Comrades in cause for freedom
The Irish Republican Army lost two of its bravest and
most dedicated volunteers when a bomb, which was being
transported prior to an attack on a military
installation in South Armagh, prematurely exploded last
Monday.
IRA volunteers Brendan Moley (30) from Newry Road,
Crossmaglen, and Brendan Burns (30) from Dorsey,
Cullyhanna, had been members of the republican movement
since they were 16, when they joined Fianna Eireann.
Although they were in different sluaite, they both
attended the local Crossmaglen secondary school and a
strong bond of friendship quickly developed. It was a
friendship which turned into an unshakable comradeship
when they joined Oglaigh na hEireann a year later and
began operating in the South Armagh countryside, a
terrain which British forces fear and which both
volunteers played no small part in making a no-go area
for them.
The British have been gloating over their deaths in the
past few days but they should take note: in South
Armagh and in every nationalist town, village and city
of the occupied Six Counties, volunteers of the Irish
Republican Army are now doubly determined and ready to
ensure that their comrades fight for British withdrawal
and Irish freedom becomes a reality.
Phoblacht 3 March 1988
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