The nine attacks — a litany of terror and death

On December 19, 1975, a car bomb exploded outside Kay’s Tavern in Dundalk killing two people, Hugh Watters, 60, and Jack Rooney, 62. Nobody was every charged. Judge Barron concluded that the bombing was carried out by Loyalist extremists, probably from the Mid Ulster UVF.

He found the security forces in the North knew or should have known but that it was impossible to prove or disprove allegations of collusion.