LOYALIST assassination squads killed their third victim in a week on 15 October when they dead 6o-vear-old woman in the Markets area of The woman, Mary McKay, was asleep in her house when two gunmen kicked in her front door at 3 in the morning.
upstairs tne bedroom and SuO her times. Mary McKay had association any organisation. She was killed for one reason - because she was a Catholic.
Her murder followed that of Bobby Ewing on Bobby, who lived in the 'mixed' Protestant/Catholic area of the Oldpark district in Belfast was just getting ready to nine-year-old son to a boy scout meeting when he delayed for a few minutes watch funeral on television of another Loyalist assassination councillor Larry nody. Fired As Bobby was watching the TV, two gunmen ran through his front •DOr and straight to the living room where Bobby was sitting with his wife.
gunmen repeatedly, hitting Bobby twice in the head and killing him.
Larry Kennedy was shot on 8 October while sitting in a social club in the Shamrock social club the Ardoyne Although he was a cillor, and a supporter of the H Block campaign by prisoners, another random shot the Loyalist killers. Catholic Church Derry on 11 October.
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of coun- by Cullough, the Irish it is likely that Larry victim of The Ulster Freedom Fighter have admitted responsibility for all three killings. They have also boasted of bombing a Catholic Limavady, County The UFF is a cover name used paramilitary Ulster Defence Association, sections of it. There are feuding sections of the UDA and it is not always clear whether the official leadership of the UDA sanction assassinations their members have carried out.
But the UDA leadership has been responsible for the murder Independence Party politician John Tirley and IRSP Daly, Ronnie and Noel Little. UDA members were also involved in the attempted assassination of and Michael La UDA gundead at the weekend when a hijacked taxi The UDA continues to be a organisation.
Repeated demands from nationalist politicians in the North of Ireland for its banning have been by successive On Friday 16 October the Irish National Liberation Army replied to the sectarian terror campaion Billy Mca senior member of in the British press the UDA Provisional Republican movement has so far resisted such retaliation. The latest ediThe family of Loyalist murder victim Bobby Ewing — a picture that didn't appear tion Republican 'Loyalism, understood newspaper, can argues, analysed and the shrinking foothold of British rule in Ireland defeated through poltical policy and firm action directed against the main enemy, the Brits.'