Remember Thomas Madden, 48, RC night watchman from Cliftonpark Av, murdered on 13/8/72 by UDA/UFF.

Thomas left the Meeting of the Waters pub at 20:45 to go to work.

He was abducted, brought to a garage and suspended from a wooden beam. In the torturous attack he suffered a .... ..reported 147 stab wounds all over his body. The cause of death was reported as, strangulation.

The RUC described Thomas as "a quiet, respectable man with sober habits". A woman nr where Thomas’s body was found said she heard someone repeatedly screaming "kill me, kill me". ...

Kathleen and Terry Mullan - 16th October 1986
Remembers Kathleen Mullan, 76, RC, married with family & son Terry, 31, RC car dealer, divorced, 2 kids, murdered in her farmhouse, Ballynahinch. They were having their breakfast around 8:00am on 16/10/86, when a UDA/UFF man came in.. ..& shot them.
Kathleen's husband, Tommy, was upstairs. The Oct/87 inquest was told by a forensic scientist that he believed the gunman came in through the back door & fired a shot at Terry & then chased him into the living room & fired another shot. He caught Terry on the ...

Remember Michael Clerkin, 24, RC, Garda officer murdered by a PIRA booby trap bomb that had exploded in a deserted cottage nr Portlaoise on 16/10/76. 4 other Garda officers were injured, 1 blinded for life. 3 of the surviving officers are valued SEFF members.
Garda had earlier.. .. received information that a bomb was being prepared at the house ahead of an assassination attempt on TD Oliver J Flanagan, father of current Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan.

2 cars went to the house & were about 200 yds up a laneway.
Michael went through a back ...

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This is a 2-finger salute to those who sought to hold accountable unacceptable pro IRA chanting by the RoI Women's National Team.

Singing such chants is not an expression of being Irish, nor is it some sort of resistance expression & those who engaged .. ..in the chants at Dublin Airport, or any other place need to catch themselves on & fast.

PIRA systematically murdered Protestants, RCs & Dissenters; unionists, nationalists & others, men, women & children & it maimed so many others as well as doing their best to wreck the ...

Remember Cecil Cunningham, 46, Protestant, married, 1 child, RUC GC, from Westway Gdns & John Haslett, 21, Protestant, RUC GC, from Russell Pk, Gilnahirk, nr Belfast.murdered at the jn of Twaddell Av & Woodvale Rd in a PIRA gun attack in Belfast on 15/10/71.

They were .... ..stationed at Tennent St RUC station & were in plain clothes, when they were keeping watch on a savings bank & post office & their car was hit by at least 6 shots by gunmen in a passing Ford Cortina.
The Belfast Telegraph was told by a shop keeper: "the whole side of the car..

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Remember John Breslin, 18, photographic technician & Nora Field, murdered on 10/10/81

John was sitting on a wall when a PIRA van bomb exploded at Chelsea Barracks, London. Norah was also murdered. When the bomb exploded, shrapnel was spread over a wide area... ..Kevin Breslin, John's father, from Co. Roscommon, said: "it's their own people they are killing. They are Irish. I am Irish & they killed my son". He said John was never interested in politics.
In 1985, a 29-yr-old Belfast man Paul Kavanagh, Martin McGuinness' former Special..

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Remember Raymond McAdam, 20, RC, from Annaghmore Glebe, Co Fermanagh nr Cavan border, murdered on 12/10/73, trying to save a Protestant (Lily Nicholls) owner of a shop, opposite his home, that PIRA threw a bomb into from a passing car.

Raymond died instantly ... ..while the 68-yr-old pensioner he went to warn suffered severe injuries to her head, arm & side.

Raymond's 2 sisters & brother were also hurt. S Fermanagh PIRA unit compounded the wrong by claiming that they were not responsible & refuted press reports that it was involved...

Remember Winifred Maxwell, 45, Protestant bookkeeper from Westmoreland St in the Shankill area, married, 1 child, murdered, on 8/10/71, in a no warning UDA/UFF bomb explosion at the Fiddlers House pub, an RC owned bar with a mixed clientele.
19 were injured. The army said the .. ..bomb containing up to 20lbs of gelignite was placed at the front of the bar.
The May/72 inquest was told that Winifred had just ordered lemonade when the bomb exploded. A man who was standing with her said they had gone into the bar around 20:30.
He added: "We went down the..

Remember Yvonne Dunlop, 27, Protestant, from Wilson Cr, Ballymena married, 3 kids, murdered by PIRA in a fire at the Alley Katz boutique in Bridge St, Ballymena on 9/10/76. There was a wave of PIRA firebombing attacks in the area & a total of 16 devices went off in the town, ... ..causing widespread damage.
The shop was owned by her father & she was helping out. The court was told that Yvonne was checking a shopping bag that had been left by 2 girls when the bomb exploded.

Yvonne's 9-yr-old son was with her at the time. She had time to shout to him ..

Remember Graham Tuck, 23, murdered on 9/10/75 at a bus stop near Green Park tube station close to Piccadilly Circus, London by a bomb which injured 20 others.
It was planted by PIRA's Balcomb St gang & was made up of gelignite & heavy bolts. Gang members said in statements to .. ..police that the intended target was the Ritz Hotel.
The man placing the bomb became concerned about security at the Ritz & carried it into the toilets at Green Pk st where he defused it & waited for a while. He said he began to prime the bomb but said: "some guy in the next ..

Remember Mark McGrann, 24, RC, on his way home to Carlisle Sq with his girlfriend at 12:40am, 8/10/79 when he was shot by the UDA/UFF, on the Laganbank Rd at Albert Bridge.

