 The rest of the victims were killed by members of the Provisional IRA.The village, famed as being a Republican stronghold, was also the scene of another two significant events in the early 1990s.On 24 March 1990, there was a gun battle between an IRA unit and undercover British security forces when a civilian-type vehicle driven by an undercover agent was fired on by IRA volunteers without warning, according to Archie Hamilton, then Minister of State for the Armed Forces.