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03rd Aug 2017

‘Love Ulster’ group reportedly planning another march in Dublin next month

A similar event ended in riots in 2006.

Alan Loughnane

You probably remember what happened at the last one…

A group of loyalist are reportedly planning a march on the streets of Dublin next month.

The group ‘Love Ulster’, are planning to march in Dublin in September in support of ‘The Victims March For Justice’, according to the Irish News.

The ‘Victims March for Justice’ has been organised to put pressure on the Irish government to release documents relating to the Kingsmill inquest.

The march is being organised by Willie Frazer, the man who organised the ‘Love Ulster’ rally in Dublin in 2006 which had to be abandoned after riots broke out.

The inquest is about a group of textile factory workers who were ambushed as they travelled along the Whitecross to Bessbrook road in rural south Armagh in 1976. They were reported murdered in reprisal for earlier loyalist killings.

A man stopped the bus and asked the men their religion, he was wearing camouflage and had an English accent, the men onboard thought he was a soldier. The one catholic of the group was told to go and the rest were lined up against the side of the bus and shot.

The 10 who died were John Bryans, Robert Chambers, Reginald Chapman, Walter Chapman, Robert Freeburn, Joseph Lemmon, John McConville, James McWhirter, Robert Samuel Walker and Kenneth Worton.

According to the Irish News, Frazer met with Gardaí this week in relation to the event.

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