Vigil held after Lurgan bomb

Published Saturday, 21 August 2010
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The father of two children caught up in a bomb attack in Lurgan last week says they have been left badly traumatised.

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Frankie Maguire's daughters, aged two and twelve, were with another young girl in the Killmaine area last week when the device exploded.

They were on the other side of the road and escaped serious injury.

"The wee one has actually talked more about the bomb", Mr Maguire told UTV.

"She gets up in the morning and says daddy there was a big, a big bomb and I had to run".

"The older girl, during the day she is okay, but at night when she goes to bed and has time to think about it, she has asked her mummy to get into bed beside her", he added.

Mr Maguire was speaking on Saturday as he attended a vigil in the area following the attack.

Residents and clergymen took part in the cross-community prayer vigil.

Reverend Geoff Wilson from the Shankill Parish in Lurgan said people were calling for an end to violence.

"It is very important for us as church leaders to stand together at times like this and to make a statement not only to our own community but to the wider community that we don't want violence, we want peace in out town and in our community", he said.

Saturday's vigil called for the end of the dissident campaign of violence.

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Sue in portadown wrote (641 days ago):
JJ they do want violence just not on thier children . It dosen't really matter about anyone else's chldren. This is an occasion when they reaped what they sowed. What mindset do they have that they think its alright to make bombs to kill someone else as long as it is none of them
JJ in derry wrote (642 days ago):
This is so refreshing to see. The people of this province DO NOT want violence. It got us nowhere for the last 40 years, and i cannot understand how people think it will get us somewhere today. Their thinking is illogical and is simply a blinded obsession. The few dont decide the future for us, just by the use of bombs and guns, it is the many through talking and living together. Although that may sound unrealistic, the path to sustainable peace is always going to be harder than pressing the button for a bomb to explode.
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