Cancer Charity Shouldn't Be Abused by IRA Event
09 August 2011
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister MLA:
“I am deeply disturbed that posters have appeared in the Pomeroy area advertising the annual Seamus Woods memorial tug o’ war competition.
“Woods was an IRA terrorist killed when mortars he was preparing for an attack on Pomeroy RUC station prematurely exploded. What makes the event all the more shocking is that the logo of Marie Curie appears on the poster along with the claim that all proceeds from the event will be going to the cancer charity.
“Marie Curie is a very worthy charity which does a great deal of good work. It should not be abused by this event in an attempt to bring a veneer of respectability to a celebration of terror.
“Marie Curie seeks to ease the suffering of those who are in their final days on earth. Seamus Woods sought to bring death and suffering.
“I will be writing to Marie Curie to ascertain if they gave their permission for their logo to be employed in this fashion, which I suspect they did not.”
