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Date Posted: Friday, July 13, 3:33:28
Author: IRSCNA
Subject: Dermot McShane: Fallen Comrade of the IRSM

Fallen Comrade of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement

Dermot McShane
Murdered on 13 July 1996

Dermot "Tonto" McShane, a former member of the Irish Republican
Socialist Party and the Irish National Liberation Army, was crushed
by a British military vehicle during a night of protests in Derry in
support of Catholic residents of Portadown's Garvaghy Road who had
been beaten off their street to force an Orange Order parade through
during Drumcree.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary and British Army fired more than 6,000
plastic bullets at the protestors in Derry. He was standing behind a
board protecting himself from the onslaught when a British soldier
drove a vehicle at the board and crushed him beneath it.

On 28 May 2002, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of
his widow, Teresa, who had sued the British Ministry of Defence, the
British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and the former Chief
Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary for negligence and breach
of statutory duty.

A memorial to McShane and two other comrades was unveiled in the
Bogside area of Derry on 13 July 2003.

He died as he lived: a Republican Socialist. Remember him with honour
and pride.

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