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“Non mi faccio intimidire” dice la fidanzata di Kieran Doherty

I WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED

Fiancee of Real IRA murder victim sends message to masked arsonists

Kieran Doherty memorial @ Free Derry WallThe fiancee of Real IRA murder victim Kieran Doherty has said she will not be intimidated by his killers and will continue her campaign to expose them.
Mairéad Miller was speaking at a protest at the Free Derry Wall on Saturday after a memorial to Kieran was torched by armed masked men with petrols bombs on Friday night.

Kieran was shot in the head in February this year by the Real IRA who claimed he was dealing in drugs. Ms Millar, who was due to walk down the aisle with the man she loved yesterday, insisted he was not a drug dealer. She believes Kieran was used as a scapegoat. “If he was a drug dealer,” she said, “a big if, he was only following orders from their organisation. He was shot to cover a more higher ranking member himself. It was a cover up. He was a scapegoat.”

Ms Millar, who turned 30 yesterday, said the attack on the memorial was expected. “I now expect the childish ways they act,” she said. “God help Ireland if they are counting on these people to save it.
“It just shows they are the criminals that I said they were yesterday. It proves a point, so it didn’t bother me. Now I know I have gotten to them. I must have if they did that.”

She held her silent protest, surrounded by relatives, as hardline republicans from the 32CSM staged a white line picket just yards away in protest at the conditions for dissident republicans in Maghaberry prison. Ms Millar said she would not be intimidated by anyone.
“They know that Kieran was shot to cover for a higher member, not for drugs, and I am going to prove them wrong.”

“Now I know that I have got to them, I’m going to keep on getting at them. This Wall was here all through the Troubles and was not touched. It is the people’s wall and yet the people that attacked it call themselves republicans. They are trying to deny my freedom of speech. It just shows that they are nothing more than a criminal gang.”

Maired Miller & CeadachShe also said she believes her fiancee’s killers were known by him. “They were supposed to be Kieran’s friends. Some of the people here at this protest were on our wedding list and would have been our guests,” she said.

Mairéad said the past few days had been a “nightmare”, but that she had to be strong for the couple’s two-and a-half-year-old daughter, Ceadach. Speaking yesterday, she said: “I am emotional this morning thinking what I should have been doing. It would have been a beautiful day for our wedding. Everything was organised. We were to take our photos at Termonbacca, instead I am going to his grave.

“I am trying to hide everything. But Ceadach is great, everything she does reminds me of Kieran.”

Speaking of those that burned the memorial, she added: “They have made me a stronger person. I know Kieran was not a drug dealer. I lived with him for 14 years I know what he was like. Kieran has given me the strength to go on. I know in my heart he was no drug dealer.

“He would not have put himself in that position when he was getting married and with the baby.”

Police are investigating the incident at the Free Derry Wall on Friday night and are treating the attack as arson.

They have asked anyone with information to contact them.

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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