According to journalist Peter Taylor , the attack was carried out by the IRA in retaliation for the UVF 's ambush of the Dublin-based Miami Showband on 31 July 1975 which had resulted in the shooting deaths of three bandmembers . One of the five people killed in the Bayardo attack was UVF man , Hugh Harris
shooting deaths of three bandmembers
Miami Showband killings
Brendan McFarlane