The Truth About Brendan "Bik" McFarlane
Brendan Bik McFarlane was a vicious sectarian murderer.
On a damp, unremarkable Wednesday evening, August 13, 1975, the Bayardo Bar was doing what Belfast pubs did best: serving as a refuge from the chaos of the sectarian civil strife we like to euphemistically call in Ireland “The Troubles” like it was an irritable bowel movement rather than a vicious sectarian civil war. The pub was packed with the usual a…
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