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Anger over MoD Fury at IRA

‘glorification’
CLAIMS that the IRA were
“revolutionaries” not “war

parade refusal
mongers” by deputy first
minister Martin McGuinness
have sparked outrage.
Mr McGuinness made the
comment during an Easter
Rising commemoration
speech at the Loup in Co
Londonderry yesterday.
He said: “The IRA brought
the British government to the
negotiating table, but the IRA
were not war mongers.”
BY REBECCA BLACK Senior Ulster Unionist
Danny Kennedy said the
r.black@newsletter.co.uk comments were “an insult
to people who had lost loved
Unionists have accused the ones due to IRA violence”.
Ministry of Defence of “cowardice” See page 4
after it turned down an invitation to
stage a Royal Irish and Irish Guards
homecoming parade in Belfast.
Belfast City Council had issued an
Murder ‘feud
invite to the Royal Irish and Irish
Guards to stage a parade on a short link’ probed
route from City Hall to St Anne’s A MURDER in Kilkeel on
Cathedral, where a thanksgiving Saturday may be down to a
service to the men and women of the feud between rival groups
regiments has been long arranged to of eastern Europeans, police
take place on Sunday, May 22. have said.
However, the MoD has officially A 36-year-old Lithuanian
turned down the Belfast invite and man sustained fatal injuries
is thought to have also refused when he was shot in the
chest.
an invitation from the Royal Three men have been
British Legion to stage an event in arrested over the murder and
Enniskillen. Last night the MoD are being quizzed at Antrim
had not responded to News Letter police station.
questions on the Enniskillen invite. See page 6
In an earlier statement it said
that its soldiers are “geographically
dislocated”.
On Saturday defence secretary DUP rejects
Liam Fox said in a statement that a
homecoming parade in Belfast “is not
the best way to proceed”.
Iris reports
DUP leader Peter Robinson THE DUP has rejected reports
slammed the decision as “outrageous” that former MP Iris Robinson
and spoke to secretary of state Owen will accompany her husband,
the first minister, to the Royal
Paterson on Saturday evening about wedding this week.
the proposed parade. The pair will be Mrs Robinson is included
meeting on the issue this week. on the final guest list –
A spokesman for the secretary of released over the weekend
state told the News Letter last night – for Prince William and
that Mr Paterson would “happily meet Catherine Middleton’s much
Mr Robinson” but refused to take a anticipated nuptials, but
position on the Belfast parade. the DUP insisted last night

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Emma-Rose Leeming, five, from Armoy, Co Antrim, enjoying the sunshine over the Easter weekend that she would not be in
He said he had nothing more to add attendance.
to the statement by Mr Fox. PICTURE: Steven McAuley/Kevin McAuley Photography Multimedia
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