On the massacre at Teebane, 17th January 1992
January 24th 2026
The Workers Party remembers with great sadness the murder of eight workers brutally killed and their fellow workers who were fortunate to survive but left with physical and psychological injuries as a result of a roadside bomb detonated at a rural crossroads between Cookstown and Omagh on 17 January 1992.
The men killed at Teebane were not combatants; they were workers labouring to provide for themselves and their families. This vile attack carried out by the Provisionals as part of their so-called “war” was, in fact, another sectarian atrocity directed against working people. It deepened fear in the community, fuelled retaliatory killings and strengthened the very forces of division that have long sought to keep the working class in Northern Ireland divided. No attempts at “justification” offered then or since can ever diminish the murderous sectarian brutality of what happened at Teebane.
Today, the Workers Party continues to stand with the working class against sectarian and racist elements which seek to divide them. We remember the dead and injured at Teebane and the enormous suffering of their families and support their continuing quest for justice.