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The Store Bar shootings
Part of the Troubles
The Store Bar shooting is located in Northern Ireland
The Store Bar shooting
LocationLyle Hill Road, Templepatrick, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Coordinates54°10′22″N 6°36′53″W / 54.172836°N 6.614594°W / 54.172836; -6.614594
Date25 June 1976
Attack type
mass shooting
Weaponsassault rifle AR-15
Deaths3
Injured6
PerpetratorRepublican Action Force

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 Hill Road in Templepatrick, County Antrim.

Attack

The Republican group sprayed the pub with an AR-15 assault rifle killing three people and injuring about a half a dozen. The victims were Ruby Kidd (28), Francis Walker (17) and Joseph McBride (56), all Protestant civilians.[1]

Aftermath

A week after the bar shooting the UVF carried out a gun attack on a Catholic-owned pub, the Ramble Inn, six people were killed in the attack five of them Protestants and just one Catholic which was considered a failure or "own goal" by the UVF. The shooting was carried out because the bar owners where Catholics.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Chronology of the Conflict: 1976". Conflict Archive on the Internet. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
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