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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.
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.
Next the UVF carried out a gun and bomb attack on McKenna's Bar near Crumlin in County Antrim which killed a Catholic civilian John Stewart (35) and injured scores of people. [6] In Killyleagh, County Down, a no-warning bomb exploded outside a Catholic-owned bar, The Anchor Inn. Irene Nicholson (37), a Protestant woman, was killed as she was ...
The UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade, based in the Craigavon area, stepped up its attacks in the early 1990s.At this time it was led by Billy Wright from Portadown.In March 1991, the UVF shot dead three Catholic civilians (two teenage girls and a man) at a mobile shop in Craigavon (see 1991 Drumbeg killings).
Although the Sutton Database lists him as a civilian, [1] Lost Lives lists him as a UVF member. It also notes that he had received a two-year suspended sentence for handling ammunition, which he was said to have bought from an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier. His son Leslie Corrigan (19) was wounded in the attack and died on 25 October ...
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 Battle at Springmartin [2] was a series of gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 13–14 May 1972, as part of The Troubles.It involved the British Army, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
The UVF had launched its first attack in the Republic of Ireland on 5 August 1969, when it bombed the RTÉ Television Centre in Dublin. [36] [37] There were further attacks in the Republic between October and December 1969. In October, UVF and UPV member Thomas McDowell was killed by the bomb he was planting at Ballyshannon power station.