On 20 December 1972 along the Strabane Old Road , the Top of the Hill bar was packed with customers watching a football match . At about 10:30 pm two men from the UDA burst into the bar , one of them was carrying a Sterling submachine gun and the other was holding a pistol , they were both wearing hoods to disguise their identities . The men instantly and indiscriminately sprayed the main room in the bar with bullets . The attack was reported to have lasted less than a minute but it still managed to leave five people dead and four others wounded . Those killed in the attack were all males and included , Charlie McCafferty ( 31 ) , Frank McCarron ( 58 ) , Charles Moore ( 31 ) , Barney Kelly ( 26 ) and Michael McGinley ( 37 ) . At the time this was the largest and most deadly attack carried out by the UDA , they would not carry out another attack of this size until February 1992 , when they shot dead five civilians and injured nine in the Sean Graham bookmakers ' shooting on the Ormeau Road in Belfast
Sean Graham bookmakers ' shooting
Sean Graham bookmakers' shooting
Top of the Hill bar shooting