False martyrs - IRA suicide 6

IRA man Martin Hurson was tried and convicted of involvement in three IRA landmine incidents, one at Cappagh in September and one at Galbally in November 1975 and a third at Reclain in February 1976 when several members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Ulster Defence Regiment narrowly escaped being killed. He received concurrent sentences of twenty, fifteen and five years for these convictions.

Hurson committed suicide by self-imposed starvation in 1981 in the Maze Prison.

Lord Laird has said it is outrageous that the Government could support anything that "glorified" the act of suicide.

Official records state the hunger strikers' cause of death was suicide and it is therefore "immoral to celebrate their deaths".

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