Bomb victim to take civil action over murder of 'miracle son'
No one has ever been charged with planting the no warning bomb that killed two people and left Maria McShane with serious head injuries and blind in one eye. However, the baby the then 18-year-old Co Armagh woman was carrying miraculously survived. Members of the notorious Glenanne Gang were involved in the August 1976 bombing of the Step Inn bar in Keady. The car used in the attack was stored in the farm of an RUC reservist. Elizabeth McDonald (38) and 22-year-old Gerard McGleenan died in the blast. Maria was rushed to hospital and spent time in an induced coma as doctors removed a piece o[...]
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