Tag: Ulster Resistance
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The Resistance Men.

© Deirdre Younge. Introduction. ‘What were they trying to do around here .. create civil war?‘ (Willie Frazer, referring to the intelligence services operating in the 1970s in Armagh. (2016)) During the ‘Troubles’ Armagh and Tyrone were the cockpit of a vicious war which descended into sectarianism fuelled by collusion. Intelligence material submitted to civil…
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The strange death of Harry Breen. By Deirdre Younge.

In April 2017, Village magazine published this article by Deirdre Younge which revealed another side to Chief Superintendent Harry Breen of the RUC. Breen was shot dead by the IRA in 1989. He served as Commander H Division (Armagh and parts of Down) from March 1988 to ’89. His death was the subject of the…

