Two days after Lynch and Heath met, the Provisionals let off a bomb in a Shankill Road bar. Two people were killed, many maimed for life. Trigger-happy soldiers shot two women in a car on the Falls Road a few days later. Next day, other soldiers in Newry dealt with three teenage would-be muggers by shooting them dead. Hatred of the army in Catholic ghettos reached such a pitch that girls who ‘fraternised’ with soldiers had their heads shorn and were tied to railings or lampposts, covered in ink, and adorned with placards proclaiming their crime.
