Central Bar bombing

Central Bar bombing
Part of the Troubles
Location	Gilford, County Down, Northern Ireland
Coordinates	55°02′28″N 7°00′36″W / 55.041°N 7.010°W / 55.041; -7.010
Date	31 December 1975 (GMT)
Attack type	Bombing
Weapons	Time bomb
Deaths	3
Injured	30
Perpetrator	claimed by "Armagh People's Republican Army" a covername for the Irish National Liberation Army

The Central Bar bombing was a bomb attack on a pub in the town of Gilford near Portadown in County Down in Northern Ireland on 31 December 1975. The attack was carried out by members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) using the covername "People's Republican Army" although contemporary reports also said the "Armagh unit" of the "People's Republican Army" (the name under which the INLA operated throughout 1975) had claimed responsibility.^[1] Three Protestant civilians were killed in the bombing.^[2]