Kesh ambush

Kesh ambush
	Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner
	; Drumrush Lodge, close to where the ambush took place
Date	2 December 1984
Location	Kesh, County Fermanagh; Northern Ireland54°31′19.2″N 7°43′22.8″W / 54.522000°N 7.723000°W
Result	British victory IRA ambush thwarted;
Belligerents
Provisional IRA	UK British Army (SAS);
Commanders and leaders
Kieran Fleming †	Alistair Slater †
Strength
4 IRA volunteers	Unknown
Casualties and losses
2 killed (1 died from drowning); 2 captured	1 killed
	class=notpageimage\| Kesh shown inside Northern Ireland

On 2 December 1984, a four-man Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit was ambushed by a British Army Special Air Service team while attempting to bomb a Royal Ulster Constabulary patrol who they had lured to Drumrush Lodge Restaurant. Two IRA volunteers and one SAS soldier were killed during the action.^[1]