Martin Hurson remembered
The seventeenth anniversary of the death of Tyrone hunger
striker, Martin Hurson, was commemorated in the village of
Cappagh on Monday evening 13 July.
Several hundred Republicans gathered at Galbally Pearse's GAA
club to walk to the monument which honours the hunger strikers of
1981, the eight Volunteers murdered at Loughgall in 1987 and all
of Tyrone's patriot dead. They were led by a sixteen strong
colour party, The Martin Hurson Memorial Flute Band and the
recently formed Coalisland-Clonoe Flute Band. A minute's silence
was observed on Cappagh's Main Street at the site of O'Boyle's
bar where four men were murdered by a pro-British death squad.
At the monument wreaths were laid by the Hurson family, other
local families and all sections of the Republican movement in the
county.
In his oration Sinn Fein vice president Pat Doherty paid tribute
to Tyrone's ``crucial role in the struggle for Irish freedom.''
He added ``Tyrone has always been at the forefront of the struggle
for Irish independence and we owe it to those young people who
died trying to bring about a united Ireland to do all we can in
the coming months and years to further that objective. The tide
of history demands that we continue going forward.''
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