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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