(05 Jan 2017, 12:29 pm)Andreos1 wrote Sad times.Was there once sizable support for the IRA in this area about 20 years ago, due to the fact Martin McGartland* was known to be in the Area...
Although staff have said there's no specific threat, I'm not sure it is any more reassuring to see armed coppers mooching about.
If someone of a terrorist mentallity is so determined to carry something out (inevitably blowing themselves up in the process), they're gonna do it if there's an armed copper, an un-armed one or someone in a garish corporate uniform.
There's that there paradise for them to get to. They don't get stuck with a Streetlite heading there!
It seemed an every day occurance back then. Some sort of coded warning and there was chaos.
I remember a bomb scare in Durham in the early-mid 90's, Millburngate was sealed off...
As for the Metro, My folks and Me, got caught in traffic on the Western Bypass after a bomb scare at the MetroCentre
For those who dont know, Martin McGartland was an Informer for Northern Irelands Special Branch who infiltrated the IRA, when he was found out, instead of being tortured and taking a beating, he jumped out a third floor window in a block of Belfast flats...
McGartland was relocated, first to Newcastle's East End or Wallsend and then the Blyth/Whitley Bay area, he was shot multiple times outside his Whitley Bay house
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