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04/12/2001
Victims of McGurk’s bar bombing remembered
A memorial was unveiled in Belfast to mark the 30th anniversary of a loyalist bombing in which 15 people died.
Men, women and children lost their lives in the one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles at The Tramore Bar - better known as McGurk’s - in North Queen Street on December 4, 1971.
Many others were injured when four loyalists, operating under a cover name for the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, bombed the bar without warning in the Catholic area of the city.
Only one of the bombers - the driver of the getaway car - was ever convicted. Seven years after the bomb, a UVF man received 15 life sentences after he was convicted of the bombing.
On Tuesday December 4, a memorial was unveiled on the site of the bar to mark the anniversary of the atrocity.
Later on a Mass was held at St Patrick’s Chapel, Donegall Street, where local residents laid fifteen wreaths on the altar to remember the dead.
A candlelit procession for peace then followed the mass, from the church to the corner of Great George’s Street. (AMcE)
Men, women and children lost their lives in the one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles at The Tramore Bar - better known as McGurk’s - in North Queen Street on December 4, 1971.
Many others were injured when four loyalists, operating under a cover name for the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, bombed the bar without warning in the Catholic area of the city.
Only one of the bombers - the driver of the getaway car - was ever convicted. Seven years after the bomb, a UVF man received 15 life sentences after he was convicted of the bombing.
On Tuesday December 4, a memorial was unveiled on the site of the bar to mark the anniversary of the atrocity.
Later on a Mass was held at St Patrick’s Chapel, Donegall Street, where local residents laid fifteen wreaths on the altar to remember the dead.
A candlelit procession for peace then followed the mass, from the church to the corner of Great George’s Street. (AMcE)
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