Eight survivors of a 1992 loyalist gun attack at a County Down pub have received substantial compensation from the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the UK Ministry of Defence, concluding an 11-year civil case. The settlement involves several million pounds, though exact details remain undisclosed, and is believed to be one of the largest payouts in a Troubles-related case.
The Ulster Volunteer Force carried out the shootings at the Thierafurth Inn in Kilcoo during a darts tournament on 19 November 1992, killing Peter McCormack, a 42-year-old former school teacher shot in the back. The High Court in Belfast had previously ruled that the state failed to conduct an effective investigation into the attack.
A 2016 Police Ombudsman report found that military intelligence material had been accessed by the UVF gang, with no sustained police response to disrupt their activities. Members of the same unit were later implicated in the 1994 Loughinisland pub murders, in which six men were killed.