A service took place on Sunday at Banbridge Road Presbyterian Church in Dromore, County Down, to remember William Herron, 64, his wife Elizabeth, 58, and their daughter Noeline, 26. The three died in a fire on April 7, 1976, after an incendiary device ignited their family shop and the home above it where they slept.

The Provisional IRA planted the device during an attack on the shop. Joy Bingham, a daughter who died in February 2025, saw her father at an upstairs window as flames surrounded it.

DUP deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly attended the service. She stated that communities must recall such attacks by the IRA, describing the family as hardworking Christians uninvolved in any conflict, whose lives ended brutally.

Kenny Donaldson of victims group SEFF said the Herrons earned deep respect in 1976 that persists. He noted their resolve against letting terrorism define them and called for authorities to explain the 1985 release of two women jailed in 1981 for the killings via Royal Prerogatives of Mercy.

Last week, a remembrance service included a wreath-laying and parade to Dromore Orange Hall, where wreaths went to a memorial plaque.