An eight-man IRA unit wiped out by SAS gunmen after they launched a bomb attack on an Armagh police station nearly 25 years ago opened fire first on the undercover soldiers, it has been claimed.

THAT was great stuff by your columnist Fergus Finlay (October 14). This is the kind of inspiring journalism that newspaper readers are crying out for.

POLICE chiefs have finally admitted the SAS were called in to kill eight IRA men during a major security operation, the dead men’s families claimed last night.

Police chiefs have finally admitted the SAS were called in to kill eight IRA men during a major security operation, the terrorists’ families claimed tonight.

When the SAS gunned down eight IRA men as they prepared to blow up a Co Armagh police station in 1987, one of the Provisionals’ deadliest units was devastated.

European judges will rule today on whether the Government was guilty of violating the human rights of IRA members shot dead in Northern Ireland by British troops and the RUC.