Serving Judas, Not Justice

By Anthony McIntyre (for the Blanket)

We met close to the offices of the Sunday World, the site where our late colleague Marty O’Hagan had plied his trade before his murder at the hands of a Lurgan drug dealing gang known as the Loyalist Volunteer Force. We then made our way across a sunny Belfast on our journey to the PSNI headquarters at Knock Road. Along the Newtownards Road, Sandown Road and onto the Kings Road before making the final turn for Knock. It was a journey I was familiar with, having beat the same track for three years on the no. 20 Tullycarnet bus while a pupil at St Patrick’s College, Gilnahirk. As much as I disliked school, the journey in those tender years had a destination considerably less bleak than the current one.

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