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Date Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2:11:53
Author: IRSCNA
Subject: Seamus Grew/Roddy Carroll: Fallen Comrades of the IRSM

Fallen Comrades of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement

Seamus Grew
Member - Irish Republican Socialist Party
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 12 December 1982

Seamus Grew, age 31, was killed along with Roddy Carroll when the car
they were in was fired on by members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
Special Branch's E4 surveillance unit at a checkpoint in Armagh City.

Both men were unarmed and were killed instantly. The RUC had been led
to believe by an informer that their real target, INLA chief of staff
Dominic McGlinchey, would be in the car as it crossed the border from
an INLA meeting in County Monaghan in the 26 Counties.

RUC Constable John Robinson was put on trial for his role in the
murders but was found not guilty. He claimed the RUC officers thought
they had been shot at. When challenged with evidence that Grew and
Carroll were unarmed, Robinson claimed instead that the two men had
crashed through a roadblock and the RUC officers were fearful of
being run down by the car.

The judge said he was not concerned with an RUC cover up, only
whether Robinson was guilty or not. Not surprisingly, he ruled that
Robinson "honestly believed he was fired at and his life was in
danger."

In 1979, Grew had been shot in the throat, captured, and sentenced to
four years in prison for INLA activities. He was released after
serving two years, and survived an assassination attempt by
pro-British loyalist gunmen two months before he was killed.

His brother Dessie was a Provisional Irish Republican Army member
killed by the British Army's Special Air Service at Loughgall, County
Armagh in 1990.

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Roderick "Roddy" Carroll
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 12 December 1982

Roddy Carroll, age 21, was killed along with Seamus Grew when their
car was fired on by the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch's E4
surveillance unit at a checkpoint in Armagh City. The British
occupation forces alleged he was the INLA's top gunman in County
Armagh.

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They died as they lived: as Republican Socialists. Remember them with
honour and pride.

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