Brendan McFarlane

Brendan McFarlane was an Irish republican. Born into a Roman Catholic family, he was brought up in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland. At 16, he left Belfast to train as a priest in a north Wales seminary. He joined the Provisional IRA in 1969. In 1976, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his leading role in the Bayardo Bar attack which left 1 UVF volunteer and 4 civilians dead, injuring 50 others.