Timeline of Ulster Defence Regiment Operations - 1984

1984

• 14 March - An off-duty NCO from 10 UDR captures 3 members of the UFF who had just shot and wounded Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams. After giving chase in his own car he co-opted the services of an off-duty policeman and both held the terrorists at gunpoint until a police patrol arrived to detain them.
• May - 3 UDR (much reduced because a large contingent was training in England) is ordered to mount a major search. Troops are attached from three regular battalions and the RAF Regiment and two police DMSU units are also brought under command of the battalion. On the second day of the search a team from 1 RHF finds ten beer kegs containing 2,000 lbs of explosives, a sack containing 1,000 lbs more, cortex fuse, detonators and a van with false number plates.