Unionist politicians have expressed their anger and shock at an Easter Rising advert which appeared in a Donegal newspaper – which also had the names and faces of ten Provisional IRA members.
They’re furious that the advert was funded by a number of state bodies in the Republic of Ireland, and claimed that while they had the right to commemorate the Easter Rising, there was no justification for funding the memory of modern day ‘criminals’ and ‘terrorists’.
The advert titled ‘Republican roll of honour’ included rising figures along with 10 PIRA figures who died between 1973 and 1991 – Jim McGinn, Seamus Harvey, Gerard McGlynn, Peter McElear, Peter Cannon, Antione Mac, Kieran Fleming, Reamonn Mac Lochlainn, Philip McFadden and Damien Brolly.
The picture above shows a memorial erected in Drumkeen, which included the names and faces of the ten men that died on hunger strike in 1981, which also drew criticisms from some quarters.
Gerard McGlynn and Seamus Harvey were killed in 1973, when the bomb they were transporting detonated prematurely which killed both men.
DUP MLA Thomas Buchanan said no consideration had been given to the offensiveness in ‘glorifying’ men like Gerard McGlynn and Seamus Harvey who were on there way to take life when they were killed.
TUV South Down Assembly candidate Henry Reilly told The Newsletter, “Dublin needs to explain why they believe that it is acceptable to use public money to celebrate those who went out with murder in their hearts but were mercifully blown up by their own bomb.”
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