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1/8 - SUPPORTING INNOCENT VICTIMS/SURVIVORS of NI’s “Troubles” based on our ethos - the criminal violence was wrong & whilst accepting no moral equivalence between UK or RoI legitimate security forces & terrorist gps like PIRA & UVF, those in the security forces who dishonoured..
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Remembering Gavin Brett, 18, murdered on 29/7/01 in the Glengormley area by UDA terrorists. Gavin had been standing with a gp of RC friends near the entrance of a GAA club when they came under fire in a drive-by shooting by loyalists who assumed he was an RC too. Gavin was the ..
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Remember Marie Wilson, 20, student nurse, murdered in the Enniskillen Poppy Day Massacre committed by PIRA on 8/11/87. Marie was regarded as a special young woman with a very promising future ahead of her. She was an accomplished violinist. She was also committed to her ...
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SEFF remembers Reggie McCollum, 19, RIR, from Sandholes nr Cookstown, Co Tyrone, abducted & murdered by PIRA on 21/5/94, after a stag party in a bar in Armagh when he had become separated from his friends. His body was found dumped in a field between the Callanbridge and ....
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Remember Lord Louis Mountbatten, Lady Brabourne, 83, Nicholas Knathchbull, 14 & Paul Maxwell, 15, murdered in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo by PIRA on 27/8/79 Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma was a Royal Navy officer, statesman, uncle of Prince ...
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Remember An Garda Síochána Sgt Patrick Morrissey, 49, married, 4 kids, originally from Belturbet, Co. Cavan, murdered by PIRA on 27/6/85. Gardai Peter Long & Brendan Flynn were on mobile patrol at Ardee, Co. Louth. As they approached the town’s Labour Exchange they came upon a..
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Remember Majella O’Hare, 12, killed on 14/8/76 by a Regular Army Paratrooper, on her way to Confession in the chapel her family attended in Whitecross, S Armagh. Initially, the Army Press Office said that the PIRA had been responsible for Majella`s death. Later it said that she..
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Remember Alistair Slater, 28, from Leicestershire, soldier with the Para. Reg. but serving with the SAS, murdered whilst on operations against PIRA in Kesh, Co Fermanagh on 2/12/84. The operation led to the deaths of Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde & Kieran Fleming & the arrest of ..
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Remember Gavin Brett, 18, murdered on 29/7/01 in the Glengormley area. He was the offspring of a mixed marriage & his parents lived in a predominantly RC estate. He'd been standing with a gp of RC friends nr the entrance of a GAA club when they came under fire by the UDA, who..
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Remember Cpl David Howes, 23 & Cpl Derek Wood, savagely murdered on 19/3/88. They were violently pulled from their car by a frenzied crowd of Irish republicans & after being beaten & stabbed, were then shot dead at point blank range - an act of barbarism.
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Remembering James Morgan, 16, RC schoolboy, murdered 25 yrs ago, 24/7/97. The LVF was blamed for kidnapping James in Newcastle, Co Down, torturing him, beating him to death with a hammer, dousing his body in petrol & setting it alight. His burnt mutilated body was found 3 days..
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Remember RUC GC Supts Harry Breen, 51 & Bob Buchanan, 55, both Protestant, married, 2 kids, murdered on 20/3/89. Both were shot by PIRA around 16:00 nr the S Armagh border. They'd just attended a meeting with senior Gardaí in Dundalk. See
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Remember Garda Henry Byrne, 29, married 3 kids (one 4 mths), from Wingfield, Knock, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, murdered on 7/7/80. The Bank of Ireland, Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon was robbed of £41,000 by 2 armed masked men. Having made their escape, 3 raiders in total, burned ..
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Remember Prison Officer David Black, 52, married, 2 kids, brutally murdered by Republican terrorists 10 yrs years ago, 1/11/12, when a gunman ambushed his car on the M1 motorway on his way to work at HM Prison Maghaberry, having served in the Prison Service with distinction for..
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Remember RUC GC Sgt Hugh McCormac, 40, RC, married, 2 kids, murdered on 3/3/85. He was shot by PIRA in front of his family & other worshippers whilst leaving Mass at the Passionist Father's St. Gabriel's Retreat, the Graan. The McCormac family's devotion to faith was, & is, ..
