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The Miami Showband massacre: what led to the killing of the ‘Irish Beatles’?


The band were as big as it got, topping the Irish singles chart seven times. Then they were stopped at a bogus checkpoint in County Down – and three were shot dead. Fifty years on, survivor Des Lee looks back on that terrible night

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