Writing's on the Wall for IRA After Murder

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● “IRA are murderin scum” are the sort of graffiti words you might expect to Freedom of information scope to see on the gable wall of a loyalist housing estate, not the republican be extended heartland of South Armagh.

But this message greeted more than a thousand people who gathered in The Earth in 2007 the village of Cullyhanna yesterday morning to mourn Paul Quinn, a 21- year-old jobbing lorry driver who, according to his family and most of those present, was savagely murdered last Saturday by the Provisional IRA. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2740870.ece (1 of 7)26/10/2007 11:17:53 Writing’s on the wall for IRA after murder - Times Online

Little more than a decade ago Cullyhanna was officially the Army’s most dangerous place in Northern Ireland, the skill and panache of its local IRA unit earning it the soubriquet “the Cullyhanna Gun Club”.

But if the signs on the walls are to be believed — and they were always a reliable barometer of public sentiment during the Troubles — then the The UN's summary of the health of times are truly changing in “bandit country”. the globe

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with iron bars in a farm shed across the border, in Co Monaghan. The ● Time To priest commended Mr Quinn’s parents, Stephen and Breige, for saying Diana and Dodi Sail that they wanted no retaliation. All the news, video and pictures ● New from the Royal Courts of Justice South Armagh is a place apart, where the rule has always been horizons “Whatever you say, say nothing”. But, for once, people were more than willing to talk. In an area as republican as Cullyhanna, with five Sinn Fein politicians, it was telling that not a single party representative was Shell Wildlife Photographer of present. QUICKLINKS the Year Nobody from the party has spoken to the family since Mr Quinn was Su Doku murdered six days ago. Now Interactive

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political decision and decide not to give the Unionists a reason to kick Career/Jobs Sinn Fein out of government.” Forget burnout, boreout is the Jim McAllister, a former Sinn Fein representative for the area, said that new office disease Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader and MP for West Belfast, was wrong Are you irritable when you return from work? to have alleged that Mr Quinn’s death was a result of his involvement in Drained of emotion? You could be suffering from diesel smuggling across the border. boreout “He needs to come down here and talk to the people and ask us what’s Podcasts life like. It’s not a nice place to live any more. You have these little Hitlers strutting around. The young are afraid to go out at night for fear of giving See this year's winners The Bugle podcast - The Empire a crooked look to the wrong person. Strikes Back Slide Show The exclusive satirical podcast that leaves no “Paul would not stand for it and that’s why they killed him. I heard the political hot potato unbuttered story Sinn Fein are putting around . . . Paul was seen siphoning a bit of petrol from his dad’s tractor for his car.” Driving Money Central Dodge Grand Caravan Clarkson went on holiday to Ottawa, hired a They lost the war and now they've lost their support. dodgy Dodge and 'hosed the Garden of Eden Fantastic! down with 600 gallons of adrenaline'

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