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Remember Bernadette Martin, 18, RC factory worker from Pinebank Estate, Craigavon, murdered on 15/7/97. She was shot 4 times in the head by an LVF gunman while she slept at the family home of her Protestant boyfriend on Soldierstown Rd, Aghalee. Just before 4:00am, Bernadette..
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Remember RUC Const. Michael Ferguson, 21, RC, from Omagh, Co Tyrone, murdered on 23/1/93 by PIRA at Shipquay St, L'derry. He was shot when he was part of a police patrol responding to a shoplifter at the Richmond Shopping Centre, Shipquay St, L' derry, around 14.35 on a busy ...
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Remember Ian Gow, 53, Tory MP for Eastbourne, soliicitor, married, 2 sons, murdered on 30/7/90, by PIRA planted a bomb under his Austin Montego car in the early hrs, which exploded in the driveway of his house in Hankham, nr Pevensey, E Sussex. The 4½ lb semtex bomb detonated ..
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Remember Thomas Niedermayer, 45, German chief of the Grundig plant in Dunmurry, SW Belfast, manufacturing tape recorders, married, 2 kids, seized from his W Belfast bungalow by PIRA on 27/12/73, murdered, then secretly buried beneath a rubbish dump, (found in 1980). Lost Lives ..
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Remember Royal Horse Artillery LBdr Stephen Restorick, 23, from Peterborough, murdered on 12/2/97 He was the last soldier murdered just prior to the second PIRA ceasefire. Stephen had been manning a checkpoint at Bessbrook when he was shot by PIRA in the back around 18:30 by a..
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Remember Jason, 8, Mark, 9 & Richard Quinn, 10, murdered 25 yrs ago, 12/7/98, in a UVF firebomb attack on their home in Ballymoney, Co Antrim. Garfield Gilmour, was found guilty of murdering 15 mths later & sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting that he had driven 3 ...
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SEFF remembers Gavin Brett, murdered 19 yrs ago (29/7/01) in the Glengormley area by UDA. The 18-yr-old had been standing with a group of RC friends near the entrance of a GAA club when they came under fire in a drive-by shooting by loyalists who assumed he was an RC. Gavin ...
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Remember Derek Breen, 29, married with a baby, off-duty RUC, murdered by PIRA in the Talk of the Town Bar, Maguiresbridge on 11/2/86. He’d just phoned his wife to say he was on his way home for dinner when 3 murderers burst in. Derek shouted “Get down, they know who they want” ..
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Remembering the 9 innocents murdered in the Claudy bombings, perpetrated by PIRA on 31/7/72. Patrick Connolly, Kathryn Eakin, Arthur Hone, Joseph McCloskey, Elizabeth McElhinney, James McClelland, Rose McLaughlin, David Miller & William Temple were all people who mattered; they..
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SEFF remembers David Black,52, brutally murdered by Republican terrorists 9 yrs ago, 1/11/12, when a gunman ambushed his car on the M1 motorway, on his way to work at HM Prison Maghaberry, having served in the Prison Service with distinction for over 30 yrs. David enjoyed...
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Remember James Barker, 12, from Ballintrae, Buncrana, Co Donegal, murdered in the "Real" IRA Omagh bomb, 15/8/88. 29 innocents perished as well as unborn twins with scores of others physically & psychologically injured. The family had moved from England to Buncrana in 1997 to..
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Remembering the innocents murdered in the Miami Showband attack, around 2am, 31/7/75. Three musicians were shot at point blank range on the way home from a gig by the UVF. Fran O'Toole was hit by 20 bullets, many in the head. Guitarist Tony Geraghty was shot 5 times in the back..
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Remember Mark Norsworthy, 18, 1 of 8 soldiers murdered by PIRA on 20/8/88 in the Ballygawley Bus Bomb attack. Mark was in the 1st Battalion Light Infantry When he was younger he worked on a local building site & also used to sell ice creams, until he was old enough to join the..
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Remember James Morgan, 16,RC, from Castlewellan, Co Down., murdered on 24/7/97. The LVF kidnaped James in Newcastle, Co Down. He was tortured, beaten to death with a hammer & his body doused in petrol & set alight The sectarian killing of James Morgan was 1 of the most brutal..
