1992 had witnessed an intensification in the campaign of violence being carried out by the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) under their UFF covername . In February the UDA South Belfast Brigade had shot dead 5 Catholic civilians in Sean Graham 's bookmakers on the lower Ormeau Road , in retaliation for the 8 Protestants killed in the Teebane bombing by the IRA the previous month . The UDA West Belfast Brigade , led by notorious UFF commander Johnny Adair , had been particularly active throughout the year , killing several Catholic civilians , including young mother Philomena Hanna , who was shot dead at the chemist where she worked on the Springfield Road , and 18 year old Gerard O'Hara , who was shot dead in front of his mother at his home in the New Lodge . In the same month as the Gerard O'Hara killing , the brigade also sprayed the Dockers club in the Sailortown area of Belfast , wounding three Catholics . Major loss of life was averted because one of the doorman managed to close the door before the gunmen were able to get fully inside the club . On 13 November , an IRA van bomb had exploded in the centre of the predominantly unionist town of Coleraine , causing extensive damage
Teebane bombing
Teebane bombing
Attack on James Murray's bookmakers