TODAY: (24th May 1991)
Óglach Eddie Fullerton.
Eddie Fullerton was murdered on May 24th 1991, by loyalist assassins
who sledge hammered their way into the Fullerton home as the family
slept in their beds. They shot him six times in front of his wife Dinah,
and made good their escape across the border.
Edward "Eddie"
Fullerton (1935 – 25 May 1991) was a Sinn Féin councillor from County
Donegal, Ireland. He was assassinated at his Buncrana home in May 1991
by members of the Ulster Defence Association.
The eldest of
John and Mary Fullerton's 20 children, Eddie Fullerton emigrated to
Scotland at the age of 18, and then moved to England. He became involved
in Irish Republicanism in Birmingham, where he also met and married his
wife Diana (with whom he would have 6 children). They returned to
Ulster in 1975. He was elected to Donegal County Council for Sinn Féin
in 1979, and held his seat until his assassination at age 56.
At two o'clock in the morning, on the 25 May 1991, Cllr. Fullerton and
his wife were woken by the sound of their front door being knocked in
with a sledgehammer. Loyalist paramilitaries shot Eddie six times from
the stairs as he left the bedroom to investigate the noise of the
burglary.
A month later, a documentary on British television
revealed that a police file from RUC intelligence containing Fullerton's
photograph and details was found in the possession of the UDA in Derry.
The weapon used to kill him was recovered two years later. The
perpetrators were never found. The Fullerton family has long campaigned
for an independent public inquiry into the events surrounding his death.
This was the third assassination of an elected representative in the Free State since the signing of the Treaty in 1921.
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