Monday, February 25, 2008

Sinn Fein to Memorialize Dead Terrorist

The Sinn Fein/IRA terrorist sympathizers in Northern Ireland want to memorialize Maireád Farrell, who bombed a hotel outside Belfast


The NI Assembly Commission has not reached a decision on two contentious events to be held at Stormont.
The cross-party grouping discussed the issue and adjourned its meeting until later in the week.
Sinn Fein plans to hold an event celebrating IRA member Maireád Farrell. The DUP plans an event to celebrate the SAS during the Troubles.
Farrell was one of three IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar 20 years ago.

Assembly member Jeffrey Donaldson is making the DUP application. He said Sinn Fein's plan should not go ahead.
"I believe we should celebrate the lives of role models but who in their right mind could view a terrorist who was prepared to kill innocent men, women and children as a role model?"
He added: "However, it is right and proper that we should celebrate and commemorate our armed forces who stood against terrorists such as Farrell."
DUP leader Ian Paisley led a party delegation to meet assembly speaker William Hay to discuss the proposed event.
Speaking after Monday's meeting, Mr Paisley said: "We had a useful and frank meeting with the speaker and my colleagues and I expressed in very forthright terms our opinion that this disgraceful proposal should not be given the go-ahead."
He added: "The DUP will oppose any commemoration for murderers in Stormont and will use all of our influence to prevent this event from taking place. I am confident that we are bringing closure to this issue."
Gibraltar
Maireád Farrell was shot dead in Gibraltar in 1988 along with two other IRA members by the SAS.
Keys to a car found in her handbag led to the discovery in Spain of five packages of Semtex explosive.
Farrell had previously been jailed between 1976 and 1986 for the bombing of the Conway Hotel in Dunmurry, outside Belfast.

What if CAIR held a memorial service for Mohammed Atta in southern Manhattan, how well would that go in New York? That gives you an idea of how Irish protestants feel about memorializing Farrell.

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