Republican News · Thursday 31 October 2002

Short Srand again under fire

Loyalist gangs operating out of Cluan Place carried out a day of sustained attacks on nationalist homes in the Clandeboye Drive and Clandeboye Gardens area of the Short Strand on Tuesday 30 October.

Throughout the day, a constant rain of missiles was directed at nationalist homes but the violence intensified as darkness fell and at least two blast or pipe bomb devices were thrown.

Visiting the area on Wednesday, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, accompanied by party chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin, called on the British government to ensure the safety of Short Strand residents.

Joe O'Donnell the Sinn Féin councillor for the area, displayed a device, a huge firework taped to a bottle of highly flammable cellulose thinners, which had also been thrown into the enclave on Tuesday.