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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]
All three attacks have been linked to the Glenanne gang. [8] On 22 August, the UVF launched a gun and bomb attack on McGleenan's Bar in Armagh, killing three Catholic civilians and wounding many others. [7] The Glenanne gang has been linked to the attack, [6] which was allegedly retaliation for an IRA attack in Belfast.
19 April – Agnes Wallace (40), a Prison Officer, was killed and three female colleagues were injured in an Irish National Liberation Army gun and grenade attack outside Armagh women's prison. They had just left the prison when a hand grenade was thrown from a passing car and shots were fired. [16]
According to loyalist sources, UVF members were responsible. [75] 2 August 1975: shooting at Fane Valley Park, Altnamacken, County Armagh. [citation needed] 22 August 1975: gun and bomb attack on McGleenan's Bar in the city of Armagh. A masked gunman burst into the crowded pub and opened fire while another planted a bomb.
19 April: the INLA shot dead a prison officer (Agnes Wallace) during a gun and grenade attack outside Armagh Prison, four other officers were injured in the attack. [ 79 ] 30 April: a UDR soldier narrowly escaped serious injury after a booby-trap bomb exploded under his car at the junction of Linenhall Street and Bridge Street, Ballymena ...
13 August 1975: four Protestant civilians and a member of the UVF were killed in a gun and bomb attack on the Bayardo Bar in Belfast. [170] 13 August 1975: the IRA kidnapped and shot dead a former RUC officer in County Armagh; his body was found near Newtownhamilton on 15 August 1975. [169]
The bombing killed two people and injured dozens. About three hours later a gun and bomb attack on a pub in Silverbridge, County Armagh, killed three more people. It's believed both attacks were carried out by the Glenanne gang and that both attacks were co-ordinated by the same unit. [47] [48]
McConnell is named by Weir to have been involved in a gun and bomb attack against a pub in Crossmaglen in November 1974, resulting in the fatal injury of Thomas McNamee. [1] Weir also alleged that he was one of the accomplices in the killing of high-ranking IRA member John Francis Green outside Castleblaney in the Irish Republic on 10 January 1975.