Republican News · Thursday 30 November 2001

McGurks bar massacre to be remembered

A number of events organised to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the McGurk's Bar massacre are to be held next Tuesday, 4 December.

On 4 December 1971, a car containing four members of the UVF pulled up outside McGurk's Bar at the junction of North Queen Street and Great George's Street.One of the loyalists got out and left a bomb in the hallway of the bar which exploded,without warning. The entire building was destroyed and 15 people were killed. Many others were injured.

A new memorial is now to be erected on the site of the bar on Belfast's North Queen Street.