1972
- 2, 3 & 9 UDR along with 5 Airportable Brigade, deploy to Newry and seal the town off to prevent violence occurring at a civil rights march protesting against Bloody Sunday.
- October - 9 UDR mobilised and billeted at Grand Central Hotel, Royal Avenue, Belfast, to help guard the city centre segment. 1,000 UDR soldiers deployed into Protestant east Belfast to defuse tensions between the UDA and regular Army.
- October - Following an explosion in Newtownstewart, a mobile UDR patrol mounted a follow-up operation. A youth seen scaling a 15-foot security fence near the scene was challenged and did not respond so the patrol opened fire, killing him. It transpired that the youth, 16-year-old Alec Moorehead was almost totally deaf.
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