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Date Posted: Sat, Dec 11 2010, 9:52:52 PST
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: 12-15 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

Colm McNutt, age 18, 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.

http://www.irsp.ie/Background/fallen/mcnutt.html

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Seamus Grew
Member - Irish Republican Socialist Party
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 12 December 1982

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

Both men were unarmed and 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 County Monaghan in the 26 Counties.

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."

In 1979, Grew had been 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
Irish Republican Army member killed by the British Army's Special Air
Service at Loughgall, County Armagh in 1990.

http://www.irsp.ie/Background/fallen/grew.html

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

Roddy Carroll, age 21, was killed along with Seamus Grew when their
car was fired on by the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch's E4
surveillance unit at a checkpoint in Armagh City. The British occupation
forces alleged he was the INLA's top gunman in County Armagh.

http://www.irsp.ie/Background/fallen/carroll.html

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Ronnie Trainor
Member - Irish Republican Socialist Party
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 15 December 1975

Ronnie Trainor, age 17, died from injuries received when his home in
the Ballyoran Park area of Portadown, County Armagh was bombed by the
Ulster Volunteer Force, a pro-British death squad.

His mother Dorothy was murdered by loyalists earlier in 1975. His
brother Thomas, an INLA staff officer, was murdered by the UVF
three years later.

http://www.irsp.ie/Background/fallen/rtrainor.html

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

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