According to Peter Taylor , the Provisional IRA 's gun and bomb attack on the loyalist Bayardo Bar in Belfast 's Shankill Road on 13 August was in retaliation for the Miami Showband ambush . Four Protestant civilians ( two men and two women ) and UVF member Hugh Harris were killed in the attack . Two days later , Portadown disc jockey Norman " Mooch " Kerr , aged 28 , was shot dead by the IRA as he packed up his equipment after a show at the Camrick Bar in Armagh . Although not a member of any loyalist paramilitary group , he was a close friend of Harris Boyle and the two were often seen together . The IRA said it killed him because of an alleged association with British Army officer and member of , Captain Robert Nairac , and claimed it was in possession of his diary , which had been stolen in Portadown
Bayardo Bar
Bayardo Bar attack
Miami Showband killings