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11/10/2007
Gun Attack Cranks-Up Tension On UDA Weapons
A gun attack in County Antrim – where no one was injured – has underlined the growing controversy over loyalist disarmament.
A local family was asleep when three shots were fired through a window of their house at Drumahoe Drive, in the Sunnylands estate, Carrickfergus.
With no sign of the decommissioning demanding by Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie, who gave the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) a now expired deadline to begin decommissioning, the issue has again been graphically underlined.
Wednesday night's attack is being linked to a feud between the mainstream UDA and a breakaway faction in south-east Antrim.
It is understood Ms Ritchie is due to make a statement on the future of funding worth over £1m for projects in loyalist areas that has been linked to the process of disarmament taking place.
Carrick Mayor David Hilditch said that police were carrying out searches in the area and commented: "Fortunately no-one has been hurt here tonight. It could have been very much different.
"It is of grave concern that this incident which we would be linking to the loyalist feud in Carrickfergus, the UDA feud, that someone hasn't been seriously hurt tonight."
(BMcC)
A local family was asleep when three shots were fired through a window of their house at Drumahoe Drive, in the Sunnylands estate, Carrickfergus.
With no sign of the decommissioning demanding by Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie, who gave the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) a now expired deadline to begin decommissioning, the issue has again been graphically underlined.
Wednesday night's attack is being linked to a feud between the mainstream UDA and a breakaway faction in south-east Antrim.
It is understood Ms Ritchie is due to make a statement on the future of funding worth over £1m for projects in loyalist areas that has been linked to the process of disarmament taking place.
Carrick Mayor David Hilditch said that police were carrying out searches in the area and commented: "Fortunately no-one has been hurt here tonight. It could have been very much different.
"It is of grave concern that this incident which we would be linking to the loyalist feud in Carrickfergus, the UDA feud, that someone hasn't been seriously hurt tonight."
(BMcC)
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