Mark's girlfriend shouted to him to run but he turned & ran toward a cyclist who pulled a handgun from.. ..his jacket & shot him once in the chest & 2 more times after he fell to the ground. As the gunman made his escape on the bicycle he shouted: "up the UVF".

Mark was taken to the RVH by a motorist but was pronounced doa.

His mother described him as: "a quiet, hard-working ..

Remember RUC GC Supt Alwyn Harris, 51, Protestant from Dalboyne Gdns, Lisburn married, 2 kids, murdered on 8/10/89, when a 2lb PIRA bomb exploded under his car nr his home, at 11:00am when he & his wife were going to church for a Harvest Thanksgiving. She escaped with minor .... ..injuries.
Alwyn had served in Belfast, Armagh & L'derry & was a sub divisional commander in Newcastle. He had a serious heart condition & was on sick leave.
Alwyn was responsible for having 6 Royal Marines removed from duty in Kilkeel after receiving complaints they had been..

Remember Margaret Hearst, 24, Protestant, P/T UDR, from Doolgarry, Tynan, nr Middletown, Co Armagh. 3 yr old child, murdered on 8/10/77 at her parents' home.
PIRA gunmen burst in, held her grandmother & young brothers at gunpoint while they waited for her to arrive & shot her. .. ..At the time, Margaret's daughter was in the next room cuddling a toy frog when a bullet passed through it.
The Orange Order, the NI Civil Rights Ass'n & Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich all condemned it.

A Middletown teenager was sentenced in May/79 & detained indefinitely because ..

Remember Desmond Irvine, 40, Protestant, married, chief principal officer at the Maze prison & secretary of the Prison Officers Association, from Skegoneil Av, N Belfast, murdered on 7/10/77 - ambushed by PIRA gunmen around 16:15 in the Wellington Pk area after he attended a ... ..conference at the NI Public Services Alliance.
Desmond was hit in the head when 2 gunmen opened fire.

2 weeks prior to his death he had taken part in a Thames Television programme on life in the Maze. An unusual move on Desmond's part was that he agreed to be identified. ...

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Statement from the family of John Eagleson
(Brutally murdered on 1/10/82 by PIRA)
“Our father was a special man, he worked hard to provide for our family & faithfully fulfilled the role of provider, but he was also a man who was loving & caring towards .. ..us, his children. He wanted the very best for us & along with our Mum raised us within a home where we were taught to respect & indeed; value our neighbours.

On 1/10/82 all was to change within our lives, PIRA terrorists plotted the assassination of our father, they decided ..

Remember the 11 innocents murdered in the Deal Barracks bombing in Kent.
The attack was carried out on the Royal Marine Depot at 8:22 am on 22/9/89, when PIRA exploded a time bomb at the Royal Marines School of Music building.
The building collapsed, killing 11 & wounding .. ..another 21.
The blast destroyed the recreational centre, levelled the 3-story accommodation building next to it & caused extensive damage to the rest of the base & nearby civilian homes. It was heard several kilometres away, shaking windows in the centre of Deal & created a..

Images taken this morning at an intimate event where the family of John Eagleson (ex RUC Reserve & ex UDR) came together at the scene where their father was murdered.
John was murdered on 1/10/82 (40 yrs ago next week)

We thank Rev Dianne Matchett for her facilitation of the ... ..Service. She will also oversee a Church-based service of Remembrance & Thanksgiving in Kildress CoI on Sunday 23/10/22 @ 3pm.

It was particularly nice to see former UDR CGC & RUC GC personnel present who knew John personally.

It's SEFF’s honour to be working with the family..

Remember Tommy, 53, UDR & his wife Emily, 50, murdered 50 yrs ago, 21/9/72 - brutally shot by PIRA at their home at Aghalane, nr Derrylin.
The double murder is regarded by many as being particularly brutal; not just the act itself but also because of the callous activities of .. ..Republicans in the aftermath of the murder who are reported to have obstructed the hearse cortege as well as having rung through offensive messages to the local Abattoir.

Dianne Woods, SEFF Member & Tommy's niece reflects, 'My aunt used to lie on the landing in a sleeping ...

John Haldane - 20th September 1991

Remember John Haldane, 54, Protestant businessman, MD of a timber firm in Belfast’s Docks area, married, 4 kids, murdered on 20/9/91.

He was in an upstairs office dictating a letter to a secretary when two masked PIRA gunmen burst into the .. ..office & shot him. Police said the gunmen must have had a "certain amount of knowledge of the layout" & entered through a staircase.

One of the gunmen called John by the name of the firm's financial director who had been in the next office before they shot him twice in the ..

Remember Lilly McCollum, 61, married 2 kids, 7 grandkids, (2 of them Nigel & Reginald murdered in later yrs by PIRA) from the Doris’ Cottages area, Newmills, Co Tyrone, fatally injured by a PIRA booby trap bomb attached to a shed door at her brother's house on 9/7/83. She was .. ..looking after her UDR brother’s home nr Cookstown while he was on a training exercise in England.

Lily received severe leg & facial injuries. After emergency surgery, she was transferred from the S Tyrone Hosp to the RVH where she died on 19/9.
Mourners at her funeral were ...

Remember Judge Rory Conaghan, 54, married, 2 daughters, murdered on 16/9/74 by PIRA, at his home in front of his 9-yr-old daughter, Deirdre. Neighbours were said to have ushered Deirdre away from the murder scene.

Fr. Edward Daly, the priest who famously waved a white handy on.. ..Bloody Sunday, was appointed Bishop of Derry in 1974. He recalled in his book:
"In Sept 1974, I was called upon to officiate at my 1st funeral of a victim of violence since my appointment as Bishop of Derry… Judge Rory Conaghan was a member of a distinguished Derry family & ..