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The Greysteel massacre occurred on the evening of the October 30, 1993 when three members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters, an Ulster Loyalist organisation headed by Johnny Adair, entered the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry. Inside was a Halloween party in full swing, and so the masked men were not noticed until they produced an AK-47 and an automatic pistol, and started shooting into the packed crowd. One of the men is reported to have yelled "trick or treat" as he opened fire. October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a Northern Irish Loyalist paramilitary organisation outlawed as a terrorist group in the UK and Republic of Ireland, which is perceived by its supporters as defending the unionist community from Irish nationalism. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Unionists (Ireland). ...
Johnny Adair (nickname: Mad Dog) was the leader of the notorious C Company of the loyalist paramilitary organisation Ulster Freedom Fighters, a part of the Ulster Defence Association. ...
Greysteel is a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 14 kilometres to the west of Derry and 11 kilometres to the east of Limavady, on the main A2 coast road between Limavady and Derry overlooking Lough Foyle. ...
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Halloween is an observance celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets or money. ...
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A semi-automatic pistol is a handgun commonly used as a sidearm by police and military all over the world. ...
The bar was targeted because it was was in a Catholic area, and thus represented a "Nationalist electorate", according to the UFF statment released the next day. In fact, two of the eight people killed in this attack were Protestants, and no victims had any known political role or affiliation within the Troubles. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...
The Troubles is a term used to describe two periods of violence in Ireland during the twentieth century. ...
The UFF claim that they conducted the attack as a "revenge" killing, following the Provisional Irish Republican Army's killing of nine people in the Shankill Road bombing seven days before, in a failed attempt on the life of Johnny Adair and other senior loyalists. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the RA) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organisation dedicated to the end of British rule in Northern Ireland and to a United Ireland. ...
Shortly after the massacre, four men were arrested, tried and convicted for the attack. Three had been "shooters", one of whom's gun was faulty, whilst the other had been the getaway driver. All three men were later released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. They are Torrens Knight, Stephen Irwin, Jeffrey Deeney and Brian McNeill. The Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement and, more rarely, as the Stormont Agreement) was signed in Belfast on April 10, 1998 by the British and Irish Governments and endorsed by most Northern Ireland political parties. ...
The bar is still open in Greysteel, although now on the outside of the building near the door there is a memorial to those killed in the attack which says:
May their sacrifice be our path to peace.
This period in the Troubles was associated with protracted "tit for tat" killings committed by both sides. In the week preceding the Greysteel massacre, Loyalist paramilitaries from the Ulster Freedom Fighters, Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association had committed six sectarian killings, all of them seemingly at random as a response to the Shankill Road bombing on the 23 October. The Ulster Volunteer Force (more commonly referred to as the UVF) is a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. ...
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland, outlawed as a terrorist group in the UK and Republic of Ireland, which is perceived by its supporters as defending the unionist community from Irish Republican terrorism. ...
Victims
- John Burns, 54
- Moira Duddy, 59
- Joseph McDermott, 60
- James Moore, 81
- John Moyne, 50
- Steven Mullan, 20
- Karen Thompson, 19
On the 14 April 1994 another man, 76 year old Victor Montgomery, died in hospital, having never recovered from the injuries he received in this attack. April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
See also The whole of Northern Ireland has, in some way, been caught up in the Troubles and subsequent peace process. ...
External links - BBC News Report on 10 year anniversary
- CAIN Report photograph of the site
- Article on the subject of the Loyalists and Greysteel
- Belfast Telegraph article linking Johnny Adair to the massacre
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