Norman Stronge, the Ulster Unionist Party speaker, in 1981. He was killed in the Loughgall ambush.
5 PETER CLEARY
Masterminded the 1976 Kingsmill Massacre when ten Protestant workers were shot dead. Arrested for another murder, Cleary tried to grab a soldier’s rifle and was shot.
6 IRA KILL SQUAD
Lawrence McNally, Peter Ryan and Tony Doris, pictured, were preparing to assassinate a highranking UDR officer in 1991 when the SAS ambushed their car, killing all three.