18 British Army Killed at Narrow Water - UTV Tonight 2012 Investigation

[@brendanogorman3748]

In the confusion the British army killed a man in Louth. ... Thats ACROSS THE IRISH BORDER! They opened fire on a tourist, a fisherman, not to mention he was British

[@eugeneoreilly9356]

The soldiers were combatants in a war.Nothing illegal.

[@jonsmith20766]

The same with the Gibraltar 3 then?

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

It wasn’t a war, it was a conflict involving a section of the Irish population only, hundreds and thousands of Irish people were moving about, travelling to & working on the island of Britain, if there was a war that just would not have remotely happened. It’s just nonsense to call it a war when you look at what I’ve outlined.

[@brendandunleavy1399]

​@@KeithWilliamMacHendryYou ask any member of the crown forces and they'll tell you it was a war.

[@Sidney1WG]

@@brendandunleavy1399 I was one of those Crown forces members, and I spent a total of three years serving in Northern Ireland. To myself and my comrades, we considered it to be a war.

[@ATroubledLand]

@@KeithWilliamMacHendry I take your point but it sure felt like a war to me living here.

[@binflynn1]

I think some high ranking officer in the British top brass said it was a highly thought out tactical military strategy one of which has not been seen in Northern Ireland since .

[@darthvadar441]

Martin McGuinness was chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army between 1978-1982. A very successful period for Oglaigh NA H'Eireann.

[@darthvadar441]

That's a lie thrown around by loyalism and dissidents

[@NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

The South Armagh Brigades of the PIRA were effectively autonomous. Even the oglaigh leadership had little control over the South Armagh brigades, who were bankrolling the wider IRA and had an extraordinary record of spectacular attacks. The South Armagh brigades, (there were two,) were one of the most effective guerilla armies in history.

[@PK-fk7bm]

The army should never of been on this land in the first place! 🇮🇪

[@derrickirwin9800]

Corrrect me if I am wrong but the amy came to keep the peace and left when it was peaceful, the murders brought more amy, peace brought less, but don't worry lreland is United in HEAVEN so don't miss it as there is no United Ireland in hell

[@PK-fk7bm]

@@derrickirwin9800 They certainly didn’t uphold the peace! They left death in their wake!

[@W14XXL]

Fuckwit!! It's British end of!! No Surrender!!

[@kurt44mg42]

Regardless of nationality, every soldier knows that in a war casualties are to be expected. What happened at Warrenoint was just... an occupational hazard.

[@Ian-mj4pt]

Was 18 and mountbatten

[@SeanDuffy-go1tw]

This was a strong time in the war for the PIRA , a lot of informer's we're brought on the Brits book's after this

[@valerienisbet]

❤🎉

[@brianflynn4254]

Donaldson will know all about collusion??

[@martinmcmanus2815]

We got 18 paras and mountbatton... Thats the song just saying🍀

[@eoinforde8531]

It's so sad that so many ordinary young men died far from their homes in an area they had no right to be in other than an ancient right of conquest. It really is sad. They were however, Soldiers. Pushing buttons from behind a hedge and murdering innocent people is objectively wrong. This is not so clear cut

[@ulsterman1]

How many of the perpetrators of Bloody Sunday (the same group attacked at Narrow Water) did the RUC and British Government seek to prosecute and bring before the courts? Not sure why they thought people were going to feel sympathy and start helping to bring these people before the courts when they refused to redo that very thing.

[@4allsaisons]

You really reported on an entirely surgical military operation with no civilian casualties, and act like it was a massacre of the poor RUC/PARA men who were there. Did MI5 know of this through Stakeknife?

[@joeletaxi821]

A terrible time.

[@keithmcclenaghan4469]

Given how smooth this went you'd not raise an eyebrow if it emerged army intelligence and their informers were behind this.

[@williamsteele1409]

the free staters after the volunteers you tell me their not west coasters

[@johnfarrell5075]

Hilarious listening to Sheedy an ruc man who would jail you if you had an irish name and no evidence their history is rife of wrongful arrests etc he's a clown

[@johnkeyte407]

maybe the Garda fully understood what the Brits and RUC meant by "interviewing" ?

[@brianmcmanus7213]

Tiocfaidh Ar La. Go to hell Jeffery.

[@studslannigan6286]

Rev William McRea standing four square with Billy Wright on many a uvf platform but Crip McWilliams wasn't happy about that.

[@gerardhenry5501]

One high rank soldier was vaporized and nothing found of him .

[@gerard1965able]

did a Houdinni, gave the other lapel to blair.

[@friotaiocht101]

It wasn't called "the dirty war" for nothing....

[@williamsteele1409]

same result as kilmicheal occupation forces no different

[@studslannigan6286]

Absolutely William, those free staters are hypocrites and were always happy to avoid the conflict and celebrate 1916 but leave their fellow Irishmen and Women to suffer the pogroms in the 6 counties.

[@PGa-lb8wh]

Would be alive if they had stayed in there own country

[@tommyboyd9208]

Geoffrey 😡

[@colinstewart1432]

Burns blown up moving another bomb. Scoring an own goal, as they called it...🤔

[@thomaspollock5709]

What about the murder bloody Sunday how many was caught none so it was revenge of the toung boys murdered by paras so a eye for a eye

[@jeannemariagriffin5820]

They weren't the same people!!! These soldiers had fu.k all to do with Bloody Sunday

[@ulsterman1]

@@jeannemariagriffin5820was it not the Paratroopers in both instances?

