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19/07/2001
SDLP COUNCILLOR’S HOUSE TARGETED AGAIN
PAINT bombers have targeted an SDLP councillor’s home for the second time in eight days.
Margaret Walsh, a nationalist councillor who lives in Barrack Street on the Lower Falls Road, had paint bombs thrown at the windows of her home on Wednesday night.
Mrs Walsh, her husband and four of their five children were sitting in the living room when the gang hurled various missiles at the house. Three men were seen nearby in a car moments before the attack, with two men thought to have perpetrated the attack before being driven away by a third person.
Mrs Walsh’s house was targeted on Tuesday 10 July in a similar paint bomb attack.
The SDLP councillor has said she believed loyalists were responsible for the attacks and vowed that she will not be driven out of her home.
Speaking to a Belfast newspaper on Thursday morning she said: “This is not going to achieve anything. I am not moving anywhere, I have lived in this area all my life. These thugs will not force me out of my home. There is no doubt loyalists did this and it appears they have been watching the house.”
She added: “We have just got over the attack last week and we had the paint removed – now it is all over the house and windows again.” (AMcE)
Margaret Walsh, a nationalist councillor who lives in Barrack Street on the Lower Falls Road, had paint bombs thrown at the windows of her home on Wednesday night.
Mrs Walsh, her husband and four of their five children were sitting in the living room when the gang hurled various missiles at the house. Three men were seen nearby in a car moments before the attack, with two men thought to have perpetrated the attack before being driven away by a third person.
Mrs Walsh’s house was targeted on Tuesday 10 July in a similar paint bomb attack.
The SDLP councillor has said she believed loyalists were responsible for the attacks and vowed that she will not be driven out of her home.
Speaking to a Belfast newspaper on Thursday morning she said: “This is not going to achieve anything. I am not moving anywhere, I have lived in this area all my life. These thugs will not force me out of my home. There is no doubt loyalists did this and it appears they have been watching the house.”
She added: “We have just got over the attack last week and we had the paint removed – now it is all over the house and windows again.” (AMcE)
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