Loughgall ambush 8th of May 1987 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 SAS Ambush Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' were shot dead by the SAS in a fierce gun battle at Loughgall on 8 May 1987. They were killed as they approached the station with a 200lb bomb, its fuse lit, in the bucket of a hijacked digger. The IRA men who died were the East Tyrone IRA 'Commander' Patrick Kelly, 32; Declan Arthurs, 21; Seamus Donnelly, 19; Michael Gorml

The sister of an IRA man killed in an undercover operation by SAS soldiers near Loughgall in County Armagh during the troubles has lost a case at the European Court of Human Rights. The long-running legal battle centres on an inquest held here a decade ago. Our home affairs correspondent Julian O'Neill has more details. | BBC Newsline