Banbridge return for the Miami Showband

The Miami Showband last night kicked off a nationwide tour in Ballymena, Co Antrim, 30 years after three of its members were shot dead in a loyalist ambush. The popular Seventies cabaret band were returning to Dublin after a gig in Banbridge, Co Down, when the UVF attacked their van in 1975.The gunmen had planned to set up a fake checkpoint wearing British army uniforms and conceal explosives in the band's van to make it look as though they were smuggling bombs. But the explosives detonated prem...

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