According to Sean McPhilemy , Mitchell 's farm was also used to launch a car bomb attack outside the Step Inn Bar in Clontibret , County Monaghan . McPhilemy states that the August 1976 bombing , which killed two civilians , was planned by Mitchell , Weir , Irvine ( whom McPhilemy calls Irwin ) and a number of unidentified loyalist paramilitaries . No charges have been brought in relation to the attack . McPhilemy further claims that Mitchell directly conspired with Robin Jackson to carry out two gun attacks on Catholic family homes in Gilford and Whitecross , County Armagh on 4 January 1976 , resulting in the killings of three members of the O'Dowd family and three from the Reavey family respectively
two gun attacks
Reavey and O'Dowd killings
James Mitchell (loyalist)