trim sectarian bombings
by Pádraig MacDabhaid
Sinn Féin Assembly member for Upper Bann, Dr. Dara O'Hagan, is urging
nationalists to remain vigilant in the wake of another loyalist pipe
bomb attack.
The attack took place outside the Derryhirk Inn near Aghagallon,
County Antrim, at 10.30pm on Wednesday 24 March. Bar owner Patsy
Mulholland said that there were 12 people in the bar when the bomb,
which was claimed by the Orange Volunteers, detonated in the car
park. ``The nerves of the people inside the bar are wrecked. The
window of my car was blown in and there is a hole in the road
outside'', he said.
Two years ago, masked RUC members opened fire on doormen in the bar
before entering and making customers and staff lie on the ground at
gun point.
In a second attack in County Antrim in a week, a bomb was planted on
the windowsill of a Catholic family home in Drummual Park,
Randalstown, on Friday, 26 March.
The attack is being linked to the Orange Volunteers. It is widely
known that the LVF in this area have been using this moniker as a
cover name in order to launch attacks in the South Antrim area.
There have been more than 50 gun and bomb attacks on nationalist
homes and businesses throughout the Six Counties in the last three
months.
Dr. O'Hagan, speaking about the Derryhirk Inn attack, said: ``The
attempt to kill the patrons of the Derryhirk Inn poses many
questions, not just about this attack but indeed the attack which
killed Rosemary Nelson. The fact that these so-called dissident
loyalist groups continue to use their trademark crude pipe bombs adds
further weight to the claims that last week's sophisticated bomb
attack which killed Rosemary Nelson could not have been carried out
by these loyalist groups.
``Answers can only be found with the establishment of an independent,
international investigation into the Nelson killing and the exact
nature of the collusion which clearly still exists between the RUC
and the loyalist death squads.''
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