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McGurk's Bar bombing

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BELFAST BOMB

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The McGurks Bar Massacre - BBC News Report

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Support an inquest into the McGurks Bar Bombing

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Justice for McGurk's Bar Families

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McGurks massacre families demand new inquest

On 4 December 1971, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, detonated a bomb at McGurk's Bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The pub was frequented by Irish Catholics/nationalists. The explosion caused the building to collapse, killing fifteen Catholic civilians—including two children—and wounding seventeen more. It was the deadliest attack in Belfast during the Troubles.
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