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BEL09MEM_Lynch_Mural_Whiterock_3938Further to GAA pundit Joe Brolly’s comments that it is “no one else’s business” what GAA clubs call themselves.

The context was the naming of the GAA club in Dungiven, Co Derry after Kevin Lynch, INLA hunger striker. Lynch was a native of the area and played hurling, as well as scouting for bombs, and, said Brolly, “we’re very proud of him”.

This about an INLA hunger striker who was jailed for knee-capping people, and whose organisation – which regarded itself as more hard-core than the IRA – was responsible for the murder of hundreds of innocent people. Among the awful crimes of the INLA was the bombing of a disco in Ballykelly, in Brolly’s own native Derry, which killed 11 off-duty soldiers and six civilians, and the ambush of a Christian service in Darkley, Co Armagh which killed three worshippers.

Eamon Delaney: Brolly’s offensive outburst only highlights huge gulf that remains in North (Independent.ie)

Joe Brolly: I get up on my feet for God Save The Queen (Belfast Telegraph)

Pic of mural in West Belfast via CAIN