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Police Warning After
2019 Headstones Erected At Three Unmarked Bomb Parts Picked Up

27th, Graves Of 1920 Bloody Sunday Victims By Child In Newry C

November Hthreeunmarkedgraves dozens others injured. about her dad and the time President & Founding
Fourteen were killed and
eadstones have been
“My aunt always spoke
unveiled at the last
It came hours after the
growing up when she had
Publisher
in an operation targeting
Bloody Sunday shootings at
her father. She always regret-
| of those killed in the 1920 killing of 14 men by the IRA lost a young brother and lost Paddy McCarthy
Editor
ted the fact that nothing had
Croke Park.
British agents.
EXAMINER commemorative stones in members of the victims’ fam- been done or said in his were picked up by a child in Newry, Associate Publisher
Grahame Curtis
Almost a century on,
The GAA organized the
The component parts of a bomb
memory.
Marc-Yves Tumin
ilies were present alongside
Glasnevin Cemetery on the
“It gives me a mark of clo-
police have said.
News Editor
A suspicious object found in the
IRISH 99th anniversary of the GAA president John Horan sure for my aunt that at long Violet Hill Avenue area on Sunday Arts & Entertainment Editor
David Carter
killings.
for the unveiling ceremony.
last her father’s sacrifice has
Liam Dineen, a relative of
Eight of the 14 people
been noted and appreciated.
killed by British soldiers at Mr O’Dowd, described the “So two years ago when led to a 24-hour security alert and a Brad Balfour
number of homes were evacuated.
the historic GAA ground in ceremony as poignant and the GAA approached me The alert ended on Monday after- Sales Director
Dublin were laid to rest in fitting. (about installing a head- noon. John O’Rourke
unmarked graves. His great-uncle is recalled stone), I said ‘of course, I’d be The PSNI said Army bomb dispos-
Since 2015 the Bloody heroically as having helped delighted’, I know that it al experts carried out a controlled Classified Advertising
John O’Rourke
Sunday Graves Project has others escape over a wall would be a tribute to my explosion on what are believed to
been working with the sur- before being shot himself. aunt as well that this was have been the component parts for Art Director
viving relatives of these vic- “We are very proud as a being done. an explosive device and a number of Heidi Gross Kelley
tims to see the graves family that his courage is rec- “It was very fitting and items were taken away for forensic Contributors
Joe Murphy, Joe Kavanagh, C.S.
marked. ognized,” he said. very appropriate.” C examination. O’Brien, Mike Fitzpatrick, Seamus
On Thursday morning Superintendent Jane Humphries Kelleher, Bert Randolph Sugar, John
headstones were unveiled said: “We believe these to be compo- Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
for Jerome O’Leary, 10, the nent parts of an explosive device. Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
youngest of the victims, as When such items are left in a public Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
well as for laborer Patrick area they can be innocently handled Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
Daly, Jim McKeon
O’Dowd, 57, and former sol- by anyone and on this occasion it was
dier Michael Feery, 40. picked up by a child. Contributing Photographers
On November 21 1920, “I appreciate the disruption this Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
Wong
British soldiers opened fire in has caused, however, when it comes
Croke Park during a football to keeping people safe we do not take Circulation
John Philip, Manager
match between Dublin and chances. I can only reinforce to North East - Paul Hamrock
Tipperary. everyone that if you see anything sus- West Coast - Jim Clement
picious please do not lift it or Historian
O’Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP approach it.” C Events Consultant
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