Attack by Ulster Volunteer Force

Date: July 12, 1998 • Location: Ballymoney, United Kingdom

The Ulster Volunteer Force attack a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.

The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a Protestant former soldier in the Royal Ulster Rifles from Northern Ireland. The group undertook an armed campaign of almost thirty years during The Troubles, often coming into conflict with the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary. It declared a ceasefire in 1994 and officially ended its campaign in 2007, although some of its members have continued to engage in violence and criminal activities. The group is a proscribed organisation and is on the terrorist organisation list of the United Kingdom.