By Mairia Cahill |
Sinn Fein has treated the many long-suffering victims of the IRA like dirt on the end of a shoe.
In 2007, a 21-year-old man was lured to a shed in Co Monaghan with the promise of work clearing up a farmyard. Instead, 10 ''men'' beat him with iron bars while his friend was forced to listen. "You could hear the bars bouncing off him… he was screaming," he said at the time. Had he lived, as his mother pointed out last week, Paul Quinn would now be 34.
Everyone knows the IRA was responsible for killing him, except the recently appointed Northern finance minister, Conor Murphy, who said he had been given "solid assurances" that the IRA hadn't been involved. He stated Quinn had been killed as the result of a "criminal feud". Paul's parents have repeatedly called for a retraction of this statement. Murphy has never done so. He has also never disclosed who he had spoken to that led him to form that opinion.
Paul was murdered nine years after the Good Friday Agreement by shadowy figures who have never been prosecuted for the crime. Shadowy figures protected those killers. Life in Northern Ireland has never been normal, but the memory of Breege Quinn, Paul's mother, sobbing as she told me her son was beaten so badly that she couldn't even put rosary beads on his hands will haunt me forever. Such a simple ritual that couldn't be observed because the animals who battered Paul left, as a doctor told his family, "nothing to fix".
A few months ago, Mary Lou McDonald was asked about Paul Quinn and specifically if Conor Murphy would retract his "criminal" remark. "I will ask Conor Murphy to say and do things that give confidence and comfort to the Quinn family," she said. The Quinn family heard nothing after this interview, from Murphy or McDonald.
The situation with other victims of the IRA is similar. Sinn Fein have treated them like dirt on the end of a shoe, trodden into the carpet for good measure.
On whose instructions have they been acting over decades?
Read more @ the Sunday Indo.
Not that it makes a difference but did they actually mean to kill him? I got the gist of it, apparently he'd had a barney with the son of a local Provo, refused to leave and copped this. Slab then throws money and threats around to keep people quiet, the shinners can't squirm their way out of it because of his involvement would create a rift and here we are.
ReplyDelete“... Not that it makes a difference but did they actually mean to kill him?...”
DeleteSteve R, it’s said they broke every bone in his body. Surely a measure of their intention.
The DUP should seize this opportunity and reach out to the family of Paul Quinn and hold a public vigil for them if for nothing else to watch Provo Fringe Feign squirm. And Micky Donnelly's family should also come as guest speakers to talk about "...what a long way down" this two-faced political scumbaggary has taken Irish people.
ReplyDeleteReference for starters:
http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu:81/am22100511g.html
Interesting that this should rise to the surface when SF have taken the lead in the election according to polls that is.....the DUP and everyone else couldn't give two flying fucks about Paul Quinn and would only be using his death for their own political gain which I'm sure his family would be oeverjoyed at......
ReplyDeleteNiall,
ReplyDeleteToo bad, but that’s politics.
PIRA haunts make for PSF taunts.
And of course, the DUP and Provo SF don’t care about Paul Quinn.
They’ll just use whatever they can for their own political sake.
So, his family should just play these ghouls off against each other.
In fact, to borrow a phrase, I’d think they’d be overjoyed to.
Because they won’t get any justice otherwise.
Mary Lou McDonald will help make sure of that.
That’s why Gerry Adams selected her.
As such, she'll only dance with the ones who brought her.
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