Harris Boyle ( 1953 &ndash; 31 July 1975 ) was an Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) soldier and a high-ranking member of the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) , a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary organisation . Boyle was implicated in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings , and took part in the attack at Buskhill , County Down when an armed UVF gang wearing British Army uniforms ambushed The Miami Showband at a bogus military checkpoint . The popular Irish cabaret band was driving home to Dublin after a performance in Banbridge . He was one of the two gunmen killed when the bomb they were loading onto the band 's minibus exploded prematurely . He is sometimes referred to as Horace Boyle
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