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In the next attack Thomas Murphy (29), a Catholic photographer from Belfast, was killed in a booby-trap bomb and gun attack, when two UVF gunmen entered his premises on Carlisle Circus (close to both the loyalist Shankill Road and republican New Lodge areas of Belfast) and shot him in the chest, before planting a duffel bag bomb in his shop.
The Reavey and O'Dowd killings were two coordinated gun attacks on 4 January 1976 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.Six Catholic civilians died after members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, broke into their homes and shot them.
RUC officer John Weir claims that a fellow RUC officer confessed to partaking in the attack, alongside a UDR soldier and UVF members. [29] The attack has been linked to the Glenanne gang. 4 January 1976: Reavey and O'Dowd killings. [14] At about 6pm, gunmen broke into the Reavey family home in Whitecross, County Armagh.
12 October: The UVF wounded a Catholic civilian in a gun attack in North Belfast. [178] 19 October: A Catholic man escaped injury in Lurgan, County Armagh after his UVF assailant's gun jammed. [199] 24 October: The UVF claimed to have aborted an attack on the home of a Sinn Féin member in the Antrim area. [200]
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland.Formed in 1965, [7] it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former Royal Ulster Rifles soldier from Northern Ireland.
About 15 people had been injured in the attack, some of them seriously. [9] [10] On the same day as the Charlemont attacks the members of the UVF's Belfast Brigade carried out another bomb attack on a public house, called the Avenue Bar, on Union Street in the city center of Belfast killing two more Catholic civilians in the process.
On 28 March 1991 a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, shot dead three Catholic civilians at a mobile shop in Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. [1] The gunman boarded the van and shot two teenage girls working there, then forced a male customer to lie on the pavement and shot him also.
The second attack occurred on the 15 May 1976 (exactly 12 years to the day before the 1988 shooting) when a UVF unit threw a bomb into the bar, the following explosion killed two Catholic civilians and injured several others inside the bar. [3] The two people killed in the attack were, Henry McMahon (39) & Francis Heaney (46). [4]