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31 January - Terence McCafferty (37) and James McCloskey (29), both Catholic civilians, were shot dead during a gun attack by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) on a workers' hut at a Northern Ireland Electricity Service building site, Rush Park.
The Northern Irish Troubles resulted in 11 deaths in or near the mainly Protestant County Antrim town of Ballymena. Eight people were killed by various loyalist groups, and three by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Two of the IRA victims were members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary; the other victim was a civilian.
Columba McVeigh, a 19-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, disappeared in 1975. The IRA alleges he had confessed to being a British Army agent, instructed to infiltrate the IRA. [16] Brendan Megraw disappeared in 1978. In August 2014 a bog in County Meath was searched for his body, [17] with human remains discovered in September. [18]
Uniformed Special Constables arrested four Catholic men at their homes outside the village, took two sets of brothers into a country lane and summarily executed all four men. [151] [152] The IRA also attacked Martinstown RIC barracks in County Antrim with gunfire and grenades and ambushed a group of USC reinforcements, killing one. [153]
6 February: A Catholic civilian, Colette Brown (aged 31), was found shot dead by the side of Killyglen Road, Larne, County Antrim. She had been "sentenced to death" by a loyalist group for allegedly passing information to the IRA. Two men were convicted for her killing: one a UVF member and the other a UDR lance-corporal. [89]
2 October 1971: an IRA volunteer (Terence McDermott, aged 19) died after the bomb he was transporting to an electricity sub-station at Lambeg, near Lisburn, County Antrim, exploded prematurely. [25] 3 October 1971: an Agriculture Ministry imports inspector (Patrick Daly, aged 57) from Moira, County Down was shot dead by the IRA. [25] [48]
The Massereene Barracks shooting took place at Massereene Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland. On 7 March 2009, two off-duty British soldiers of the 38 Engineer Regiment were shot dead outside the barracks. Two other soldiers and two civilian delivery men were also shot and wounded during the attack.
Next the UVF carried out a gun and bomb attack on McKenna's Bar near Crumlin in County Antrim which killed a Catholic civilian John Stewart (35) and injured scores of people. [6] In Killyleagh, County Down, a no-warning bomb exploded outside a Catholic-owned bar, The Anchor Inn. Irene Nicholson (37), a Protestant woman, was killed as she was ...