Loughgall ambush 8th of May 1987 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 SAS Ambush Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' The Loughgall ambush took place on 8 May 1987 in the village of Loughgall, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. An eight-man unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) launched an attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base in the village. An IRA member drove a digger with a bomb in its bucket through the perimeter fence, while the rest of the unit arrived in a van and