A survivor of the UVF’s bombing of Dublin in 1974 has mentioned unionists who criticise republicans for honouring IRA members however pay tribute to loyalist killers are responsible of double requirements.
Loyalists introduced the Shankill Street to a standstill on Saturday for a parade in honour of UVF killer Brian Robinson. 1000's gathered within the Belfast unionist heartland for the annual Brian Robinson march.
The UVF gunman was shot lifeless by undercover troopers on the Crumlin Street in September 1989, minutes after murdering Catholic Paddy McKenna on the Ardoyne outlets.
The paramilitary group honours him on the primary weekend of September yearly with an enormous parade organised by its B Firm unit.
However Edward O’Neill, who was simply 5 years outdated when a UVF bomb on Dublin’s Parnell Avenue killed his father and unborn sister and left him with life-long accidents, mentioned Robinson was a “nasty little thug who like many met their maker by the hands of the SAS”.
Nobody has ever been convicted over the 4 no-warning bombs in Dublin and Monaghan on Might 17, 1974 which claimed 35 lives, together with two unborn infants.
Mr O’Neill, who just lately underwent his sixty fourth operation for his accidents, mentioned: “Any loyalist or unionist politician or commentator that was just lately raging on social media concerning the disgraceful scenes at Feile in Belfast and the ‘Up the Ra’ singing who stays quiet concerning the abhorrent scenes on the Shankill Street honouring a sectarian killer like Brian Robinson ought to dangle their heads in disgrace.
"They're precisely just like the republicans that they declare to despise whereas attempting to keep up some twisted ethical superiority over them. They're precisely the identical as them. No distinction.”
He added: “The reported 1000's of bystanders that clapped and cheered this disgusting show needs to be ashamed of themselves. I very a lot concern that folks on each side have not discovered any classes from the previous.”