 Wright boasted that he and his Mid-Ulster unit had "put the East Tyrone Brigade of the IRA on the run" and "decimated" them.The IRA tried unsuccessfully to kill Wright on five occasions; on 23 October 1992 they planted a bomb under his car but it fell off.In June 1994, Wright again checked his car after the RUC told him that a man had been seen crouching suspiciously beside the vehicle in West Street, Portadown.