MIAMI MURDERS: LOYALISTS CELEBRATE

Date: August 7, 2025 - Northwind

Doug Beattie

Doug Beattie


July 31 was the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband massacre in which members of the notorious Glenanne gang – made up of UVF, RUC and UDR members – killed three of the band. The gunmen were UVF/UDR members. Two of them, Harris Boyle and Wesley Somerville, died when the bomb they were planting in… Read more »

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