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 .

Ten people were killed Killing : one of the IRA bombers , a UDA member and eight Protestant civilians , two of whom were children .

On 5 February , the Ulster loyalist Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) retaliated Revenge by shooting Use_firearm dead five Catholics at a betting shop in an Irish nationalist area of Belfast .

During the large funeral of three Provisional IRA members killed in Gibraltar , an Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) member , Michael Stone , attacked Attack the mourners with hand grenades and pistols .