RUC protect loyalists
Finbar Conway, SF councillor in Cookstown, has blasted the RUC
for protecting loyalist vandals while they painted kerbstones
red, white and blue. Several residents complained to the
councillor after seeing RUC men providing security for the gang
on Saturday evening 11 July.
Conway said, ``This simply underpins the reality that the RUC is a
loyalist force.''
The councillor said that local people are entitled to ask why
young nationalists are dragged off to court and fined for this
activity whilst the RUC provide loyalists with cover to engage in
the same acts. He confirmed that he would be raising the matter
with the Dublin government, the Belfast centre for human rights
and would be urging the Department of Environment to clean the
kerbstones after the holidays.
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