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Sectarian attacks in Fermanagh
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| RSAUB | Date: Monday, 2012-04-02, 5:32 PM | Message # 1 |
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| http://www.impartialreporter.com/news....a-house
Police are investing a claim that a house in the Rosslea area has been attacked.
A claim was made to this newspaper on Monday morning from someone purporting to be from the South Fermanagh Brigade of the IRA, using a code word and saying they carried out the attack.
A similar claim was also made to a Belfast newsroom shortly before midnight last night (Sunday).
A PSNI spokesman said that at this stage the report remains uncorroborated.
However, police are urging caution if anyone comes across any suspicious objects in the area while enquiries are continuing.
Police are appealing for information from anyone who saw or heard suspicious activity in the area over the weekend.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17589120
Rosslea alert follows house attack claim Police are investigating the discovery of a suspicious object in County Fermanagh.
The discovery at Mullaghglass, Rosslea, followed a report to a Belfast newsroom on Sunday night of an attack on a house in the area.
The Dernawilt Road has been closed between Rosslea and the Moorlough Road because of a security alert. Local diversions are in place.
The object was found close to the home of UUP councillor Harold Andrews.
Ulster Unionist MLA for the area Tom Elliott said the incident was deplorable.
"These attacks are the work of a small intolerant element of people who still wish to intimidate Protestants out of Rosslea," he said.
"This suspect device will lead to a lot of disruption in the area and it has put not only Harold's life, but also of anyone passing by in danger."
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| RSAUB | Date: Monday, 2012-04-02, 5:38 PM | Message # 2 |
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| This follows on from a gun attack on a Protestant house on the border claimed by the IRA.
'IRA’ claim gun attack on border
February 29, 2012 at 12:56 pm
REPORTS OF gunmen using Kalashnikov assault rifles to shoot up the house of a Protestant family living along the Fermanagh Cavan border have sparked off fresh fears among the unionist community in the area.
The PSNI are investigating a claim issued by the 32 County Sovereignty Committee that the self-styled South Fermanagh Brigade of the IRA fired shots at a house in the Newtownbutler area in retaliation for recent police raids on republican homes.
Two gunmen armed with AK47 assault rifles reportedly carried out the gun attack at approximately 8pm on Tuesday night of last week.
A caller who claimed to be from the IRA warned the PSNI that, “if they continue with their deliberate harassment and victimisation of republican families, we have no other option than to target the families belonging to them”.
http://fermanaghherald.com/2012/02/29/ira-claim-gun-attack-on-border/
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| RSAUB | Date: Monday, 2012-04-02, 5:45 PM | Message # 3 |
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| Found this story on the website from 2009 of a forgotten victim of Sinn Fein/IRA violence.
Woman disabled in IRA attack died after shock of servicemen"s deaths
Published 23 Apr 2009
Last Sunday was a day filled with poignant memories for the family of the late Mabel Hempton, a Fermanagh born former prison officer - who on that date exactly 30 years ago sustained devastating injuries in a terrorist attack in Co. Armagh.
The 57-year-old, who spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair following the IRA gun and grenade attack outside Armagh prison on April 19, 1979, passed away on March 12 this year; her family claim that she died of shock following the deaths of the two soldiers at Massereene Barracks and the policeman in Lurgan.
The shootings early last month 'set her back', according to her grieving sister, Jennifer Doonan, who claims her sister had become panic-stricken and fearful in the days afterwards.
Mabel was 27 years old when she was seriously injured in the 1979 IRA attack near Armagh prison. Another female prison officer, Mabel"s friend, Agnes was killed and two other colleagues were injured; the women had just left the prison to go for lunch.
Her sister recalls that an IRA gang later turned up at the hospital dressed as doctors, in her words 'to finish them off.' She says Mabel 'screamed because she knew they were fake and they ran off. From then on Mabel had the fear they were coming back to get her.'
In the years afterwards, Mabel, who received a bravery award from the Prison Officers" Association, coped by shutting herself away from the Troubles, according to her sister, Jennifer.
However, she feels that the recent attacks greatly affected her as she had been 'alright for a lot of years. We were coping.'
There had not been much talk of the Troubles for years, said Jennifer, adding that it then 'came out of the blue with such intensity'.
Jennifer said her sister suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and she said it had returned last month.
She feels that she never really got over the anxiety of the attack, 30 years ago, and 'never got over Agnes" death. In many ways, Mabel"s life ended on April 19, 1979.'
'Her life really stopped then,' believes Jennifer, who at that time was married.
Mabel, who needed constant care, moved into Jennifer"s home and shared in the lives of her family.
Jennifer"s husband, the late Tommy Doonan, originally from Lisnaskea, had been like a father figure to Mabel, whose own father died when she was 17. (Both men"s deaths also proved devastating events for her).
A daughter of Willie Hempton, a stone mason on the Great Northern Railway, and his wife, Ruby, Mabel was born between Newtownbutler and Clones.
When the railway closed, the Hemptons - who have always retained links with the county through relatives and friends - moved from their home at Clontivern on the Clones border, and transferred to Portadown.
