Harris Boyle

Who is Harris Boyle?

Harris Boyle was an Ulster Defence Regiment soldier and a high-ranking member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary organisation. Boyle was implicated in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings which left a total of 33 people dead. Boyle took part in the attack at Buskhill, County Down when an armed UVF gang wearing British Army uniforms ambushed The Miami Showband at a bogus military checkpoint. The popular Irish cabaret band was driving home to Dublin after a performance in Banbridge. He was one of the two gunmen killed when the bomb they had loaded onto the band's minibus exploded prematurely. He is sometimes referred to as Horace Boyle.