'Plot to blow us up week before Miami Showband horror'

Wolfe Tones Brian thinks 'band was also a target'

- BY SANDRA MALLON Showbiz Editor

THE Wolfe Tones singer Brian Warfield revealed he believes there was a plot to blow up the band's bus a week before The Miami Showband attack.

The 50th anniversary of The Miami Showband attack will take place on July 31, which marks the day a fake British Army patrol, comprising of UVF members and Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldiers, stopped the band’s minibus on the Al road near Newry.

A bomb, meant to explode later, detonated prematurely, killing two of the attackers. The remaining attackers then opened fire on the band, resulting in the deaths of three members: singer Fran O'Toole, guitarist Tony Geraghty, and trumpeter Brian McCoy.

Two other band members, Des McAlea and Stephen Travers, were injured but survived.

Now Brian says he believes The Wolfe Tones were also a target of the Glenanne gang but they escaped a roadblock being set up with the help of the local community.

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