Brendan McFarlane (1951 – 21 February 2025) was an Irish republican activist. 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 4 civilians dead, injuring other 50 others.
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1951
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21 February 2025 (aged 73)
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