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
Result	British victory; IRA ambush thwarted
Belligerents
Provisional IRA	UK British Army (SAS);
Commanders and leaders
Kieran Fleming	Lance Corporal Alistair Slater †
Strength
4 IRA volunteers	unknown
Casualties and losses
2 killed (1 died from drowning); 2 captured	1 killed
	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.

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