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| DUP plans SAS event at Stormont | DUP plans SAS event at Stormont |
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| The DUP has said it plans to apply to reserve the Long Gallery at Stormont for an event to celebrate the role of the SAS during the Troubles. | The DUP has said it plans to apply to reserve the Long Gallery at Stormont for an event to celebrate the role of the SAS during the Troubles. |
| It comes days after it emerged Sinn Fein's Jennifer McCann planned an event to celebrate the life of IRA bomber Mairead Farrell in the same venue. | It comes days after it emerged Sinn Fein's Jennifer McCann planned an event to celebrate the life of IRA bomber Mairead Farrell in the same venue. |
| Sinn Fein's plan was angrily opposed by both the DUP and Ulster Unionists. | Sinn Fein's plan was angrily opposed by both the DUP and Ulster Unionists. |
| Assembly member Jeffrey Donaldson is making the DUP application. He said Sinn Fein's plan should not go ahead. | Assembly member Jeffrey Donaldson is making the DUP application. He said Sinn Fein's plan should not go ahead. |
| "I believe we should celebrate the lives of role models but who in their right mind could view a terrorist who was prepared to kill innocent men, women and children as a role model? | "I believe we should celebrate the lives of role models but who in their right mind could view a terrorist who was prepared to kill innocent men, women and children as a role model? |
| "That is not the image we want to portray to our children as we build a peaceful and prosperous Northern Ireland," Mr Donaldson said. | "That is not the image we want to portray to our children as we build a peaceful and prosperous Northern Ireland," Mr Donaldson said. |
| "However, it is right and proper that we should celebrate and commemorate our armed forces who stood against terrorists such as Farrell." | "However, it is right and proper that we should celebrate and commemorate our armed forces who stood against terrorists such as Farrell." |
| Gibraltar | |
| Mairead Farrell was shot dead in Gibraltar in 1988 along with two other IRA members by the SAS. | |
| Keys to a car found in her handbag led to the discovery in Spain of five packages of Semtex explosive. | |
| Farrell had previously been jailed between 1976 and 1986 for the bombing of the Conway Hotel in Dunmurry, outside Belfast. | |
| Sinn Fein assembly member Jennifer McCann said she planned the event commemorating her at Stormont to mark international women's day. | |
| "I'm not asking anyone to agree with what I am doing, but I am saying they should respect it. | |
| "Stormont is a shared space and that's the way it has to be seen," she said. |