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The Troubles in Gilford
The Troubles
in
Gilford
recounts incidents during, and the
effects
of, The Troubles in Gilford,
County Down, Northern Ireland
.
Incidents in Gilford during
the Troubles
resulting in two or more fatalities:
1975
1
August 1975
–
Joseph Toland
and
James Marks
, both Catholics, were shot during a loyalist attack on a
minibus
near Gilford. Marks, owner of the
bus company
, died on 7
January 1976
.
31
December 1975
- Sylvia McCullough, Richard Beattie and
William Scott
, all
Protestant
civilians, were killed in a
People’s Republican Army
bomb attack
on the Central Bar, Gilford.
1976
4 January 1976 - Barry O'Dowd, Declan O'Dowd and Joseph O'Dowd, all
Catholic
civilians and members of the
Social Democratic and Labour Party
, were shot dead during an
Ulster Volunteer Force
gun attack on their home, Ballydougan, near Gilford.