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| Parties clash on Stormont events | |
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| The Long Gallery at Stormont is at the centre of a row over plans by the DUP and Sinn Fein to hold rival commemorations there. | |
| The DUP wants to remember the role of the SAS during the Troubles while Sinn Fein wants to celebrate the life of IRA bomber Mairead Farrell. | |
| She was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar 20 years ago. | |
| 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 | Gibraltar |
| Mairead Farrell was shot dead in Gibraltar in 1988 along with two other IRA members by the SAS. | 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. | 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. | 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. | Sinn Fein assembly member Jennifer McCann said she planned the event commemorating her at Stormont to mark international women's day. |
| "Stormont is a shared space and that's the way it has to be seen," she said. | "Stormont is a shared space and that's the way it has to be seen," she said. |
| "The real thing about this and the honest thing about this is that Jeffrey Donaldson and unionists are saying that we have the audacity to pay tribute to our dead and they're trying to tell us when and where we can do it . | |
| "In effect they're creating a hierarchy of victims." |