Ireland: Sectarian Murder Bid Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source - "Sean MacCoinnigh" ANOTHER SECTARIAN MUDER BID IN ANTRIM Mo Chairde: A 39-year-old Catholic workman was shot in the chest and legs this morning as he arrived for work at a building sight in the Loyalist Cairnhill Walk area of Carrickfergus, where more than the 'marble stones there are black as ink.' In a bold burst of initiative, the RUC by-passed its usual 24-to-48-hour period of wonderment and observed that the murder bid had "all the hallmarks of a Loyalist shooting." A spokesman at the Orange country hospital hastened to assure everyone the multiple gunshot wounds were "not life-threatening," possibly a new record for a jiffy diagnosis involving bullet wounds to the chest. >From Dublin, where capital crimes committed only 70 miles away on the same contiguous small land mass must be viewed as "foreign affairs," the Free State Minister of said Foreign Affairs, David Andrews, alertly noted the attempted homicide "appears to be part of a pattern of intimidation of the nationalist community in the South Antrim area by dissident loyalist groups." The neat thing about press statements like that to Orangies is that the UDA/UFF/UVF/LVF/etc. can have open season on Catholic workmen secure in the knowledge that Free State politicians will blame the bullets and firebombs on amorphous "dissident loyalist groups." Decommissioning, anyone? Black Jack ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-05.12.99-21:23:42-26103