IRA scumbag dies !
Veteran republican Martin Meehan has died, aged 62.
It is believed he suffered a heart attack at home on Saturday morning.
Mr Meehan, a major figure in the IRA in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast during the Troubles, was a Sinn Fein councillor in Antrim.
Sinn Fein assembly member Gerry Kelly said he was "shocked and saddened" by the death, and said his thoughts were with Mr Meehan's family.
"From a friendship and comradeship point of view, Martin sort of embodied what republicanism was all about," Mr Kelly said.
"He gave his whole life to serve both his ideals in republicanism and also the people."
Mr Meehan had unsuccessfully stood in the South Antrim constituency in assembly and Westminster elections for Sinn Fein in recent years.
He was seen as a strong supporter of the Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness leadership of the party.
Mr Meehan joined the IRA in 1966 and sided with the Provisional IRA faction when it split four years later.
In the weeks that followed the introduction of internment without trial in Northern Ireland in 1971, Mr Meehan was reputed to be the most wanted IRA man in Belfast.
He was eventually detained in Crumlin Road prison.
He escaped with two other IRA men in 1971 by hiding in a manhole for six and a half hours.
Mr Meehan fled to Dundalk in the Irish Republic and was arrested south of the border in 1972 with seven colleagues after a major four-hour gun battle over the border with a British Army platoon.
He returned to Northern Ireland and spent three years in prison.
The north Belfast republican had other jail terms before he was eventually released in January 1994.
NWN: Hip, hip hooray !
12 comments:
Gerry Kelly should receive the justice of the rope !
He even looks like the devil.
Who said NWN never has any good news ?
To be really honest though......as a christian , it is up to God.
Meehan did not live by Jesus' ways.
His punishment is eternal death.
eternal death .........yeah that sounds OK.
oh dear, how sad, never mind !
I hope the ambulance was late.
good news !
We just a group in Ulster but your post has really made our night.
Best wishes to you NWN from Ulster.
I was a young squaddie in Belfast in the early seventies. Meeham was part of a two man sniper squad that was creating quite a bit of havoc for our mob (the other was called 'Dutch'Doherty).
Anyway we captured them eventually and after some gentle interrogation they aquired the nickname the 'Canaries' (because they sang so much).
Happy days indeed, what goes round will always come round.
TomTomB......so you showed them around Castlereagh int centre then ?
Good lad !
What a great guy he had Brit Army patrols sh*ing themselves when they went out on foot patrol. The scum used to like to use heavy tactics on the local community regardless of what there politics were one reason why guys like Meehan got so much support. This page should be called NorthWest National Socialist.
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