From left: The final line-up of Des Lee, Donnie Devenney, Richard McCleery, Alan McCartney, Barry Woods and Ray Millar The legendary Irish group said a poignant and emotional goodbye to their fans last night with a gig in the same Co Down town where they played on the night three of its musicians were murdered by the UVF 40 years ago. Lead singer Fran O'Toole, guitarist Tony Geraghty and trumpeter
One of the surviving Miami Showband members, Des Lee, at the scene of the murders of three band members at Buskhill, outside Newry Des Lee, fourth from left, with the Miami Showband in 1975. The men who died were Tony Geraghty (far left), Fran O’Toole (second from left) and Brian McCoy (second from right) Des Lee was one of only two people who survived after the UVF ambushed the group on August 31
The Miami Showband massacre in 1975 was the first time musicians had been targeted by a terrorist group in Northern Ireland When three young musicians lost their lives on 31 July 1975, the heart was torn out of Ireland's showband community. It also devastated the burgeoning live music scene in Northern Ireland. Forty years later, the Miami Showband massacre, external remains one of the darkest atr
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