[@ulsterman1]

@@jeannemariagriffin5820how many paratroopers did the RUC charge after Bloody Sunday?? Why did they suddenly think it was so important to bring people before the courts for this atrocity? Public sympathy was zero as the paratroopers had slaughtered 14 innocent people in Derry. If the RUC had been as keen to do their job in Derry they may have saw some cooperation in future attacks.

[@milangacik994]

@@ulsterman1 Strangely Ballymurphy is forgotten. British soldiers "distinguished" themself there. British can put as many those idiotic red flowers onto their clothes - it will have no value as their morals are totally corrupted.

[@johnkiernan4586]

They wouldn't be handed over because they wouldnt have received a fair trial in UK

[@gileswelham2619]

Oh, so they deserved a fair trial?

[@DPK12]

We went for a picnic there the weekend before, I was 13

[@CraigBrown-t6r]

TAL

[@ShaneSands]

Jeffery Donaldson dirty beast

[@JohnLandau-h5g]

It should have come as no surprise to the RUC and everyone else in Northern Ireland that the Guarda would not cooperate by handing over the suspected perpetrators.The Republic of Ireland was more or less created by the IRA. The leaders of the Irish revolts from 1916 to 1923 are revered as national heroes. Nearlly all had IRA connections. During the Troubles period, the sympathy of the Republic's people was entirely with the IRA and hostile to the British security forces seeking to destroy it. The RUC should have grasped more quickly that the Guarda would never dare to hand over IRA suspects to them, and have complained less about their predictable non-cooperation.

[@taintabird23]

I can tell you somebody who lived through it, that your opinion is simplistic. By 1979 people in the south did not view the IRA as being the same as the IRA that had created the state and many were appalled by Bloody Friday, Kingsmill and other cold blooded murders of civilians. It was the year of the centenary of the birth of Patrick Pearse and the Wolf Tones were popular on the radio. It was government policy to treat the problems of NI as the British governments problem and to seal the south off from it as best it could. Relations with London were terrible. The IRA killed two members of the Garda in 1979, and another in 1980.

[@studslannigan6286]

@@taintabird23 Why would any Irishman collude with the brutal brits who were involved in the deaths of hundreds of innocent Catholics???

[@ulsterman1]

How many of the perpetrators of Bloody Sunday (the same group attacked at Narrow Water) did the RUC and British Government seek to prosecute and bring before the courts? Not sure why they thought people were going to feel sympathy and start helping to bring these people before the courts when they refused to redo that very thing.

[@studslannigan6286]

@@ulsterman1 It's very interesting that the Irish Republicans(Sinn Fein) are quite content for every death during the most recent conflagration in the 6 counties (Troubles🙄) to be forensically gone over with a fine tooth comb but the Brits and Unionists DON'T 🙄🙄 COLLUSION from the very bottom of Brit Army and Govt to the VERY TOP is WHY.

[@milangacik994]

Republic of Ireland was created by ruthless behavior of British there...

[@masterofdisaster4395]

Upa Raaaaaaa

[@JohnCostelloe-el2mr]

It was war. Simple as that. What did they expect.

[@jeannemariagriffin5820]

Was it war at Loughall?

[@JohnCostelloe-el2mr]

@jeannemariagriffin5820 Yes it was War. Armed conflict was brought to the Irish who were fully entitled to resist oppression.

[@jeannemariagriffin5820]

@@JohnCostelloe-el2mr If the PIRA had been a legitimate army with a mandate, the leaders would have been tried as war criminals for their indiscriminate bombings of civilians; not to mention their atrocities such as Claudy, Kingsmills, Le Mon, Enniskillen, etc

[@gerard1965able]

@@jeannemariagriffin5820 so would all of Westminster,NIO,Mi5,RFR,FRU,special branch,Thatcher,etc,etc.

[@johnkennedy4863]

What about the paras firing across the border killing an innocent man

[@RaulCashflow1916]

Uh based

[@ATLmodK]

Are you trying to say, without basis, or unbiased?

[@rr-mg1zc]

the bloody armalite

[@derrickirwin9800]

God will not miss his day of judgment for us all, get ready for it read Matthew chapter 24 verse 48 to 51

[@milangacik994]

Yes indeed.

[@derrickirwin9800]

@@milangacik994 thankyou, God bless

[@milangacik994]

@@derrickirwin9800 God bless You.

[@koeman1873]

All the comments on this video from so called republicans are embarrassing, Ulster remains British after all that was thrown at us, get a life. No Surrender. QS.

[@ATroubledLand]

Checked the comments - nothing needing moderation my friend

[@brianmcmanus7213]

Tiocfaidh Ar La.

[@koeman1873]

Change the record, you are only making fools of yourselves.@@brianmcmanus7213

[@justinmclaughlin4230]

Donegal is in the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪

[@koeman1873]

@@justinmclaughlin4230 Nothing to do with the Ulster I'm referring to.