1991 Cappagh killings

1991 Cappagh killings
Part of the Troubles
Location	Boyle's Bar, Cappagh, County Tyrone Northern Ireland
Coordinates	54°32′29.40″N 6°55′27.19″W / 54.5415000°N 6.9242194°W / 54.5415000; -6.9242194
Date	3 March 1991 10:30 pm
Attack type	Shooting
Deaths	4
Injured	1
Perpetrator	Ulster Volunteer Force

The 1991 Cappagh killings was a gun attack by the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) on 3 March 1991 in the village of Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. A unit of the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade drove to the staunchly republican village and shot dead three Provisional IRA members and a Catholic civilian at Boyle's Bar.

Although nobody was ever charged in connection with the killings, it was widely believed by nationalists and much of the press that the attack had been planned and led by Billy Wright, the leader of the Mid-Ulster Brigade's Portadown unit. Wright himself took credit for this and boasted to The Guardian newspaper, "I would look back and say Cappagh was probably our best", though some sources are sceptical about his claim.

There were allegations of collusion between the UVF and the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) in the shootings.