1991 Cappagh killings

1991 Cappagh killings
Part of the Troubles
1991 Cappagh killings is located in Northern Ireland
1991 Cappagh killings
LocationBoyle's Bar,
Cappagh, County Tyrone
Northern Ireland
Coordinates54°32′29.40″N 6°55′27.19″W / 54.5415000°N 6.9242194°W / 54.5415000; -6.9242194
Date3 March 1991
10:30 pm
Attack type
Shooting
Deaths4
Injured1
PerpetratorUlster Volunteer Force

The 1991 Cappagh killings was a gun attack by the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) on 3 March 1991 in the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. A unit of the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade drove to the staunchly republican village and shot dead three Provisional IRA members and a Catholic civilian at Boyle's Bar.

Although nobody was ever charged in connection with the killings, it was widely believed by nationalists and much of the press that the attack had been planned and led by Billy Wright, the leader of the Mid-Ulster Brigade's Portadown unit. Wright himself took credit for this and boasted to The Guardian newspaper, "I would look back and say Cappagh was probably our best", though some sources are sceptical about his claim.

There were allegations of collusion between the UVF and the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) in the shootings.