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Above: Mrs. Eileen Fox, Mrs. Nan Sharkey and Kevin Ludlow
laying a wreath at the memorial to their late brother Seamus in the lane where
he was found murdered 25 years before.
Over 200 people gathered for this moving ceremony hosted
by the Ludlow family. People came from Dundalk, Dublin, Belfast, Derry, Cavan and
from throughout the border counties area to share with the Ludlow family a
few moments in memory of the man who was murdered at this spot near the
border.
The Ludlow family deeply appreciated the attendance of
good friends and neighbours from both sides of the border: Mountpleasant,
Ravensdale, Faughart, Dromintee, Jonesborough and elsewhere.
Also present were relatives of the late Jack Rooney and
Hugh Watters who were murdered by a no-warning Loyalist bomb in Dundalk on
19 December 1975; by the family of Patrick Mowhan, who was similarly
murdered by a Loyalist bomb in Castleblaney, County Monaghan. Present also
were members of Justice for the Forgotten, the group that represents
most of the victims' relatives and survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan
bombings.
The Ludlow family was also delighted to have with them the
family of the late Aidan McAnespie, who was murdered by British forces at
Aughnacloy as he walked peacefully across the border to attend a Gaelic
football match. Also present was a son of the late Maura Drumm, the Vice
President of Sinn Fein, who was murdered in her Mater Hospital bed by
Loyalists in 1976. Mrs. Drumm was actually born just a short distance away
from the Ludlow home, though she spent much of her life in Belfast.
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