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27 March: A bomb exploded at St Malachy's College on the Antrim Road in Belfast. The UVF is suspected. [28] 28 March: A bomb exploded at St Malachy's College old boys' club on the Crumlin Road in Belfast. The UVF is suspected. [28] 2 May: British security forces uncovered a UVF store of gelignite explosive at Nutt's Corner outside Belfast. [36]
The Avenue Bar shooting occurred on 15 May 1988 as the Ulster Volunteer Force launched a gun attack on the Avenue Bar on Union Street in the city centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing three Catholic civilians and wounding six others. The bar was close to the Unity Flats complex and as a result was frequented mostly by Catholics.
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 Troubles. [43] The following year, 1972, was the most violent of the Troubles.
13 March – 1975 Conway's Bar attack: A UVF member blew himself up along with a Catholic civilian woman while attempting to plant a bomb in a Belfast pub. 5 April – Mountainview Tavern attack: A group calling itself the Republican Action Force bombed a pub in Belfast, killing four Protestant civilians and a UDA member, and injured 50 people.
Loyalists, especially the UVF, responded with another wave of sectarian attacks against Catholics. Two days after, a loyalist car bomb exploded without warning on the Falls Road, injuring 35 people. [18] On 22 August, the UVF launched a gun and bomb attack on McGleenan's Bar in Armagh. The attack was strikingly similar to that at Bayardo.
The 1994 Shankill Road killings took place on 16 June 1994 when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot dead three Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) members – high-ranking member of the UVF Belfast Brigade staff Trevor King and two other UVF members, Colin Craig and David Hamilton – on the Shankill Road in Belfast, close to the UVF headquarters.
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.
12 July: a UDA volunteer shot dead an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) volunteer attending Eleventh night celebrations in Larne. Loyalist feud. [250] 21 August: the UVF shot dead two UDA volunteers sitting in a jeep on Crumlin Road, Belfast. Loyalist feud. 23 August: the UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a UVF volunteer on Summer Street ...