SINN FEIN’S Martin McGuinness and other leading members of the party are today paying tribute to the late Eddie Fullerton, shot dead by a loyalist gang in Buncrana 22 years ago today.
The Deputy First Minister in the North tweeted a tribute – mentioning a poem he penned two years ago in the Donegal County Councillor’s honour.
Cllr Fullerton was shot dead by the UFF at his home in Cockhill Park, Buncrana, Co Donegal on May 25 1991.
Below is Mr McGuinness’s poem – named after the Dam named in Eddie’s honour.
Fullerton’s Dam
Purple heathered hillsides clothe the peaty bogs leaching streams of water swimming pools for frogs.
Down along the glenside a rich brown vein does run to meet and greet another beneath the rising sun.
Here below twin bridges the Crana springs to life amid kamikaze midges where father found his wife.
At castle gates salmo waits out in the Swilly blue for destiny and a leaper’s spate to bring her home so true.
A creator with an earthy face decreed his plan would make this valley the perfect place to gather raindrops in a lake.
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