Savage 's body , along with Farrell and McCann 's were repatriated to Northern Ireland , where a collective IRA-sponsored funeral was held for them on 16 March 1988 at the IRA plot in Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast . As the coffins were being lowered into the ground an Ulster loyalist paramilitary staged a single-handed attack upon the ceremony , throwing hand grenades and firing a handgun at mourners . The funeral immediately descended into chaos . One group of mourners pursued the retreating attacker , who continued to throw handgrenades and fire bullets , through cemetery grounds . Three of these unarmed mourners were killed and scores were injured . Stone retreated on to the adjoining M1 motorway , where he was arrested
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Milltown Cemetery attack
Seán Savage