Mabel, one of three siblings, was aged around four at the time. Her other sister, Barbara McNally, who survives her, lives in Portadown.
Mabel entered the Prison Service when she was 21 and had done six years" service when she was critically injured in the IRA attack. Remembered as a kind and loving figure, who loved children, she bred dogs, one of which got to Crufts. She maintained an association with friends in the Prison Service, which her sister said had been 'like a family'. She was a board member of the Prison Service Trust.
To lose her sister last month came as a major shock for Jennifer, a mother and grandmother, who can never forget the day that her sister"s life was changed forever on April 19, 1979. Thirty years on this week and it remains a painful memory for Jennifer Doonan.
Paying a warm tribute to her late sister, she recalls their last enjoyable outing together.
The Fermanagh orientated sisters, who lost a number of relatives from the county during the Troubles, had been to a prayer meeting in Tullylish Church Hall on the Wednesday night before Mabel"s death. Jennifer speaks of their strong faith and how it helped them through and she is very appreciative of the support of their minister, the Rev. Arthur Young, who led that night"s prayer meeting.
According to Jennifer 'it took little to tire' Mabel and she mentioned that her sister"s philosophy had been that she was 'in pain' both when she was out and when she was sitting in the house.
On that particular evening, friends helped Mabel transfer from her wheelchair into an armchair and it now saddens Jennifer when she recalls Mabel saying to her: 'I feel normal.'
'It"s not fair', said Jennifer, who has been deeply saddened by her much-loved sister"s unexpected passing; 'I went to call her the next morning and she was gone.'
Mabel"s widely attended funeral service took place at Tullylish Church of Ireland, Gildford on March 15, 2009 and she was buried in the adjoining churchyard with full Prison Service Honours.
Her death has left a major void in the lives of her family. 'I am still listening for her voice calling me,' said Jennifer, whose sister had been totally dependent on her. She feels that when you care for someone like this for almost 30 years, then you 'miss them more.'
http://www.impartialreporter.com/news....-deaths
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| Culzie | Date: Monday, 2012-04-02, 8:05 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Shocking to think what these bloody rat-bags done to people. She would only have been in her late twenties when this happened and was left a cripple for life. She was crippled for life and the scum responsible sit in all their glory at Stormont. Is it any wonder that people feel bitter and have a sense of injustice.
The 'powers-that-be' the media,the RC church,and those Protestant fools who supported the so-called 'civil rights'movement have all a lot to answer for. They created a Frankenstein Monster which like the original got out of control. Those 'Protestants' in particular by their actions gave creditability to those who later murdered and maimed people like Mabel.
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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| RSAUB | Date: Tuesday, 2012-04-03, 2:20 AM | Message # 5 |
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| Aye, these liberal scumbag traitors are nothing but vermin, now they are hitting retirement age themselves living in their safe areas like Bangor and Ards were they have retired to, meanwhile many families are still suffering and people suffering from their injuries due to the vermin that they helped get off the ground, now to mention the cultural cleansing and colonisation of our Country by the Irish. These traitors within our own community are nothing but the fifth column and should be treated as such. In all honesty I view the same as those who in France for example collaborated with the Nazis against their own people.
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| Culzie | Date: Friday, 2012-04-06, 11:25 PM | Message # 6 |
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| Well said. I have no time for those vainglory people who like to present themselves ''look at us how 'tolerant' we are'' and to look good and inflate their own ego. Thats what it its all about with these type of people. They turn on their own to make themselves look good. But not only that,it gave creditability to those republicans who later murdered and maimed thousands. That is the legacy those 'protestant' crawling arse-licking guttersnipes left us with.
The likes of Ivan Cooper who turned on his own is one example of this.
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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| RSAUB | Date: Saturday, 2012-04-07, 7:02 PM | Message # 7 |
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| Yip, those sort of vermin are nothing but scum, and they are the sort of people who actual say they would accept a United Ireland if that was the democratic wish of the people, that say's it all about these sort of vermin, they have no love of their people or Country.
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| Culzie | Date: Saturday, 2012-04-07, 9:12 PM | Message # 8 |
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| I thought Lord Laird too was preparing a way out for himself when he said that as a democrat he would accept an all-ireland solution if the people voted for it. It shows the difference in the two peoples. Republicans/nationalists never accepted the democratic will of the people of BU and sought to bring down the democratically elected goverment of the country. This they achieved though the ''ballot box in one hand and an Armalite in the other'' method.
We were also told that democracy was not enough. We were told that consenus was now what was needed. Why did Laird not say the same should still apply today. Nationalists/republicans have had 90 years to try and impose their will on BU. But yet all Laird can do is waffle about democracy when it was never recognised by those who would murder and maim in order to get their way.
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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| RSAUB | Date: Sunday, 2012-04-08, 7:59 PM | Message # 9 |
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| Very true, to me this also shows that these types of people deep down just don't see Ulster as a separate Nation from Eire.
When you watched that programme, it was amazing how friendly he got on with that rebel piece of vermin McElduff. Just show's you the mentality of those sort of people.
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