The relative of a woman murdered in the McGurk’s Bar bombing has urged unionist councillors not to oppose plans to rename a North Belfast street in memory of the massacre. Two years ago the North Belfast News revealed that plans to call a newly built housing development close to the site of the bar bombing,
Work has begun on a sculpted relief recreation of McGurk’s Bar at the site of the UVF bomb which killed fifteen innocent people forty years ago.December 4 marks the fortieth anniversary of the bombing of the North Queen Street bar and to mark the occasion some of the families who lost loved ones have formed the McGurk’s Memorial Fund for a series of memorials.