The Smithwick Tribunal was an Irish Tribunal of Inquiry into the events surrounding the killing of Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Robert Buchanan of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). The men were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush near the Irish border at Jonesborough on 20 March 1989 as they returned in an unmarked car from a cross-border security conference in Dundalk with senior Garda officers.
The Smithwick Tribunal was an inquiry into the deaths of two RUC officers, Harry Breen and Robert Buchanan, who were killed by the IRA near the Irish border on March 20, 1989. They were returning from a security conference in Dundalk in an unmarked car.