Within five years the IRA 's East Tyrone Brigade would launch two more high-profile attacks in Ballygawley . In 1985 during the Attack on Ballygawley barracks an IRA unit led by Patrick Joseph Kelly & Jim Lynagh attacked the Ballygawley RUC barracks shooting dead two RUC officers who were at the front of the station , a 200 lb bomb destroyed the whole barracks and injured 3 more RUC officers . In 1988 the IRA killed eight British soldiers and injured twenty eight others during the Ballygawley bus bombing , a lot of Republicans saw this as revenge for the Loughgall Ambush the year before when the SAS shot dead 8 IRA Volunteers
Ballygawley bus bombing
Ballygawley bus bombing
Ballygawley land mine attack