28 October 1974 - Michael Swanick (20) and Alan Coughlan (22), both members of the British Army, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb attack outside Abercorn Barracks.
On October 28, 1974, two British Army soldiers, Michael Swanick and Alan Coughlan, aged 20 and 22 respectively, were tragically killed in a bombing incident carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army outside Abercorn Barracks.