The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade [1] was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles".It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry.

9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [62] The facilities damaged by mortar bombs included the above-mentioned Ballygawley barracks, a British Army outpost at Aughnacloy,[63] the RUC barracks at Clogher[64] and Beragh,[65] both resulting in massive damage but no fatalities, an overshot aimed at the RUC base in Caledon, which was also hit by gunfire,[66][67] and the RUC stations at Fintona,[68] Carrickmore,[69] and Pomeroy. [34][35] In May, an IRA unit firing a light machine gun disrupted a UDR mobile checkpoint at Lurgylea road, north of Cappagh. Five were bound over.

It was also one of the worst attacks against the security forces in County Down since the Warrenpoint Ambush of August 1979 when 18 British soldiers were killed and six injured. 1991: IRA men shot dead by British Army, bbc.co.uk; accessed 6 October 2015. 1 January 1986: two RUC officers (James McCandless and Michael Williams) were killed when the IRA East Tyrone Brigade detonated a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a litter bin as their patrol passed on Thomas Street, 11 August 1986: The East Tyrone Brigade destroyed the RUC base at, 23 November 1986: six British soldiers were wounded after the Brigade launched seven mortars at a British Army barracks in.

[35][36] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen.[37].

[18] However, many of their remaining activists were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes, leading to high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. The six attackers gathered on the same spot afterwards.

[4] The theory involved creating "no-go zones" that the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) did not control and gradually expanding them. [29][30] On 24 March 1990, there was a gunbattle between an IRA unit and undercover British forces at the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone, when IRA members fired at a civilian-type car driven by security forces, according to Archie Hamilton, then Secretary of State for Defence. Miss O’Neill’s father was not the only member of her family to ‘distinguish’ himself in the East Tyrone Brigade. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade[1] was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles".

26 March 1997: A grenade was thrown by IRA volunteers to the Army/RUC base at Coalisland. The remains were kept under armed guard for further forensic analysis for several days before being removed from the field. Sutton Index of Deaths, cain.ulst.ac.uk; accessed 6 October 2015.

[22] The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade[1] was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". 4 December 1983: Colm McGirr (23) and Brian Campbell (19), both members of the East Tyrone Brigade, were shot dead by an undercover British Army soldier whilst approaching an arms dump in a field near Coalisland.

The 12 May riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians.

One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. "Any good that Molloy may have done acting as an informer against the IRA and helping to compromise the East Tyrone Brigade was more than cancelled out by this callous disregard for the lives of his neighbours. [11] [12] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200 lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. His assassination was the first IRA attack since the Government replied on Thursday to Sinn Féin's 20 questions about the Downing Street Declaration.

They had mounted a heavy DShK machine gun on the back of a stolen lorry, driven right to the RUC/British Army station and opened fire with tracer ammunition at the fortified base at point-blank range, when the long-range of the weapon would enable them to fire from a safe distance.