The “UVF” on the storage units would be painted over, leaving only the memorial to the 36th (Ulster) Division. The Ballybeen RHC memorial mural on the side would remain until the building was redeveloped and both murals were replaced by a memorial garden.
Craignish Crescent, Davarr Avenue.
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“Ballybeen Youth C. Company” Red Hand Commando, with the names of the six counties and the slogan “Lamh Dearg Abu” (a corruption of “Lámh Dhearg Abú”, “red hand to victory”). Next to another mural mentioning RHC Youth in Morven Park.
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“Where so ever, how so ever or whenever we are called upon to make our exit, we shall do so as proud men.” (Another UVF mural in east Belfast has “as free men”.) A hooded gunman from the Red Hand Commando stands at the ready. The first of the four crests is the (rare, possibly restricted to the Morven Park murals) “RHC Youth”; then PAF, UVF, and YCV.
Morven Park, Ballybeen
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Union jack, with bleeding red hand above it, on Rank Road the Inchmarnock Drive side of Durness Walk, Ballybeen.
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The UDA emblem sits on top of a Northern Ireland separated from the Republic. Quis separabit!
Drumadoon Drive, Ballybeen
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The closed hand of the UFF (in red, white, and blue), the open hand of the UDA. Banff Walk, Ballybeen.
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The Ulster Banner is on the left; the flag on the right is of the UFF.
Banff Walk, Ballybeen
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“It is not for glory we defend Ulster but for Freedom we Fight, which these good men have give their lives.” The men in question are “Vltr”s Hugh McVeigh, Andy Craig, and Brian (Barney) O’Raw from the UFF’s East Belfast brigade 3rd (Ballybeen) battalion (McVeigh and Craig are described as being from G company in the plaque on the right).
Colonel McVeigh was killed in the feud with the UVF in April 1975; Andy Craig was shot by the IRA in September of that year; O’Raw was killed by the UVF in 1997.
Drumadoon Drive, Ballybeen
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Two [East Belfast brigade] 3rd battalion hooded gunmen with raised assault rifles flank the emblem of the UFF in Banff Walk, Ballybeen.
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“15th August 1998. The Omagh Bomb. To honour and remembered 31 people murdered and hundreds injured from three nations, by a dissident republican terrorist car bomb.”
The bomb was the work of the Real IRA and came three months after the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
The plaque – “presented by the Omagh Support And Self Help Group to honour the European Day Of Remembrance For Victims Of Terrorism, 11th March 2005, and at our wish unveiled by Dr. W.W. Foster” – is in Spanish (as well as English and Irish) because two of the victims were Spanish holiday-makers.
The memorials shown were temporary, being replaced in 2008 (for the tenth anniversary) by a reflecting pool, mirrors, and engraved stones, one of which repeated the wording included here (BBC-NI).
Drumragh Avenue, Omagh
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