In March 1993 , an IRA unit from Ardoyne shot dead UDA member Norman Truesdale in his shop at the junction of the Oldpark Road and Century Street in the lower Oldpark area . At the time of the attack his family claimed he had no paramilitary connections , but his brother has since stated his belief in an article to the Sunday Life that he was involved in the shooting at James Murray 's bookmakers , and a UDA mural was erected in the area in his memory . He was also named by Lister and Jordan as team commander of C9 and an active gunman . IRA efforts to assassinate Johnny Adair also intensified , culminating in the Shankill Road bombing when an attempt by the IRA to wipe out the UDA leadership , including Adair , resulted in the deaths of 9 innocent Protestant civilians , and one of the IRA bombers , as the bomb exploded prematurely or so they said
Shankill Road bombing
Shankill Road bombing
Attack on James Murray's bookmakers