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The IRA's Belfast Brigade launched an operation to assassinate the UDA's top commanders, whom they believed were at the meeting. [1] [2] The plan allegedly was for two IRA members to enter the shop with a time bomb, force out the customers at gunpoint, and flee before it exploded, killing those at the meeting. [1]
Fusco was born in west Belfast in 1956, [2] to a family with an Italian background who owned a fish and chip shop. [1] He joined the Belfast Brigade of the IRA and was part of a four-man active service unit, along with Joe Doherty and Paul Magee, which operated in the late 1970s and early 1980s nicknamed the "M60 gang" due to their use of an M60 machine gun.
The Bognor one detonated damaging shops but no casualties; the Brighton one was defused. [56] 12 September – 1994 Dublin-Belfast train bombing: The UVF planted a bomb on the Belfast-Dublin train. At Connolly station, the bomb only partially exploded, slightly injuring two women. [57] [58]
1 April: The IRA exploded a large bomb in Belfast city centre, damaging a number of shops but causing no deaths or serious injuries. [5] 26 June: two IRA volunteers, Joseph Coyle and Thomas McCool, were killed in a premature explosion of an incendiary device at the McCool home at Dunree Gardens, Creggan, Derry. McCool's two young daughters ...
The road stretches westwards for about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from central Belfast and is lined, to an extent, by shops. The residents live in the many streets which branch off the main road. The area along the Shankill Road forms part of the Court district electoral area .
That year, a string of tit-for-tat pub bombings began in Belfast. [42] This came to a climax on 4 December, when the UVF bombed McGurk's Bar, a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast. Fifteen Catholic civilians were killed and seventeen wounded. It was the UVF's deadliest attack in Northern Ireland, and the deadliest attack in Belfast during the ...
Jackie McDonald, the incumbent South Belfast UDA brigadier, worked as dispatches manager for the Balmoral Furniture Company. [15] The leader of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF, the name the UDA used to claim attacks), John White , who was convicted of the double murder of Senator Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews in 1973, used the Balmoral ...
20 April: The UVF critically injured a Catholic man in a shooting at an erotic book shop in Gresham Street, Belfast. [210] 28 April: The UVF shot dead a Catholic, James Brown, in his shop on Garmoyle Street, Belfast. Former IRA member Gerry Bradley subsequently wrote that in the 1970s Brown had been the second-in-command of the IRA in Belfast.