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orangeman

Awful news.


Car bomb officer Peadar Heffron's leg amputated 

Constable Peadar Heffron was driving to work when the bomb exploded
A police officer injured in a dissident republican car bomb attack last week has had his right leg amputated.

Constable Peadar Heffron, 33, had surgery on Tuesday and remains critical, but stable.

He was injured when a bomb exploded under his car on the Milltown Road near Randalstown in County Antrim at about 0630 GMT on Friday.

The officer is an Irish language specialist for the PSNI and captain of the PSNI GAA team.

Mr Heffron has been in the police for 10 years and recently married. He is related to a senior Sinn Fein member.

He had been on his way to work at Woodbourne police station in west Belfast.

It is believed Constable Heffron had driven about a mile from his home when the bomb exploded and he was found breathing and conscious but bleeding heavily.

Dissident republicans have been blamed for the attack, but police have not yet said which grouping they believe were behind it.

Dissident republicans have been responsible for a spate of bomb attacks across Northern Ireland in the last year.

In October, a dissident group planted a bomb under a policeman's car in east Belfast.

His partner suffered minor injuries in the attack.


rossie mad

if this is the case this is very sad.

I cant understand the logic of these so called freedom fighters.
What actual progress do they actually think their actions are acheiving only the ruining of innocent lives like this mans.

This man will surely be devasted as now he may have to curtail his work commitments in a job he obviuosly loved and will now not be able to play a sport he loved.

My heart really goes out to this poor lad as im sure is the case with alot on this board.

ziggysego

Sad news indeed, but very lucky to be alive.
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stpauls

Quote from: ziggysego on January 13, 2010, 02:48:14 PM
Sad news indeed, but very lucky to be alive.

lucky indeed but not out of the woods yet!! he is still critical but stable, but there is a lot of surgery to come, and if i know Peadar, he won't give up the fight!!

nifan

Such a disgraceful waste, someone who obviously wanted to help his community and went about it in a positive way.
I hope he can pull through this time, and i hope someone gives willie mccrea a box for playing his pathetic little game with the name of a man injured trying to do something positive which is more than mccrea will ever do. Hopefully Peader will be strong enough to tell him himself on some occasion.

ardmhachaabu

I have heard that this was only the latest of many attacks on Peadar.  Those responsible for it should be ashamed of themselves, his death would not have furthered the cause in any way shape or form as he is a far better Irishman than all of those who planned and executed this cowardly attack on him
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takeyourownpath

where ever these people got the idea that they are the "real" ira is beyond me. they are nothing but cowards and it's a disgrace that they can do this to their own countrymen.

best wishes to Peadar.

Newbridge Exile

Am keeping Peader in my Prayers at the minute in this difficult time, the mentality of the cowards who carried out this attack both infuriates and saddens me ;are they so naive/ gullible/ stupid / bigoted to believe that what they did will actually achieve anything?

Ulick

Quote from: nifan on January 13, 2010, 06:41:51 PM
Such a disgraceful waste, someone who obviously wanted to help his community and went about it in a positive way.
I hope he can pull through this time, and i hope someone gives willie mccrea a box for playing his pathetic little game with the name of a man injured trying to do something positive which is more than mccrea will ever do. Hopefully Peader will be strong enough to tell him himself on some occasion.

What did McCrea do?

boojangles

Quote from: Ulick on January 14, 2010, 02:56:19 PM
Quote from: nifan on January 13, 2010, 06:41:51 PM
Such a disgraceful waste, someone who obviously wanted to help his community and went about it in a positive way.
I hope he can pull through this time, and i hope someone gives willie mccrea a box for playing his pathetic little game with the name of a man injured trying to do something positive which is more than mccrea will ever do. Hopefully Peader will be strong enough to tell him himself on some occasion.

What did McCrea do?

McCrea got up in the Assembly today to condemn the attack but throughout did not refer to the victim's given name Peadar, instead referring to him as 'Peter'. 

Ulick

Quote from: boojangles on January 14, 2010, 03:18:04 PM
Quote from: Ulick on January 14, 2010, 02:56:19 PM
Quote from: nifan on January 13, 2010, 06:41:51 PM
Such a disgraceful waste, someone who obviously wanted to help his community and went about it in a positive way.
I hope he can pull through this time, and i hope someone gives willie mccrea a box for playing his pathetic little game with the name of a man injured trying to do something positive which is more than mccrea will ever do. Hopefully Peader will be strong enough to tell him himself on some occasion.

What did McCrea do?

McCrea got up in the Assembly today to condemn the attack but throughout did not refer to the victim's given name Peadar, instead referring to him as 'Peter'.

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p***k.  >:(

delboy

Quote from: boojangles on January 14, 2010, 03:18:04 PM
Quote from: Ulick on January 14, 2010, 02:56:19 PM
Quote from: nifan on January 13, 2010, 06:41:51 PM
Such a disgraceful waste, someone who obviously wanted to help his community and went about it in a positive way.
I hope he can pull through this time, and i hope someone gives willie mccrea a box for playing his pathetic little game with the name of a man injured trying to do something positive which is more than mccrea will ever do. Hopefully Peader will be strong enough to tell him himself on some occasion.



What did McCrea do?

McCrea got up in the Assembly today to condemn the attack but throughout did not refer to the victim's given name Peadar, instead referring to him as 'Peter'.

Thats a pretty shitty thing to do  >:( its one thing calling bairbre de bruin Barbara Brown or Mrs Brown as a part of the banter across the chamber but the above shows a complete lack of respect.

aontroim

I was watching that and thought the same thing about McCrea at first but then when he said it again it sounded like he was saying Pe-dar in an attempt to pronounce it - prob my imagination though!

orangeman

Is this what we're back to ??



Pipe bomb found at Antrim community centre 
 
A pipe bomb has been found at an Antrim community centre where a GAA team was training, the town's mayor Adrian Watson has claimed.
A security alert was declared after the suspicious device was found outside the community centre on the Stiles estate.

Players from the local GAA club, who were in the centre playing football, were escorted from the premises.

Army technical officers have been called to the scene and the area has been cordoned off


ziggysego

Quote from: aontroim on January 14, 2010, 05:21:43 PM
I was watching that and thought the same thing about McCrea at first but then when he said it again it sounded like he was saying Pe-dar in an attempt to pronounce it - prob my imagination though!

I put my earphones on and watched it again via the BBC website. He definitely said Peter  >:(
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