The Newlodge Milkman (Killed after IRA Vol Bobby Sands Dies)

Eric Guiney Aged 45, A Milkman for The Newlodge Area from the Protestant Rathcoole Estate had his milk float attacked at the junction of the New Lodge Road and the Antrim Road. His son Desmond aged 14 who was also in the milk float died of his injuries, his father died just 1 day after his son was buried.
14 year old Desmond Guiney was the first official victim related to the violence of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) Hunger Strikes at the Maze Prison (Long Kesh) just outside Lisburn after the IRA Hunger Striker Volunteer Bobby Sands MP died. The milk float he was in was attacked at the top of The New Lodge Road (The Newlodge) at its junction with the Antrim Road in North Belfast.

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[TheBhoycey]

sad history this is when the troubles of the past hits home bobby sands would not have wanted this no way very sad

[orangetillidie]

I joke at all the combattants that get killed during the troubles but it is stuff like this that really hits home . I remember when this happened . God bless ALL the innocents that lost their lives during this black time in our history .

[MrAskurmum]

shamefull



[MrAskurmum]

bobby sands died but there was no need for wat they done to that family makes u feel ashamed to be irish

[poxrider]

@songsmith31a What a relief. Never before engaged in as pointless an exchange as this one.

[songsmith31a]

@poxrider...

the last line in my previous post was in error as I had completed my response

under "4". This concludes my posts on the subject.

.

[songsmith31a]

@poxrider...

1. Oh....

2 I do not find it odd that any reasonable person should feel revulsion at  savagery that seems to feed upon itself and violates the innocent.

4. A society that devotes its way to God surely understands that against Him comes the Devil and his works. It is for His followers (the "bulk" of the Irish?) to prize love above all and be helped to cast out evil. They have my best wishes to that end. That's it!

Goodbye.

4. It is hardly

[poxrider]

@songsmith31a

1. I don't.

2. I don't believe you.

3. "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

4. "If there is a God, he gave Ireland to the Devil to keep him busy! =/=

I wish the bulk of an admired enduring people every happiness for the future..they deserve it.

[songsmith31a]

@poxrider...

you get my reply via email from YouTube - same thing. I have no personal

reason for my dismay over the ongoing (murder a young copper/hoard

bomb-making equipment) activities in an otherwise civilised 21st century part of

the world that defy the hand of fellowship and human progress. But

Nietzsche said "With stupidity the gods themselves labour in vain". I wish the

bulk of an admired enduring people every happiness for the future..they deserve

it.

Enough. Happy Easter!

[poxrider]

@songsmith31a  If you want me to know you have replied, then hover over my comment and click on Reply, thereby sending me an email, goddit?

Also if you want me to understand what you are saying, please read my comment again.

Maybe I'm being harsh, but what are you talking about? I asked you a straight question ie were your derogatory comments about Ireland motivated by some Irish related incident / family experience, perhaps you served in N. Ireland or knew someone killed there?

[songsmith31a]

@poxrider...

I can't say that where I'm "coming from" influences my view albeit that I recall my

late mother who died in the early 90s aged 92 mentioning that her own mother's

people were "from Kinsale" (never verified). Centuries of Norman/British

influence seemed then to be followed by a form of religious "do this" that

imposed control on thought and movement. Religion and control encouraging

fear and violence - bereft of "love one another"- are still the enemy there, I'm

thinking.

[poxrider]

@songsmith31a Yeh, I would have replied earlier smith if you had actually clicked on reply yourself. Of course you didn't address the point of my post...what motivates you to come out with these statements about Ireland " If there is a God, he gave Ireland to the Devil to keep him busy!" - very dramatic indeed, plainly motivated in some way.

Your mention of the W of I makes no sense, such wars are always 'messy', no Queensbury rules apply.

We all must move on, and I believe we have.