The Troubles in Ardboe

A list of fatal incidents during the Troubles in Ardboe, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

1972

• 16 October 1972 - John Patrick Mullan (34) and Hugh Herron (38), both members of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA), were shot and killed by British Army soldiers in the carpark of St. Patrick's Hall, Ardboe. The location was being used as a vehicle check point.^[1]

1977

• 2 June 1977 - Hugh Martin (58), Samuel Davison (24) and Norman Lynch (22), all Protestant members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), were shot dead by Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) snipers while on mobile patrol in Carnan.^[2]

1978

• 26 February 1978 - Paul Duffy (23), an IRA member, was shot by an undercover British Army Special Air Service (SAS) member at an arms cache in an unoccupied farmhouse. This was the first time the SAS had been used in action outside of South Armagh.^[3][4]

1979

• 22 June 1979 - John "Jack" Scott (49), a Protestant off-duty member of the RUC Reserve, was shot by the IRA while delivering milk in Ardboe.^[5]

1984

• 13 July 1984 - William Price (28), a member of the IRA, was killed by the SAS during an attempted incendiary bomb attack on a factory in Ardboe.^[6]

1988

• 26 April 1988 - Edward "Ned" Gibson (22), a Protestant off-duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), was shot by the IRA while working as a bin man in Moortown.^[7]
• 30 November 1989 - Liam Ryan (39), an IRA member, was shot dead in the Battery Bar by the Ulster Volunteer Force. A Catholic civilian, Michael Devlin (33), was also killed.^[8]