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July 26, 2003, 10:14 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/103683p-93834c.html
IRA logo on Web tees off Ulster
By CELESTE KATZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
IRA logo, referring to killing of cops in '90s.
A T-shirt showing a rifle-toting man and the phrase "Sniper at Work" that is being hawked on a new Sinn Fein Web site has drawn fire in British-controlled Northern Island.
The logo is a reference to road signs that appeared in South Armagh, an area of Northern Ireland controlled by the Irish Republican Army at the height of the 30-year conflict over British rule.
Snipers killed 12 police officers in the area in the 1990s.
The shirts, which sell for about $17, are available through a Sinn Fein Internet link.
Denouncing the sale of the shirts as "disgusting, provocative and ill-befitting of a so-called political party," Senior Ulster Unionist David McNarry said he complained to police about the "seditious" items for sale.
"I am calling, for the sake of common decency and out of respect for the victims of terrorism, for the Sinn Fein Web site to be removed," he said.
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams brushed off the complaints as "silly-season nonsense" - and thanked the Unionists for publicizing the Web site.
Victims of IRA violence assailed the goods as grossly insensitive and incongruous with the advancement of a fragile peace process.
"You can't have peace on one hand and glorify violence on the other," Iona Meyer, chairwoman of the RUC Widows Association, told the Irish News.
The IRA was responsible for nearly 1,800 deaths, more than 600 of those civilians.
The Rev. Sean McManus, founder of the Washington-based Irish National Caucus, said he considered the shirts "a mistake."
Paul Johnston, British consul for Northern Ireland, said through a spokeswoman: "I think anyone with compassion in their hearts would recognize the gross insensitivity and offense that these images will cause to widows and children."
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If any of you insensitive brute's wish to see this logo, there is a picture at the link above.:neener:
IRA logo on Web tees off Ulster
By CELESTE KATZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
IRA logo, referring to killing of cops in '90s.
A T-shirt showing a rifle-toting man and the phrase "Sniper at Work" that is being hawked on a new Sinn Fein Web site has drawn fire in British-controlled Northern Island.
The logo is a reference to road signs that appeared in South Armagh, an area of Northern Ireland controlled by the Irish Republican Army at the height of the 30-year conflict over British rule.
Snipers killed 12 police officers in the area in the 1990s.
The shirts, which sell for about $17, are available through a Sinn Fein Internet link.
Denouncing the sale of the shirts as "disgusting, provocative and ill-befitting of a so-called political party," Senior Ulster Unionist David McNarry said he complained to police about the "seditious" items for sale.
"I am calling, for the sake of common decency and out of respect for the victims of terrorism, for the Sinn Fein Web site to be removed," he said.
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams brushed off the complaints as "silly-season nonsense" - and thanked the Unionists for publicizing the Web site.
Victims of IRA violence assailed the goods as grossly insensitive and incongruous with the advancement of a fragile peace process.
"You can't have peace on one hand and glorify violence on the other," Iona Meyer, chairwoman of the RUC Widows Association, told the Irish News.
The IRA was responsible for nearly 1,800 deaths, more than 600 of those civilians.
The Rev. Sean McManus, founder of the Washington-based Irish National Caucus, said he considered the shirts "a mistake."
Paul Johnston, British consul for Northern Ireland, said through a spokeswoman: "I think anyone with compassion in their hearts would recognize the gross insensitivity and offense that these images will cause to widows and children."
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If any of you insensitive brute's wish to see this logo, there is a picture at the link above.:neener: