Mother of Dead IRA man on Wanted List
Setanta
Sunday Times : 3/5/98
Mother of dead IRA man on wanted list
by Liam Clarke
and Phelim McAleer
THE mother of the IRA terrorist shot dead by gardai on Friday night is
wanted by the RUC for luring three British soldiers to their deaths in
1973.
Roisin McLaughlin, 55, is alleged to have been part of a two-strong
team of Cumann na mBan (the IRA's female division) who were used to
lure the soldiers into an ambush.
The women picked up the servicemen near army headquarters in Lisburn.
The soldiers agreed to go to a party where it was promised there would
be girls and alcohol.
Four soldiers were enticed to an Antrim Road flat where they were
invited to help themselves to food and drink, while the women said
they were leaving to collect friends. Then two IRA gunmen burst in,
frogmarched the men into another room and forced them to lie face down
on a bed before shooting them.
Two soldiers died instantly, a third died later and a fourth survived
because he moved when he heard the firing start.
An attempt by Ulster authorities to have McLaughlin extradited failed
when Mr Justice Finlay ruled that the murders were political offences.
Friends of Ronan McLaughlin, who was shot dead during the attempted
robbery of a security van on Friday evening, have revealed he was a
"life-long republican", committed to the IRA.
According to republicans, McLaughlin, 28, was open about his support
for the IRA from an early age. Raised in Whitehall, north Dublin, he
moved to Ballymun with his girlfriend, also a republican.
About four years ago he moved to a remote part of north Donegal, and
got a job in the building trade. Garda sources do not think there was
any sinister motive for his moving closer to the border. He moved back
to Dublin last year.
One of the five men arrested during the garda operation is a close
relative of Lucilita Bhreathnach, a member of Sinn Fein's negotiating
team at Stormont.
The police admitted yesterday that members of the Emergency Response
Unit were not shot at first in Friday's attempted security van robbery
near Ashford. They had originally stated that the six-man gang opened
fire first.
A garda statement said that its members were confronted by an armed
gang of six people, who pointed loaded weapons at them.
In this situation, it said, armed gardai acted in accordance with
policy, shooting one of the raiders dead. They regretted the loss of
life.
Jerry
Ulster is nobody's Czechoslovakia
Alan D Red
J...@red.branch.knights (Setanta) wrote:
>Sunday Times : 3/5/98
>Mother of dead IRA man on wanted list
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>In this situation, it said, armed gardai acted in accordance with
>policy, shooting one of the raiders dead. They regretted the loss of
>life.
>
>Jerry
>Ulster is nobody's Czechoslovakia
Up here they call it ''shoot to kill'' Bloody joke!
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