Former Mayor of Derry and Strabane Councillor Brian Tierney
DUP MP Sammy Wilson can be heard shouting ‘shame’ and ‘they were protecting the people of Northern Ireland from republicans’ supported by the DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson as Derry’s MP called on the Parachute Regiment to apologise for their actions 50 years ago this week.
Said Cllr Brian Tierney: “The murder of 14 unarmed civil rights protestors in Derry on Bloody Sunday forever changed our city.
“The pain that was inflicted by the Parachute Regiment that day, and the efforts to blacken the names of the victims that followed, lives with us all even now.
“It is outrageous that while Derry’s MP Colum Eastwood was raising this in the House of Commons today, during the 50th anniversary week, that DUP MPs heckled, shouted ‘shame’ and defended the Parachute Regiment.
The world knows what the Parachute Regiment did on the streets of Derry in 1972.
SDLP Leader @ColumEastwood raised the murder of 14 civil rights marchers on Bloody Sunday in the House of Commons and called for a full apology from the regiment responsible pic.twitter.com/jjlaO4yIjJ
— Social Democratic and Labour Party (@SDLPlive) January 26, 2022
“I don’t expect much in the way of respect from Sammy Wilson but his actions, endorsed by the DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson from the same bench, are low even by their standards.
“Jeffrey Donaldson should explain himself and explain why his circus of MPs felt it appropriate to denigrate the people of our city at such a difficult time.
“The people of Derry have faced down bigger bullies than the DUP front bench before and we’ll continue to demonstrate the dignity that they so obviously lack.”
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