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Date Posted: Sunday, December 11, 18:53:36
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: 12 December: Fallen Comrades of the IRSM

Fallen Comrades of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement

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Colm McNutt
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Killed in Action on 12 December 1977

Aged 18, Colm McNutt was killed in a Derry car park on the edge of the
Bogside near Butcher's Gate by an undercover unit of the British
Army's Special Air Service. Circumstances suggested he was victim of a
"shoot to kill" policy.

A memorial to McNutt and two other comrades was unveiled in the
Bogside area of Derry on 13 July 2003.

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.irsm.org/fallen/mcnutt/">http://www.irsm.org/fallen/mcnutt/</a>

Article about the memorial unveiling:
<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.teachnafailte.org/bogside.htm">http://www.teachnafailte.org/bogside.htm</a>

*******

Seamus Grew
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 12 December 1982

Aged 31, Seamus Grew was killed along with Roddy Carroll when the car
they were in was fired on by members of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary's E4 anti-terrorist unit at a checkpoint in Armagh City.

Both men, who were unarmed, were killed instantly. The RUC had been
led to believe by an informer that their real target, INLA chief of
staff Dominic McGlinchey, would be in the car as it crossed the
border from an INLA meeting in Co. Monaghan in the 26 Counties.

In 1979, Grew was shot in the throat, captured, and sentenced to
four years for INLA activities. He was released after serving two
years and survived an assassination attempt by loyalist gunmen two
months before he was killed. His brother Dessie was a Provisional
IRA member killed by the British Army's Special Air Service at
Loughgall, Co. Armagh in 1990.

RUC Constable John Robinson was put on trial for his role in the
murders but was found not guilty. He claimed the RUC officers thought
they had been shot at. When challenged with evidence that Grew and
Carroll were unarmed, Robinson claimed instead that the two men had
crashed through a roadblock and the RUC officers were fearful of
being run down by the car.

The judge said he was not concerned with an RUC cover-up, only
whether Robinson was guilty or not. Not surprisingly, he ruled that
Robinson "honestly believed he was fired at and his life was in
danger."

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.irsm.org/fallen/grew/">http://www.irsm.org/fallen/grew/</a>

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Roddy Carroll
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 12 December 1982

Aged 21 and claimed by security forces as the INLA's top gunman in
Co. Armagh, Roddy Carroll was killed along with Seamus Grew when their
car was fired on by the Royal Ulster Constabulary's E4 anti-terrorist
unit at a checkpoint in Armagh City.

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.irsm.org/fallen/carroll/">http://www.irsm.org/fallen/carroll/</a>

*******

They died as they lived: as Republican Socialists. Remember them with
honour and pride.

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