Fresh inquest recommended into 1971 McGurk’s bar bombing in Belfast

Attorney general decides atrocity that killed 15 people merits further scrutiny amid new evidence

Northern Ireland’s attorney general has recommended a new inquest into a bombing by loyalist paramilitaries that killed 15 people, including two children, in Belfast in 1971.

Brenda King decided the massacre at the Catholic-owned McGurk’s bar, in north Belfast, merited fresh scrutiny amid new evidence about the location of army observation posts near the atrocity.