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| Gail Walker |
The passage of time can be unforgiving and, for Billy McCurrie, 45 years have not dulled the memory of what it felt like to take the life of another man one winter's morning in Belfast.
Talking at his home in England, where he has been a pastor for two decades, he's immediately transported back to that moment, to that street in the east of the city, to those bewildered, panicked eyes that met his, as dawn broke on February 19, 1976.
"The opportunity came to take part in an execution," he says, his Belfast accent still strong despite the years across the Irish Sea.
Like us, he was a member of the UVF. We were told he was an informer. There was myself and an accomplice. We picked up the guns. My accomplice knew more of the details. He knew where the guy worked and what time he turned up for work. We were waiting for him in a derelict street. Nobody saw us during the shooting. It was 20 minutes after it before the police turned up. We were clean away.
Talking at his home in England, where he has been a pastor for two decades, he's immediately transported back to that moment, to that street in the east of the city, to those bewildered, panicked eyes that met his, as dawn broke on February 19, 1976.
"The opportunity came to take part in an execution," he says, his Belfast accent still strong despite the years across the Irish Sea.
Like us, he was a member of the UVF. We were told he was an informer. There was myself and an accomplice. We picked up the guns. My accomplice knew more of the details. He knew where the guy worked and what time he turned up for work. We were waiting for him in a derelict street. Nobody saw us during the shooting. It was 20 minutes after it before the police turned up. We were clean away.
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Curious, is the affliction of the 'saved' rabies more prevalent among the Huns than the Taigs? I've seen many examples of self proclaimed salvation via personal encounters of divinity amongst the Blackmouths but less so amongst the Mackrel snappers. Why so?
ReplyDeleteCatholicism, with its Penitential Rite is ultimately a more laissez faire religion than the Reformist Churches
ReplyDeleteA couple of 'Our Fathers' and several dozen 'Hail Mary's' and we have a clean sheet
Some of your crowd place a heavier toll on redemption
Maybe that answers your question Steve?
Makes sense thank HJ.
DeleteA couple of 'Our Fathers' and several dozen 'Hail Mary's' and we have a clean sheet
ReplyDeleteNot a bad deal...
Sow your wild oats Friday night Frankie
DeleteConfess on Saturday
And pray for redemption Sunday