micro organisations fire-bomb stores in Newry
Incendiary devices believed to have been used in attacks on stores in Newry last night, completely destroying two stores and severely damaging others, have been attributed to “republican micro organisations” by Sinn Féin, according to the BBC, while the UUP have linked the timng of the attack to the 35th anniversary of internment, and the SDLP have described it as futile. Further report by the Press Association and by RTÉ and, according to the BBC report, there are ongoing security alerts in the area.Updated Confirmed the “republican micro organisations” quote from Conor Murphy’s statement in which he adds..
“I would call on those responsible for this incident to look objectively at the current political situation and to carefully consider your options. This sort of activity does nothing for this community and is an attack on the peace process which is supported by the overwhelming number of people on this island.
“This activity is wrong and should stop.”
And anyone with information about the attacks…?
How long do we have to wait before the next gang of political no-hopers join the arson and mayhem trail. If the equal rights for all sentient species, communists, esperanto speakers, goths, punks, etc all cotton onto the media’s love affair with burnt plastic and hopeless romantics we won’t have a shop left in town.
This is just bandits with big mouths and nothing useful to say hijacking bandwidth.
You may feign anger, you may even kill.
Your day never came, it never will.
few wee photos of the damage on http://www.flickr.com/photos/missfitz
Newry by-pass remains closed tonight, and there is a very visible police presence in the town. I noted a lot of activity around St Colman’s College, which is a bit strange for the time of night.
…a simple press statement condemning the actions of those who allegedly planted the incendiary devices would have been sufficient. But hey, why miss out on good photo ops?
This is the new hazy green styled politics of the SF Press Machine. When the PROVOS were blowing up Newry they were trying to secure a UI, when others are blowing up Newry they are just damaging their own community. And the difference anyone?
Stupid idiots. I’m not saying it’s ok to bomb anywhere, but why didn’t they go to 25 miles down the road and burn spurcefield, maybe then some logic could bederived from it. This is absolutely senseless wanton vandalism from about 40 disenfranchised provos with ample time on their hands. It just fucks things up for the people of Newry. And now that the bypass is closed, the volume of traffic on the Dublin Road where i live is going to make sleeping difficult tonight….
It should perhaps be noted, just for the record, that the RAF no longer bomb Dresden, Hamburg and other German cities in order to ensure the survival of British capital over German capital. That particular war has finished. An agreement between warring parties was reached. As so recently in Ireland.
There are of course always some confused, backward elements within both British and German societies who are unable to come to terms with that. As with them these groups in Ireland constitute a severe nuisance but cannot impede inevitable progress.
And cheer up, Miss Fitz, think of the additional Fire-Sale reductions when T=Maxx springs back.
Fire sales. Funny how there were always incendiary attacks during the run-up to Christmas
The depressing thing is that if this blitz had happened in a predominatly Protestant town, the equicovation we’ve seen would have been replaced with ‘ah but’ and ‘nonetheless, while we are denied are rights’ etc.
As it is, the defenders of this action merely seem aggrieved at the ethnicity of the town targeted.
‘I’m not saying it’s ok to bomb anywhere, but why didn’t they go to 25 miles down the road and burn spurcefield, maybe then some logic could bederived from it.’
Michael:
What ‘logic’ could have been derived from it if they had burned shops at Sprucefield instead?
I don’t think ‘burn shops in Prod areas’ counts as logic, do you?
NCR-
The thing is, the SDLP will continue to work for the people of Newry, regardless of what idiots like this try to do to derail attempts to encourage investment and job creation.
The ‘SDLP: A Greater Newry & Mourne’ has a core set of goals, consistent with what the SDLP has been fighting for since the days of the civil rights movement. In the 1970s and 1980s, the party’s activists dodged the provo bullets and bombs in Newry to work at bringing a better future for the people of the area- they will continue to dodge the bullets and bombs of the provos’ bastard offspring nowadays to advance that work, regardless of whether these idiots burn down places of employment and attempt to wreck all efforts the SDLP makes at promoting the area. Every firebomb or bullet through the post in Newry merely doubles the commitment of local activists to bring about a better and more stable future for all the people of Newry, South Down and South Armagh.
Seems that everytime the dissidents score a hit it ‘bounces’ the shinners a little further along the path to being a ‘normal party
It amused me to listen to some of the people rushing not so much to condemn the act of bombing of the Newry stores but pointing out how it cost jobs, did not help the peace process, and how the perpetrators had so little support.
When I stopped smoking after forty years I never felt that I had the right to condemn those who smoked-my own involvement meant I had forfeited that right.
Those who have over the years engaged in terrorism should be the last people to condemn anyone. The hypocrisy of Sinn Fein knows no bounds.
Thankfully this most recent expression of the darker side of Republican political and cultural attitudes did not cause multiple deaths like PIRA did with its sectarian attacks at Kingsmills,Oxford Street,Shankill Chip Shop,la Mon et al.
T.Ruth
Wee Jeffery
“Newry Loyal certainly fits the stereotype of a modern day loyalist – sectarian, illiterate”
lol, Jeffery, please expand how you can determine in 1 post i am sectarian and illiterate ???
ps before you answer i ask to to be sure you *really* know what illiterate means.
“Pholisophy?
Christ, it’s getting worse-even the intelligentsia of the SDLP can’t spell.
Did someone burn down all the schools in Newry as well?”
That poster made a typo and u attack him too ?!?!, wee man, it really looks as if you have no valid point to make and are just attacking posters on spellings (ps have u nvr heard of internet slang you noob ??)
wee idiot more like
Yes Harpo, I’m afraid that is logic, albeit a twisted logic. I’m just trying to see it from the perspective of the idiots that thought it would be good to go around setting shops on fire in an overwhelmingly nationalist city. That was my point, not that i support the burning of shops in a predominatly ‘proddy’ area.
The thing is, the SDLP will continue to work for the people of Newry, regardless of what idiots like this try to do to derail attempts to encourage investment and job creation.
I fully agree El Mat’. A point well made. This is, afterall, what the SDLP is known for (unlike the self-serving actions of some other parties…)
According to the BBC, this has been claimed by the Real IRA. Do they have secret codewords and so on, or could anybody claim an action for the Real IRA?