New Lodge Six shooting

New Lodge Six shooting
Part of the Troubles
A mural to the six men killed which reads "The New Lodge Six – Time for the Truth"
Location	New Lodge, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date	3-4 February 1973
Attack type	Shooting, mass murder
Weapons	Rifles
Deaths	6 (4 civilians and 2 Provisional IRA Volunteers)
Injured	9
Perpetrators	British Army, UDA, suspicion collusion

In the late hours of 3 February and the early hours of 4 February 1973, six men, all of whom were Catholics, were shot and killed in the New Lodge area of north Belfast:

• four (one IRA member and three civilians) of them were shot dead at the junction at Edlingham Street by British Army snipers,
• the other two men were shot dead by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), one IRA member and one Italian citizen, the owner of a local café.

Three other men were shot dead on 4 February by what was believed to be Loyalist paramilitaries, taking the total death toll to nine on 3-4 February.^[1] The six men killed in the New Lodge area became known as "The New Lodge Six".^[2]

There have been allegations over the years that collusion took place between the British security forces and paramilitaries at the time.^[3][4][5] Northern Ireland's Attorney General in 2018 urged an investigation into the deaths of the New Lodge Six.^[2] The Director of Public Prosecutions decided not to ask the PSNI to carry out an investigation, and relatives in 2020 launched a legal action in response.^[6]