The Troubles in Kesh

The Troubles in Kesh recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Kesh, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Incidents in Kesh during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:

1984

2 December 1984 - Alistair Slater (28), a member of 22 SAS of the British Army, and Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde (27), a Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) volunteer, were both shot dead during an IRA ambush and a gun battle between an undercover 22 SAS British Army unit and a PIRA unit, near Kesh. Kieran Fleming (26), a PIRA volunteer, drowned in the Bannagh River, near Kesh, as he tried to escape from the gun battle. The IRA men had been attempting to bomb an RUC police car in Kesh. Slater was posthumously awarded the Military Medal for his bravery in the action.^[1]

References

↑ Slater profile, london-gazette.co.uk; accessed 15 November 2015.

Sources

Bruce, Charles, Freefall (under the pseudonym Tom Read), pp. 162–63, Little Brown, Edition 1, 1998; ISBN 0-316-64303-3.
NI Conflict Archive on the Internet

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