SEFF remembers Liam Conway, 39, RC digger driver on a gas pipe laying operation at Hesketh Rd, off Crumlin Rd, Belfast when a loyalist gunman singled him out & shot him twice in the head on 23/1/98.
Liam was rushed to the Mater Hosp but died within hrs without regaining ....
consciousness.
Liam & his family were originally from Tyrone. He lived alone near the rest of his family in Roseleigh St.
He was described by neighbours as a quiet man who was the main breadwinner for the others, helping to support his 2 blind brothers & his sister. Liam ...
..was also only partially sighted.
The Auxiliary Bishop of Down & Connor said at Liam's funeral that those who were truly blind were "those whose eyes were covered with the cataracts of bitterness & bigotry, hostility & hatred".
On the day of Liam’s funeral it was reported ..
..that attempts were made to burn cards & flowers left at Hesketh St in his memory.
Liam’s family originally came from Tyrone but he lived alone in Brookhill Av.
SEFF’s thoughts & prayers are with all innocents impacted by Liam’s murder, murder motivated by naked sectarianism.
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SEFF remembers Judge William Staunton, 46, RC, who died 49 yrs ago, 25/1/73 of his injuries after he was shot by PIRA on 11/10/72 as he drove his daughter & school friends to St Dominics school on Falls Rd.
He stopped the car outside & as the girls got out, 2 IRA members on a ..
..motorcycle came alongside the car, the pillion passenger shooting William.
Visiting trauma on children was of no concern to PIRA.
William underwent emergency surgery at the RVH & although he regained consciousness he died in hospital.
He was the 1st of the legal fraternity..
..murdered by PIRA but not the last. Others included; Rory Conaghan & Martin McBirney in '74, William Doyle in '83, & Lord Justice Sir Maurice Gibson in '87. PIRA was also responsible for the deaths of Lord Justice Gibson's wife Cecily & Mary Travers (a daughter of Judge Tom ....
SEFF remembers John McColgan, 33, RC taxi driver, married with 3 kids, found on a grass verge on the outskirts of W Belfast. He'd been forced out of his taxi & shot 5 times in the back of the head on 24/1/98 by loyalist terrorists, There remains controversy as to whether it was..
..the UDA/UFF or LVF.
John had earlier picked up a man in Andersonstown. It was believed that this same man attempted to get another taxi but the driver refused the pickup because he was going in the opposite direction.
John's car was found burnt out at the Giant's Ring near..
.Shaw’s Bridge. John was buried at the City Cemetery after a service at Corpus Christi Church.
His wife had to be carried by relatives from her home to her car after she collapsed. Speaking in the aftermath of the murder of her husband, Lorraine said that she & her children ..
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SEFF remembers RUC Insp. Derek Monteith, 35, Protestant from Kilburn Pk on the outskirts of Armagh, married with 3 kids, murdered in the kitchen of his home by PIRA on 22/1/90.
2 gunmen opened fire through a glass door firing..
..between 15 & 30 high velocity rounds from the garden of the house through the panel.
Derek was hit by at least 5 bullets & fragments in the head, neck & body. His wife found him lifeless. Mrs Monteith was watching television with their 7, 10 & 12-yr-old sons.
Derek had ...
..taken coffee cups to the kitchen. His wife said: "the next thing I heard was a volley of shots. I froze until the shooting ended".
She said she heard her boys coming up the hall & ran to them & then went to the utility room where she found her husband lying against the door..
SEFF remembers RUC Const Michael Ferguson, 21, RC, from Omagh, Co Tyrone, murdered on 23/1/93 by PIRA, when he was responding to a shoplifter at the Richmond Shopping Centre, L'derry, around 2.35pm on a busy Sat.
He was approached ...
..by a lone gunman & shot twice to the head at close range.
The gunman made off on foot in the direction of the Bogside. An off-duty Doctor attended to Michael at the scene & a short time later he was pronounced dead at Altnagelvin Hosp.
Michael had almost completed his ....
..probation at the time of his murder. He had followed in the footsteps of his father, Cons Dan Ferguson & his brother Cons Joe Ferguson.
He was a very keen sports person & enjoyed weightlifting and swimming. He had achieved awards in Power lifting & had worked at his local ..
SEFF remembers Kieran McCann, 19, RC garage worker from Ivy Bank, Donaghmore. He was taken at gunpoint from the garage he had been working in near Eglish, Co. Tyrone & murdered about 300 yds away by PIRA on 22/1/76, PIRA said he gave info to the RUC. Kieran's father was a UDR ..
..man. When the gunmen entered the garage, they ordered 1 person to leave & told a customer to lie on the floor then took Kieran outside.
At the Jul/76 inquest, the customer said that the gunmen asked Kieran if he was Kieran McCann to which he said "no". They then put a gun ...
..the customer’s head & told him to identify Kieran, which he did.
The garage owner, a parish priest, & a local school principal later found Kieran's body in a derelict house. He had died from 4 gunshot wounds to the head. Cardinal William Conway said at Kieran's funeral "I ...
SEFF remembers Sir Norman Stronge & his son James, cruelly murdered by PIRA on 21/1/81, whilst they sat watching Television in the Library of their home, Tynan Abbey, which was then burnt to the ground while the 8 gunmen fled.
Sir Norman epitomised throughout his life what it ..
..meant to be an Ulsterman. He enlisted to the 10th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers & having survived the 1st day of the Battle of the Somme, he was the 1st soldier to be mentioned in dispatches by Sir General Douglas Haig. He was awarded the Military Cross for ...
..his actions in WW1. He also served in the North Irish Horse during WWII.
Sir Norman also served his country by holding several political offices, most notably he was elected as MP for Mid Armagh & later was also appointed Speaker of the NI Parliament, a post he held for over..