The Troubles in Ballymoney

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The Troubles in Ballymoney recounts incidents during and the effects of the Troubles in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Incidents in Ballymoney during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:

1998

  • 12 July 1998 - Three brothers, Richard Quinn (11), Mark Quinn (10) and Jason Quinn (9), all Catholic civilians, were killed during an Ulster Volunteer Force petrol bomb attack on their home at Carnany Park, in a predominantly Protestant area of Ballymoney. The family had only moved into the house the previous week. The mother and her partner were able to escape, but couldn't save the children. The incident followed a number of sectarian threats and attacks in the area at the height of the Drumcree protests in Portadown. There was widespread local and international condemnation of the attack. Strong condemnation came from Democratic Unionist Party leader, Ian Paisley, about these killings in his constituency, but he told Independent Television News that "the IRA carried out far worse murders than we had at Ballymoney, over and over again". Just over a week later a Ballymoney man was charged with murder.

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