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...
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The Store Bar shooting was a mass shooting on 25 June 1976 by the Republican Action Force at The Store Bar (which was also known as Walkers Bar) on Lyle...
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Greysteel massacre (redirect from Rising Sun Bar massacre)
packed crowd in the lounge. He kept shooting until the magazine emptied, quickly reloaded, and continued shooting. Geoffrey Deeney opened fire with a...
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Bloody Sunday (1972) (section Shankill shootings)
accounts" to justify their firing. The soldiers denied shooting the named victims but also denied shooting anyone by mistake. On publication of the report,...
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The Top of the Hill bar shooting, or Annie's Bar massacre, was a mass shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland on 20 December 1972, during the Troubles. Five...
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and Moore in the toilets of the Windsor Bar on 29 January 1977. McAllister received a minor punishment shooting for the murder of Easton. Members of the...
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celebrations. He planned to have it unfurled as the procession passed the Rex Bar, a UVF haunt, in order to antagonise the UVF and try and drag it into conflict...
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Ballymurphy massacre (redirect from Ballymurphy shootings)
August. While a number of eyewitnesses stated that soldiers were seen shooting towards the area, the 2021 inquest could not establish who had killed him...
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Home Affairs, Robert Porter, for the Shorlands to be withdrawn and the shooting to stop. Porter replied that this was impossible as "the whole town is...
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an IRA shooting in 1997. This would make it the first sectarian killing for almost two years. The next day, loyalists retaliated by shooting dead Catholic...
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group was a secret informal alliance of Ulster loyalists who carried out shooting and bombing attacks against Catholics and Irish nationalists in the 1970s...
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was a hold-up but then the shooting started and somebody yelled, 'Hit the deck'. I just lay there and prayed that the shooting would stop. It seemed to...
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attack at the village of Cappagh, shooting dead three Provisional IRA members and a Catholic civilian at Boyle's Bar. The IRA subsequently stated its belief...
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down Peter Watterson, a 15-year-old Catholic boy, in a drive-by sectarian shooting at the Falls Road/Donegall Road junction. A roofer by trade who was married...
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Loughinisland massacre (category Attacks on bars in Northern Ireland)
members – Trevor King, Colin Craig and David Hamilton – in a drive-by shooting on the Shankill Road in Belfast. Senior UVF members had been meeting in...
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onto a blanket-thread string, tying the other end to a button, and then "shooting the button" across the corridor under cell doors. External communication...
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Crossing mass shooting on 4th of July WMAQ-TV, July 4, 2024 Raucoules, Gregory (July 11, 2024). "Suspect in fatal shooting at Knoxville bar dies from self-inflicted...
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Timeline of Ulster Volunteer Force actions (redirect from 1975 Conway's Bar attack)
Street, Belfast. 15 May: Avenue Bar shooting – The "Protestant Action Force" claimed responsibility for a gun attack on Avenue Bar, Union Street, Belfast...
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tit-for-tat bombings and shootings by loyalists and republicans, which contributed to making 1972 the bloodiest year of the conflict. Tramore Bar, commonly called...
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INLA was the shooting of OIRA leader Sean Garland in Dublin on 1 March. Although shot six times, he survived. After several more shootings (according to...
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The Troubles (section Shoot-to-kill allegations)
the Whiterock Road shooting of two unarmed Catholic civilians by British soldiers on 15 April 1972, and the Andersonstown shooting of seven unarmed Catholic...
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was responsible. 10 January 1975 - The UVF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Provisional IRA volunteer John Francis Green at a farmhouse in Tullynageer...
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Miami Showband killings (section Shootings)
hiding on the minibus exploded prematurely. The other gunmen then started shooting the dazed band members, killing three and wounding two. It has been suggested...
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killed and wounded a number of unarmed Catholic civilians in drive-by shootings. The British Army initially claimed the civilians had been armed, but...
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Several others lost limbs and a man was impaled through the abdomen by an iron bar. Several bodies lay in the street for half an hour as ambulances struggled...
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