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Remember Garda Sgt Frank Hand, 27, from Roscommon, shot dead, on 10/8/84 during a PIRA raid on a post office van in Drumree, Co Meath. He was just back from honeymoon in Venice & his wife had told him the night before his murder she was pregnant. 3 PIRA terrorists, Tony Eccles,.
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Remember Margaret Wright, 31, Protestant from Forthriver Pk, W Belfast, murdered on 6/4/94. She was battered & shot dead at an illegal drinking club by The Red Hand Commandos. It was believed she was an RC & had been set upon in the early morning hours.
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Remembers Adam Lambert, 19, murdered 9/11/87, by loyalist terrorists in a supposed retaliation attack for the Enniskillen Poppy Day Massacre Adam was the youngest of 4 to Brian & Ivy Lambert of Ballygawley. He had a happy childhood & loved nature, particularly his cats & dogs..
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Remember 1st Battalion Light Infantry Pte Mark Norsworthy, 18, 1 of 8 soldiers murdered 20/8/88 in the PIRA Ballygawley Bus Bomb attack. When Mark worked on a local building site & sold ice cream, until he was old enough to join the army as that was all he wanted to do. He ...
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Kingsmill massacre -5/1/76 Remember 10 innocents, murdered 47 yrs ago today by PIRA. It was a mass shooting that took place near the village of Whitecross, S Armagh. Gunmen stopped a minibus carrying 11 Protestant workmen, lined them up alongside it & shot them. Only 1 victim..
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SEFF remembers Thomas Niedermayer, 45, married with 2 children, German chief of the Grundig plant in Dunmurry, which manufactured tape recorders, kidnapped & disappeared 48 yrs ago, 27/12/73. He was seized from his W. Belfast bungalow by PIRA, murdered, then secretly buried ...
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The Loughinisland Attack – 18/6/94 Remember the innocents of this attack in the small village of Loughinisland, Co Down. UVF terrorists burst into a pub with assault rifles & fired on the customers, murdering 6 & wounding 5. The pub is beieved to have been targeted because it..
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Remember Gordon Gallagher, 9, RC, murdered 50 yrs ago, 25/2/73. He was playing in the back garden of his home in L'derry's Creggan estate when a PIRA landmine exploded. He died in Altnagelvin Hosp. A postman was the 1st on the scene & said he saw a young boy crawling on the ..
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Remember Heidi Hazell, 26, West Germany, married to a British soldier serving there, murdered on 7/9/89 as she sat in the family car at home. She was approached by a PIRA gunman in British Army battle dress. He opened fire shooting her over a dozen times before escaping in a ...
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Remembering Lurgan RUC officers John Graham, 34, from Richhill, married, 3 young kids & David Johnston, 30, from Lisburn, married with 2 young sons, murdered PIRA terrorists on 16/6/97. . At approximately 11:45am they were both on foot patrol in the Church Walk area of Lurgan ..
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Newry Police Station (Mortar Bomb) - 28/2/85 Remember the 9 RUC Officers mercilessly murdered by PIRA in an attack which saw the greatest single loss of RUC life in The Troubles. Ch Insp Alex Donaldson, 41, married, 3 kids, from Hillsborough R Const. Geoffrey Campbell, 24, ...
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Remember David Cupples, 25, Protestant kitchen worker, savagely attacked by loyalist thugs 20 yrs ago on 22/12/02. David was found lying in Cliftonpark Av with critical head wounds. He died on Christmas Day in the RVH. It was clear from the head wounds that he'd been beaten ....
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Remember Stephen Carroll, husband/father, murdered by "dissident" Republican terrorists on 9/3/09. Stephen joined the RUC & subsequently the PSNI. He'd served for almost 25 yrs.
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Remember Eileen Doherty, 20, RC stitcher, murdered 50 yrs ago, 30/9/73. After visiting her fiancée, she went to the taxi depot to get a lift home to Slieveban Dr, W Belfast. Two UVF men, in the depot at the time asked if they could share the taxi. They rode in the back, Eileen..
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Remember RUC GC R Cons. Alan Corbett, 25, Protestant, from Banbridge, Co Down murdered 30yrs ago, 15/11/92. He was shot by PIRA at a joint army-police-cross-border checkpoint at Belcoo. Alan was brought up on the family farm at Ballyroney. He was educated at Closkelt PS, ....
