The Clonoe Ambush was a military action between the British Army and the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) that occurred during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.On 16 February 1992, an IRA unit which had attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) security base in the village of Coalisland in County Tyrone, was ambushed shortly afterwards by the Special Air Service (SAS) in the grounds ...

5 days ago · The use of lethal force by SAS soldiers was unjustified when they opened fire killing four IRA men in an ambush at Clonoe in County Tyrone, an inquest has ruled.

17 hours ago · An inquest ruled the shooting of Peter Clancy, Patrick Vincent, Kevin Barry O'Donnell and Sean O'Farrell by the SAS was unjustified MPs in the Commons have clashed over an inquest ruling which ...

1 day ago · Last week, Mr Justice Michael Humphreys found the SAS soldiers involved in the ambush in Clonoe, Co Tyrone, did not have an honest belief in the necessity of using lethal force and that it was ...

5 days ago · Members of a specialist British military unit who shot dead four IRA men in an ambush in Co Tyrone in 1992 used lethal force which was not justified, a coroner has ruled.

4 days ago · In the late 1980s/early 90s, they were hit by a number of SAS ambushes with Clonoe being the final one which caused them to eventually change tactics to longer-range mortar attacks. For British troops at the time, the brutal reality of serving in Northern Ireland was that everyone knew there was no possibility they would ever be taken prisoner ...

5 days ago · A coroner’s ruling that an SAS team was unjustified in shooting dead an IRA gang on a terror mission could open the door for prosecutions, it is claimed.

5 days ago · AN inquest has found SAS soldiers were ‘unjustified’ in shooting four IRA men in Tyrone in 1992. Provisional IRA members Kevin Barry O’Donnell, 21, Sean O’Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19, and Daniel Vincent, 20, were shot dead by the soldiers minutes after they had carried out a gun attack on Coalisland RUC station on February 16, 1992.

5 days ago · An SAS team which shot dead four IRA men in an ambush in Co Tyrone used lethal force which was not justified, a coroner has ruled.

5 days ago · A coroner has ruled that members of the SAS who shot dead four IRA men in an ambush in Co Tyrone in 1992 used lethal force that was unjustified.