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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.
His widow had lost her brother, Brian McCoy, in the UVF attack on the Miami Showband in 1975. [62] 18 May – Gavin McShane (17) and Shane McArdle (17), both Catholic civilians, were shot dead by the Ulster Volunteer Force, while in a taxi depot, Lower English Street, Armagh. [63] Gavin McShane died instantly and Shane McArdle 24 hours later.
Robert William McConnell (c. 1944 – 5 April 1976), was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary who allegedly carried out or was an accomplice to a number of sectarian attacks and killings, although he never faced any charges or convictions. [1]
The UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade, based in the Craigavon, Portadown and Lurgan area, stepped up its attacks in the early 1990s. On 3 March 1991, it carried out a gun attack on a pub in Cappagh, County Tyrone, killing three Provisional IRA members and a Catholic civilian.
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.
Kevin McKearney, 32, was shot dead by a UVF gunman inside his family-run butcher shop in the village of Moy, Co Tyrone, in January 1992. His uncle Jack McKearney, 69, was wounded in the same ...
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).