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Remembers Derek Ferguson, 30, Protestant joiner from Coagh, Co Tyrone, married, 4 kids, formerly UDR for a short time, murdered on 9/4/91. 2 PIRA gunmen broke into his home & shot him in front of his 2 sons, aged 6 & 7. The boys were left alone with the body. His 7 yr old ....
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Remember James Ferris, 43, Protestant, Prison Officer from Rosepark, Donaghadee, married, 2 kids, murdered by Irish Republican terrorists on 25/9/83. He was stabbed with a prison workshop chisel & suffered a heart attack during a mass IRA escape from the Maze Prison.
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Remember Met Police PC Jane Arbuthnot, murdered by PIRA along with Sgt Noel Lane, 28, Philip Geddes , 24, journalist who'd heard about the alert & went to the scene; Jasmine Cochrane-Patrick, 25 & Kenneth Salvesen, 28, a US citizen, in the Harrods Bomb 17/12/83. Insp Stephen ..
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SEFF remembers Marie Wilson, 20, murdered 34 yrs ago in the Enniskillen Poppy Day Massacre committed by PIRA on 8/11/87. Marie was regarded as a special young woman with a very promising future ahead of her. She along with her family lived at Cooper Cr. Enniskillen. She was an..
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Remember Light Infantry Pte Paul Turner, 18, from Herefordshire, murdered on 28/8/92 - shot in the chest by a single shot while standing in the main square in Crossmaglen, S Armagh A PIRA gunman opened fire from a cemetery 200 yds away around 6pm as he was taking up position ..
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Remember Jacob Rankin, 37, married, 3 kids, from Castlederg, RUCR, ex UDR, murdered on 4/7/78 shot outside Castlederg Police Station when a passing car drove by as he was walking to the shop across the road, an anorak covering his uniform. He was rushed to Tyrone Co Hosp, & ...
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Remember Edgar Graham, 29, MPA, BL, UUP politician & senior Law Lecturer at QUB, murdered on 7/12/83. In mid-morning, while chatting to UUP & Queen's colleague Dermot Nesbitt at the University Sq side of the main campus library, he was shot in the head a no. of times by a PIRA ..
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Remember Sen Paddy Wilson, 40, SDLP, married, 1 son, murdered 50 yrs ago, 26/6/73, alongside Irene Andrews. The double murder by UDA/UFF, is regarded as amongst the most brutal & frenzied act of sectarian motivated violence committed throughout the ‘The Troubles. Paddy was ...
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Remember Royal Green Jackets Rfn David Mulley, 20, from Sunderland, who was murdered on 18/3/86 in a booby trap PIRA bomb in Castlewellan. He was on foot patrol & as he was crouching down in a doorway, the bomb was detonated by remote control. See
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Remember Ann Ogilby, 32, single mother of 4, 12 siblings, had moved to Belfast from Sion Mills, Co Tyrone, murdered on 24/7/7 by a gang of women attached to the Sandy Row unit of the UDA. She was described as a "very attractive girl with dark-brown silky hair & blue eyes", & a..
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Remember Queen's Lancashire’s Reg Pte Gary Barlow, 19, from Lowtown, Lancashire. murdered 50 yrs ago, 5/3/73. Gary was on a routine foot patrol when he became separated & a crowd gathered around him & took his gun. A witness a gp of women tried to rescue him & take him to the ..
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SEFF remembers RUC Const Colleen McMurrary, 34, married, Protestant from Sixmilecross, murdered on 27/3/92. Colleen was travelling in a patrol car along Merchants Quay, Newry when a horizontally fired PIRA Mark 12 mortar hit the passenger side of the car. The mortar had been..
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Remember Tom Oliver, 37, dairy farmer, married, 7 kids, murdered by PIRA. On 18/7/91 he was abducted. His body was found the next day near Belleeks, Co Armagh. His murder was condemned by politicians, religious & civic leaders across the Community. It led to a wave of outrage..
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Remembering Ann Ogilby, 32, 1 of 13 children, single mother of 4, had moved to Belfast from Sion Mills, Co Tyrone, murdered on 24/7/74 by a gang of women attached to the Sandy Row UDA. Ann was described as a very attractive girl with dark-brown silky hair, blue eyes" & slender ..
