This battalion was involved Cause_to_be_included in two other controversial shootings Use_firearm : the Ballymurphy massacre several months before , and the killing Killing of Protestant civilians in the Shankill several months later .

The Shankill Road bombing Attack was carried out Action by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) on 23 October 1993 and is one of the most notorious incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland .

The IRA aimed Aiming to assassinate the leadership of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) , attending Participation a meeting above Frizzell 's fish shop on the Shankill Road , Belfast .

The loyalist Shankill Road had been the location of other bomb and gun attacks Attack , including the Balmoral Furniture Company bombing Attack in 1971 and Bayardo Bar attack Attack in 1975 , but the 1993 bombing Attack had the highest casualties Catastrophe .