The Balmoral bombing was not the first paramilitary attack in the Shankill Road area . On 29 September 1971 , the Four Steps Inn pub had been bombed by the Provisional IRA , resulting in the deaths of two men . It would not be the last either . In August 1975 , the Provisional IRA carried out a shooting and bombing attack against the Bayardo Bar on Aberdeen Street , which killed three men and two women - one aged 17 . A deadlier attack took place on 23 October 1993 when a two-man IRA unit from Ardoyne carried a bomb into Frizzell 's Fish Shop on the Shankill . The device detonated prematurely , killing one of the bombers and ten of the customers ( see Shankill Road bombing )
Bayardo Bar
Bayardo Bar attack
1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing