McConnell is named by Weir to have been involved in a gun and bomb attack against a pub in Crossmaglen in November 1974 , resulting in the fatal injury of Thomas McNamee . Weir also alleged that he was one of the accomplices in the killing of high-ranking IRA member John Francis Green outside Castleblaney in the Irish Republic on 10 January 1975 . Green was shot six times in the head at close range by a group of gunmen who had burst through the front door of the " safe " house where he was staying ; the UVF later claimed responsibility for the attack in the June 1975 edition of their journal '' Combat '' . Weir claimed that Robert Nairac also took part in Green 's shooting with the following statement : The men who did that shooting were Robert McConnell , Robin Jackson , and I would be almost certain , Harris Boyle who was killed in the Miami attack . What I am absolutely certain of is that Robert McConnell , Robert McConnell knew that area really , really well . Robin Jackson was with him . I was later told that Nairac was with them . I was told by ... a UVF man , he was very close to Jackson and operated with him . Jackson told him that Nairac was with them . On 24 August 1975 , McConnell was alleged by Weir to have been part of a UVF group that ambushed two Gaelic football supporters at a bogus vehicle checkpoint set up in the Cortamlet Road at the townland of Altnamachin , near Tullyvallen close to the Irish Republic border . At about 11.30 pm , Colm McCartney ( aged 22 ) and Sean Farmer ( aged 32 ) , both from Derry , were returning home from the Derry versus Dublin All-Ireland semi-final football match at Croke Park in Dublin when the group stopped the car they were travelling in . Upon their discovery that the two men inside were Catholics , the UVF gunmen ordered them out of the car and a short distance away turned their guns on Farmer , killing him instantly . McCartney attempted to escape on foot , but his pursuers caught up with him and he was also fatally gunned down . McCartney and Farmer had been shot four times and six times respectively . McConnell was wearing his British Army uniform at the time the attack occurred . A local resident who had been in the vicinity walking his dog saw the stopped vehicle ; he then heard the sounds of gunfire , someone running along the road , a male voice shouting " stop , stop " , which was then followed by " wild screaming " and another series of gunshots . He also saw another car drive away from the scene afterwards . Less than an hour before the shootings , a three-man RUC patrol in an unmarked car had been stopped by the same UVF unit after one soldier had waved a red torch in a circular motion indicating that it was a military vehicle checkpoint . Another soldier was lying in a ditch with a rifle . The RUC immediately suspected that it was a bogus checkpoint despite the men having worn full military combat uniforms . After the RUC men were passed through the checkpoint , they requested by radio , clarification as to whether there were any authorised regular Army or UDR checkpoints in the area that night , and received the confirmation that there were none . Although the RUC patrol reported the unauthorised checkpoint to the Army and requested their help in investigating the incident , no action had been taken . The killings were claimed by the Protestant Action Force , one of the cover names used by the Glenanne gang . The fake vehicle checkpoint manned UVF men in full British Army uniform was the same '' modus operandi '' which the UVF had employed when they waylaid the Miami Showband &mdash; a popular Irish cabaret band &mdash; the previous month at Buskhill , County Down ; however , McConnell was not implicated in that incident
Miami attack
Miami Showband killings
Robert McConnell (loyalist)