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SEFF remembers Derek Been, 29, married with baby, RUC, murdered by PIRA in the Talk of the Town Bar, Maguiresbridge, 36 yrs ago, 11/2/86). A policeman to the end, his thoughts were for the public, giving his last instruction "Get down, they know who they want” Barman, John ....
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SEFF remembers RUC Sgt. Hugh McCormac, 40, RC, married with family, on the 37th Anniversary of his murder by PIRA whilst off duty on 3/3/85. Hugh was was shot in front of his family & other worshippers whilst leaving Mass at the Passionist Father's St. Gabriel's Retreat, the ...
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SEFF remembers the 9 RUC Officers mercilessly murdered by PIRA in the Newry Police St. Mortar Bomb, 28/2/85 - the greatest single loss of life of RUC members in "The Troubles". Alexander Donaldson, 41, married 3 kids Geoffrey Campbell, 24 John Dowd, 31, married Denis Price, 22..
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Remember Stephen Parker, 14, murdered on 21/7/72, alongside 8 others in an atrocity known as “Bloody Friday", which saw 22 bombs detonated across Belfast by PIRA, wreaking havoc & affecting so many innocent lives. Stephen was murdered by a bomb detonated on the Cavehill Rd. ...
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Remember Alan McCrum, 11, Protestant from Greenan Rd, Loughbrickland, murdered on 15/3/82 in a PIRA no-warning car bomb, left in Banbridge city centre. Much of the town was destroyed & 34 were injured. Alan was waiting for a lift home from a friend. See
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Remember Kurt Konig, 38, RC catering supplier for the RUC GC until 3 mths before his death, married, 5 kids, murdered on 21/11/85. Just after 8:00am Kurt was about to drive from his home at the Gleneagles estate, Culmore Rd in L'derry when he was shot at least 15 times by PIRA...
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Remember 2 off-duty soldiers of 38 Engineer Regiment, shot dead outside Massareene Barracks in Antrim town on 7/3/09, by dissident republican IRA terrorists as they collected a pizza delivery outside the Massereene barracks in Antrim. Sappers Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London..
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Remember Stephen Montgomery, 26, RUC, Protestant from Omagh, married, 1 child & another on the way murdered on 26/1/89, by a PIRA drogue bomb that hit the vehicle he was sitting in outside a disco in Sion Mills. The police car had stopped for a routine inquiry when the bomb ..
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Remembering Bernadette Martin, 18 RC factory worker who was shot 4 times in the head by an LVF gunman while she slept at the family home of her Protestant boyfriend on Soldierstown Rd in the village of Aghalee. Shortly before 4:00am, on 15/7/97/Bernadette and her boyfriend ...
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Remember William Monteith, 59, worked at SJ Loughlin’s Contractors, Castlederg, married 5 kids, from Ganvanghan Rd, (later named Laghel Rd), murdered by PIRA On the 1/10/76 William, his son & his Nephew joined the RUC GC Reserve together. On Mon 21/11/88 William & his nephew ...
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Remember Eileen Doherty, 20, RC stitcher, murdered on 30/9/73 by the UVF. She went to the taxi depot to get a taxi to her home on Slieveban Dr, W Belfast, after visiting her fiancée. 2 men in the depot asked if they could share the taxi. They rode in the back & Eileen in the ..
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Remember UDR Cpl Albert Beacom, 44, married, 5 kids, cruelly murdered on 17/11/8 by IRA whilst he worked on his farm outside Maguiresbridge, Co Fermanagh, like so many others, attacked & murdered whilst off duty. To this day the family is still awaiting truth & justice. His ...
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Remember UDR LCpl John Bradley, 25 Protestant, married, 2 kids, Michael Adams, 23 Mormon, Pte Steven Smart, 23, Protestant, Pte John Birch, 28, Protestant, married, 2 kids murdered on 9/4/92, by a 1,000lb PIRA landmine outside Downpatrick. Please See
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Sorry - Late Post Remember Anne Owens, 22, RC comptometer operator from Chichester Av & her friend, Janet Bereen, RC radiographer from Hampton Pk, Belfast, murdered in the PIRA bomb in Abercorn Bar in central Belfast on 4/3/72 The incident was regarded as one of the most ....
