ARLENE Foster has said she is disappointed that Shame Féin’s Northern leader Michelle O’Neill is attending a commemoration for eight IRA (Loughgall Martyrs) members murdered by the SAS in Co Armagh. Ms O’Neill will address a republican parade and memorial event on Sunday marking the 30th Anniversary since the ambush in Loughgall. The DUP leader questioned M’s O’Neill’s attendance saying,
“we have heard a lot during the election about respect and they need to understand what that means in terms of the past and indeed in terms of the future here in ‘The North of Ireland'”. Undercover soldiers (SAS) murdered eight, picture above, IRA members in May 1987 in a ‘Shoot to Kill’ operation as they approached Loughgall RUC/PSNI station with a bomb. They IRA members were: Jim Lynagh, Padraig McKearney, Gerard O’Callaghan, Tony Gormley, Brothers Eugene Kelly, Patrick Kelly, Seamus Donnelly and Declan Arthur’s. A civilian, Anthony Hughes, was also shot dead by the SAS in the gunfire.
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