UDA trying to provoke IRA - McGuinness
Mid-Ulster MP Martin McGuinness has accused the UDA of attempting
to provoke the IRA into retaliation and a return to war.
McGuinness was speaking after the latest UDA attack on
Magherafelt GAA Club at the weekend.
The device, left outside the O'Donovan Rossa club, was defused by
the British Army on Sunday 29 July. The bomb had been spotted
before the weekly training session for up to 60 children at the
club's pitch on the Castledawson Road.
``I have no doubt that the concerted campaign of attacks that we
are witnessing across the North is the work of the UDA,'' he said.
``The device discovered at the Magherafelt GAA Club could easily
have resulted in multiple deaths if any of the 60 children
expected at the club for training had picked it up.
``Against this background of a murder campaign being waged by the
UDA against the republican and nationalist people of the
Six-Counties, it is particularly offensive to have Ronnie
Flanagan state in a newspaper interview that the greatest threat
to the Peace Process comes from the activities of so-called
republican dissidents. By his nonsensical and insulting comments
Ronnie Flanagan is behaving like a cheerleader and apologist for
the UDA, who are clearly attempting to draw the IRA back into a
war situation.
``I urge republicans and nationalists to be extra vigilant and not
to approach or pick up suspicious objects.''
Two years ago a workman was injured while building on the new
club was underway. The man lifted a booby trapped breeze block
which exploded, causing him slight injuries to his hand.
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