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Remember Detective Garda Seamus Quaid, 43, married, 4 kids, murdered on 13/10/80 by PIRA - shot as he & another officer were inspecting a suspect vehicle in Co Wexford. The driver stepped aside to allow the officers to search, when they had their backs turned, he produced a ...
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Remember Ruc officers, John Graham, 34, married, 3 kids, from Richill & David Johnston, 30, married, 2 kids, murdered on 16/6/97. At approximately 11:45am they were both on foot patrol in the Church Walk area of Lurgan when 2 PIRA gunmen murdered them in cold blood, shooting ..
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Remembering David Reeves, 24, Protestant, RUC GC, from Station Rd, Portstewart. murdered on 11/6/82 by a PIRA booby-trap bomb, hidden among what was thought to be a consignment of stolen TVs & radios, as he was carrying out a search in L'derry's Shantallow area. The goods had ...
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Remember Columba McVeigh, 17, RC painter from Donaghmore, Co Tyrone murdered & secretly buried by PIRA, 1/11/75. Columba had been working in Dublin & had returned to NI a few days earlier. His parents held out hope for years that he might return, buying & storing birthday & ...
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SEFF remembers Mary Travers, 22, teacher, murdered on 8/4/84 by PIRA trying to assassinate her father, Thomas, a magistrate. She, her parents & siblings had left St Brigid's RC Ch in Derryvolgie Av in S Belfast when 2 gunmen opened fire. Mary was shot once through the back & ..
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SEFF remembers UDR Cpl David Brown, 37, Protestant from Broomhill Pk in Ballynahinch.married, 4 kids, murdered on 28/5/86. David & his sniffer dog, Oliver, were both killed outside a garage in Kilkeel, Co Down by a PIRA bomb. There had been a bomb warning & David went with ...
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Remember Ross McWhirter, noted author, athlete & TV personality, murdered on 27/11/75. He was murdered on his doorstep by 2 PIRA terrorists, after he offered a £50,000 reward for info leading to a conviction for several recent bombings in England. They were captured & charged ..
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Remember Gren Gdsm Daniel Blinco, 22 from Melbourne, Derbyshire, murdered on 30/12/93, just 2 wks after PM John Major & Taoiseach Albert Reynolds signed the Downing Street Declaration, described as “a charter for peace & reconciliation” on the island of Ireland & was followed ...
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Remember train driver Julius Stephen, murdered on 15/3/76 in the PIRA West Ham Station bomb & gun attack, when he tried to catch the terrorist. SEFF’s thoughts & prayers remain with the family of this hero. Please see
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La Mon Massacre - 17/2/78 Remember the 12 innocent Protestants, murdered in the La Mon restaurant bombing by PIRA: Thomas Neeson, 41, from Lisburn, married, 3 kids & his mother-in-law Sarah Wilson Cooper, 62, from Alliance Cr, Belfast. Sandra Morris, 27, from Alliance Cr, ...
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Remember Joe McCullough, 57, Protestant farmer, UDR OGC, from Castleblayney Rd, Newtownhamilton, murdered on 25/2/76. He was staying with neighbours to avoid an attack but when he went to his farm to feed his dog, he was stabbed 5 times & his throat was cut twice by PIRA. His ..
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SEFF remembers William Heenan, 51, RUCR, Road Service, widower with a 12 yr old son,( @SammyHeenan ), murdered 3/5/85. At 7.10am, he went to feed his hens before work. A PIRA gunman was waiting in an outside toilet. He forced him to his knees, & shot him twice in the back of the..
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Remember Gordon Hamilton-Fairley FRCP, 45, born & bred in Australia, moved to the UK, Prof of medical oncology at St. Bartholomew's Hosp, England, internationally known cancer expert, married, 4 kids, murdered on 23/10/75 by the notorious PIRA Balcombe St gang, nr his home, ...
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Remember Leonard Kaitcer, 50, prominent figure in the antiques & jewellery world, married, 2 sons, beloved member of Belfast's Jewish community, murdered on 9/2/80. Leonard had been abducted from his home, an apartment at Thornhill off the Malone Rd, S Belfast by PIRA who ...
