Stag Inn attack

Stag Inn Attack
Part of the Troubles
The Stag Inn
LocationMilltown Road, Belvoir Park Forest, Belfast
Date30 July 1976
8.00 pm (GMT)
TargetProtestants,
Loyalists, Ulster Unionists
Attack type
Mass shooting
WeaponsAutomatic rifles
Deaths4
Injured6
PerpetratorProvisional IRA's Belfast Brigade under the covername Republican Action Force (RAF)

The Stag Inn attack was a sectarian gun attack, on 30 July 1976, carried out by a group of Belfast IRA Volunteers using the cover name Republican Action Force. Four Protestants, all civilians, the youngest being 48 years old and the eldest 70, were all killed in the attack with several others being injured.[1] Three Catholics were killed the previous day in a Loyalist bomb attack, part of a string of sectarian attacks in Northern Ireland by different paramilitary organizations.[1][2]

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  2. ^ Cadwallader, Anne (18 October 2013). Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland (Paperback 1st ed.). Mercier Press. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-1-78117-188-2.