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Hugh Torney (c.1954 – 3 September 1996) was an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) paramilitary leader best known for his activities on behalf of the INLA and Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) in a feud with the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO), a grouping composed of disgruntled former INLA members, in the mid-1980s.
Sep 4, 1996 · In September 1994, Torney, then a leading member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, escaped a loyalist murder bid when gunmen sledgehammered his front door and searched the house.
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Sep 5, 1996 · The police said Hugh Torney, 42, was killed when gunmen opened fire on him and a companion Tuesday night on a street in Lurgan, 20 miles southwest of Belfast.
A three month feud erupted in which 12 people died. Torney was in the thick of it. At the outset, he had been present in the Rosnaree Hotel, outside Drogheda, when he and two associates,...
The 1994 Shankill Road killings took place on 16 June 1994 when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot dead three Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) members – high-ranking member of the UVF Belfast Brigade staff Trevor King and two other UVF members, Colin Craig and David Hamilton – on the Shankill Road in Belfast, close to the ...
- 16 June 1994
It was alleged that Gino Gallagher carried out the ambush on the orders of Hugh Torney. Another internal INLA feud broke out in 1996. Both Hugh Torney and Gino Gallagher claimed to be the legitimate leaders of the INLA. The Torney faction was known as INLA-GHQ and the Gallagher faction as the INLA Army Council.
Sep 4, 1996 · THE shooting dead of Hugh Torney in Lurgan effectively ends the latest round of INLA feuding which has left a trail of death, including that of a nine-year-old girl. Torney was the leader of...
