sentences:  The IRA carried out 91 sectarian assassinations in 1974–1976, many of them in Belfast.One of the most notorious of these attacks came on 13 August 1975, when an IRA team led by Brendan McFarlane machine-gunned Bayardo's Bar on Belfast's Protestant Shankill Road, killing five people and injuring over 50.While the attack was intended to kill Ulster Volunteer Force members who used the bar, only one of the dead had paramilitary connections.