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Fri 01 Jan 2009Ógra SF criticised for ambush site visit
AN SDLP councillor has pulled out of an Ógra Shinn Féin weekend conference in Newcastle, Co Down, because he said it glorified “mass murder”.
Unionist politicians have also condemned a conference event described as a “visit to site of Warrenpoint ambush”. This is a visit to Narrow Water near Warrenpoint where, in 1979, two IRA bombs killed 18 British soldiers.
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