2 March 2000 Edition
Sectarian shooting in Antrim
It now transpires that the attempted killing of a Catholic man near the Stiles estate in Antrim Town on Tuesday evening, 29 February, is the latest in a long line of sectarian attacks on Catholics.
The man, who is in his 30s, was cycling near the estate at 7pm on Tuesday, 29 February, when the loyalist gunmen, driving a red Vauxhall Astra, rammed him, knocked him off his bike and chased him before firing at him with a shotgun. The man suffered a broken shoulder and broken arm as a result of being rammed by the car, but he was not hit by gunfire.
Sinn Féin's South Antrim representative Martin Meehan told An Phoblacht that at a time when all the focus is on silent IRA guns, loyalist guns are being ignored. This is the latest in a long line of loyalist attacks and it is only a matter of time before a nationalist is killed,'' he warned
Meanwhile in Dungannon, County Tyrone, four cars owned by Cathgolic priests were burned out on Wednesday, 1 March, in a sectarian attack on St Patrick's Parochial House, which also resulted in the evacuation of two houses.
The man, who is in his 30s, was cycling near the estate at 7pm on Tuesday, 29 February, when the loyalist gunmen, driving a red Vauxhall Astra, rammed him, knocked him off his bike and chased him before firing at him with a shotgun. The man suffered a broken shoulder and broken arm as a result of being rammed by the car, but he was not hit by gunfire.
Sinn Féin's South Antrim representative Martin Meehan told An Phoblacht that at a time when all the focus is on silent IRA guns, loyalist guns are being ignored. This is the latest in a long line of loyalist attacks and it is only a matter of time before a nationalist is killed,'' he warned
Meanwhile in Dungannon, County Tyrone, four cars owned by Cathgolic priests were burned out on Wednesday, 1 March, in a sectarian attack on St Patrick's Parochial House, which also resulted in the evacuation of two houses.