

Rogue members of the RUC Special Patrol Group (SPG) believed that the state of affairs was rapidly deteriorating and that the IRA were actually ‘winning the war’. It has been alleged that some key members were double agentsworking for British military intelligence and RUC Special Branch. The Cassel Report investigated 76 killings attributed to the group and located evidence that British soldiers and RUC officers have been concerned in 74 of those. Attacks attributed to the group embrace the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the Miami Showband killings, and the Reavey and O’Dowd killings. It additionally launched assaults elsewhere in Northern Ireland and within the Republic of Ireland. It additionally launched some attacks elsewhere in Northern Ireland and within the Republic of Ireland. John Oliver Weir (born 1950, County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland) – an officer in the RUC Special Patrol Group (an “anti-terrorist” unit) and UVF volunteer. Originally from Co Monaghan, he was a member of the RUC’s Special Patrol Group in Armagh when he became concerned in the activities of the Glenanne Gang. In accordance with submissions received by Mr Justice Barron, the Glenanne farm was used to build and retailer the bombs that exploded in Dublin and Monaghan. Based out of a farm owned by former RUC officer, James Mitchell in Glenanne in south Armagh, the gang is believed to have carried out around 120 murders, the vast majority of which had been innocent Catholics.
The name “Glenanne gang” is derived from the farm at Glenanne (close to Markethill, County Armagh) that was used as the gang’s arm dump and bomb-making site. It was during this exceptionally violent period that a group of loyalist extremists formed a loose alliance that was belatedly in 2003 given the identify “Glenanne gang”.The gang, which contained over 40 known members, included troopers of the British Army’s Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), rogue parts of the RUC, the Mid-Ulster Brigade of the unlawful paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and some Ulster Defence Association (UDA) members. The gang included British troopers from the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), police officers from the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), and members of the Mid-Ulster Brigade of the Ulster Volunteer Force(UVF). The British Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) bore the brunt of IRA violence and plenty of Protestants felt their folks to be beneath attack. Some have been shot after being stopped at pretend British Army checkpoints, and numerous the attacks have been co-ordinated. “Right, for instance, the army commanders… Some Provisionals wanted no part of the truce, while British commanders resented being advised to stop their operations against the IRA just when-they claimed-that they had the Provisionals on the run.
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