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6 Jan

SEFF remembers RUC Sgt Eric Brown, 41, Protestant from Moira, married with 3 children & RUC Const Brian Quinn, 23, RC, from Bangor, murdered by PIRA on 6/1/83 in Rostrevor, when part of a divisional mobile support unit guarding a post office.
Shortly after 11:00am they stopped..

..to inspect a suspicious Ford Escort, sitting outside the PO. TWhen the officers approached the car, the gunmen inside opened fire.
A 3rd officer was injured. The 3 were rushed to the Daisy Hill Hosp, Newry. Eric & Brian were both pronounced doa. A theory about the attack was..

.. that the gunmen were preparing to rob the PO. The RUC said: "It does not seem to have the hallmarks of an ambush, & it could be that the gunmen were taken by surprise".

Eric's daughter Andrea Brown is Volunteer Coordinator of SEFF's Befriending Service. She has lifechanging

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5 Jan

SEFF remembers 10 innocents murdered in The Kingsmills massacre, 46 yrs ago, 5/1/76 by PIRA, nr Whitecross in S Armagh.
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Gunmen stopped a minibus carrying 11 Protestant workmen, lined them up alongside it & shot them. Only 1 victim survived (Alan Black), despite having been ...

..shot 18 times.

The bus had been stopped by a man in combat uniform standing on the road flashing a torch. The workers assumed it was the Regular Army.
As the bus stopped, 11 gunmen in combat uniform & with blackened faces emerged from the hedges. A man "with a pronounced ...

.. English accent" began talking.
He ordered the workers to get out of the bus & to line up facing it with their hands on the roof. He then asked "Who is the Catholic?".
The only RC was Richard Hughes. His workmates, now fearing that the gunmen were loyalists who had come to ...

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1 Jan

SEFF remembers Oliver Boyce, 25, RC carpenter from Main St, Clonmaney & fiancée Briege Porter, 21, factory worker from Hilltown, Buncrana, abducted & murdered 49 yrs ago 1/1/73, as they were coming home from a dance in Donegal, by UDA/UFF. in a sectarian attack.

Their bodies ...

..were located at Drumadooey nr Burnfoot, close to the border. Shots had been heard around 2am & when their bodies were located they had suffered several gun & knife wounds.
The murders were investigated by both the Garda & RUC & an 18 yr old bricklayer from Londonderry was ....

..extradited for trial in the RoI.
However, during the extradition process he was acquitted at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.
Nothing concerning the murders was the work of anyone truly loyal to their Country. They were the work of those consumed by sectarian & ethic ...

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1 Jan

SEFF remembers Samuel Pollock, 20, Protestant from Newcastle, Co Down, murdered in a PIRA undercar bomb at around 11am on 1/1/82, as Samuel & his brother were leaving Donard car park in Newcastle.

The car that they were travelling in was owned by a UDR Private & PIRA stated ...

..that he had been the intended target.

Samuel was described as being 'a wee gentleman’. His murder was 1 of a no. of tragedies to befall his family around that time inc his mother being killed in a car accident, an uncle dying in an accident in a social club, another uncle ..

..losing his legs in an undercar bomb & his brother surviving a landmine attack outside Castlewellan.
In Mar/20 at Parliament Buildings, Stormont Samuel's brother Glen shared his reflections of Samuel & other experiences of terrorism to a gathering of 200+ victims, elected reps..

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31 Dec 21

SEFF remembers Sean Cairns, 19, RC machinist, living with his parents in the Clonard area of Belfast, who was watching television on 31/12/79, when a gunman from an unspecified Loyalist group, burst into his home & shot him in the head. His father was seriously wounded in head ..

..& face. A female family member said that upon going into the hallway she saw a man standing inside the front door. She said: "he was wearing a parka jacket & had both his hands in his trouser pockets. The hood was up & I thought it was 1 of Sean's friends, so I opened the ...

living room door".

She said the man didn't speak & walked into the living room where he produced a gun & started shooting Sean & his father & then calmly walked out of the house without saying a word.

The Jan/81 inquest was told by Sean's father that he felt a burning ...

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30 Dec 21

SEFF remembers Maurice Thomas Knowles, 17, Protestant student from Derrycoole Way, Rathcoole, duck hunting with a friend at Belfast Lough, Whiteabbey, 30/12/74, when challenged by 2 other teenagers. One of them was armed with a rifle. As Maurice tried to run off, he was shot & ..

..lay dying in the mud.

Maurice's friend ran over to try to help him but he was ordered to bring his shotgun over & then asked if there were any cartridges. He replied there was none. He was then ordered to go & get his friend's cartridges. As he went to retrieve them, the 2 ..

..gunmen & 2 other men fled the scene.

When the trial reached Court the judge described the killing as a "cold blooded & deliberate killing". Tony (TC) Catney was given a life sentence for murder. On release from Prison he became heavily involved with Sinn Fein & was its' Dir..

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