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>Fallen Comrade of the Irish Republican Socialist >Movement > >Danny Loughran >Staff Officer - Irish National Liberation Army >Assassinated on 6 April 1975 > >Danny Loughran, a 20-year-old expert marksman and >former soldier in >the Irish Army (the military of the 26 Counties' >government), was >assassinated by the Official Irish Republican Army >close to his home >in the Divis Flats area of West Belfast during a >period when the IRSM >came under counter-revolutionary attack from the OIRA. >He was a >member of the OIRA before joining the INLA in December >1974. > >He was given a paramilitary funeral with a volley of >shots fired over >his coffin. He was a staff officer in the INLA, >although 'PLA' >(People's Liberation Army, an early name used by the >INLA) was carved >on his gravestone in West Belfast's Milltown Cemetery. > >At his funeral, an Irish Republican Socialist Party >spokesperson said, >"there are not enough bullets in Cyprus Street or in >Gardiner Place >[Official Sinn Fein offices in Belfast and Dublin] to >kill the dream >for which he died." > >A memorial to Loughran and other comrades was >dedicated in the Lower >Falls area of West Belfast on 10 April 2003. > >He died as he lived: a Republican Socialist. Remember >him with honour >and pride. > ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.irsp.ie/Background/fallen/loughran.htm >">http://www.irsp.ie/Background/fallen/loughran.htm</a>

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