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Remember Jillian Johnston, 21, engaged, murdered on the family farm between Belleek & Kesh on 18/3/88. The pm revealed that there were 27 bullets in her body. The attack on a defenceless female was amongst the most wicked crimes perpetrated by PIRA. See
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Remember Ronnie Hill, 69, Protrstant head teacher of Enniskillen High School, married, 4 kids, 12th victim of the Enniskillen Poppy Day Massacre, 8/11/87, dying 22 yrs later, 28/12/00, not recovering from coma. He was at the war memorial with his bible class when the bomb ....
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Droppin Well Massacre - 6/12/82 Remember 17 innocents slaughtered by The INLA 40 yrs ago via the infamous Droppin Well Massacre. The Droppin Well bombing occurred when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) exploded a time bomb at a disco in Ballykelly. The disco, known as..
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Remembering P/T UDR Cpl Jimmy McFall, 39, postman, married, 5 kids, murdered on 27/7/77 with his wife & 2 kids witnessing it. At 8.30am 2 PIRA gunmen walked up to the front door & shot at him through the glass panel. With Jimmy’s family upstairs they were liable to come down ..
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Remember Heidi Hazell, 27, born in W Germany, married to a British solider stationed there, murdered on 7/9/89. She was sitting in the family car at her home when she was approached by a member of PIRA in British Army battle dress. He opened fire shooting her over a dozen times..
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Remembering David Caldwell, 51, Protestant construction worker, from Eglinton, cohabiting, 4 kids, murdered by "real" IRA 20 yrs ago, 1/7/02, when he picked up a booby trapped lunchbox that exploded. At 7:30am he arrived at work at Caw TA base in L'derry's Waterside. The base ..
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Remember Johnny Fletcher, 43, married, p/t UDR, farmer, murdered on 1/3/72. He was abducted by PIRA as he was driving away from his farmhouse to work, frog-marched into a field & murdered. This was witnessed by his wife Edith. The Fletchers had no children but they owned a ...
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Remember RCoT LCpl Norman Duncan, 27, married, 3 kids, from Craigellachie, Banffshire, Scotland, murdered on 22/2/89. He was driving a minibus from Ebrington Barracks to Ebrington Primary School to collect children when he was shot by PIRA in L'derry's Bond St. He had left ...
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Sorry - late post Remember Michael Lenaghan, RC taxi driver, married, 4 kids, murdered on 4/3/91. He'd been dispatched to pick up a fare in centre of Belfast to go to the Malone Rd. 2 UVF men got in & ordered him to drive to Heather St. They used a 9mm pistol & .38 revolver ...
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(1) SEFF remembers Constable Michael John Ferguson who was murdered on Saturday 23rd January 1993 by the Provisional IRA at Shipquay Street, Londonderry. Michael was a 21-year-old Roman Catholic, single man from Omagh, County Tyrone
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Remember Anne Marie Smyth, 26, RC from Armagh, 2 kids, murdered on 24/2/92 by a gang who mostly had UVF connections, when she strayed into their company. Her murder was described as a particularly horrific sectarian killing. Anne Marie was strangled & her throat cut by a gp of..
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Remember the Haughton family Cliff, 23 Linda, 23 Lee, 5 & Robert, 2, murdered with 8 others by PIRA in the M62 Coach Bomb on 4/2/74 Cliff was a Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Cpl The couple were from Manchester. Once Linda left school she got a job in the local cotton mill & ..
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Remember MPS PC Stephen Tibble, 21, married, murdered on 27/2/75. He was shot when he joined in the pursuit of a member of PIRA's Balcombe St gang in London's Hammersmith area. Stephen had only been in the police for 3 mths & was off duty at the time. 3 plain-clothes officers ..
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Remember Kenneth Howarth GM (George Medal), Met Police bomb disposal expert, from Bracknell, Berkshire, married, 2 kids, murdered on 26/10/81. He was attempting to defuse a PIRA bomb left in the men's toilet of a Wimpy in Oxford St, London. At 15:43 the 5lb bomb, which was ...
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Remembering Ian Gow, 53, Tory MP for Eastbourne, solicitor, murdered 30/7/90, married, 2 sons. PIRA planted a bomb under his Austin Montego in the early hours, which exploded in the driveway of his house in Hankham, nr Pevensey, E Sussex, leaving him with severe wounds to his ..
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