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Just a few days after losing his world championship last summer, Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was reviewing his 25 years in the crossroads town of Clones on the Fermanagh-Monaghan border. He is a Catholic married to a Protestant. Their home is near enough to the line to be supplied its telephone from Northern Ireland and its electricity from the Irish Republic. "It's a bloody joke, isn't it?" he said. Coming from where he does, a literal battleground, McGuigan would seem a good man through whom to try to understand fighting...
...Vote for me and give Thatcher a kick in the teeth. Vote for me and vote for the prisoners." That message, blared across the bucolic landscape of Northern Ireland's Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency, proved to be a winner in an important by-election last week. At stake was the British Parliament seat vacant since the death of Bobby Sands, the first of ten Irish nationalists who have starved themselves to death in the Maze Prison near Belfast. The victor was Owen Carron, 28, Sands' former campaign manager, whose triumph over Protestant Kenneth Maginnis...
...voters of Fermanagh and South Tyrone will not be represented in the House of Commons any more by Carron than they were by Sands, whose status as a prisoner prevented him from taking his seat. Carron does not plan to attend Parliament, or even draw his salary. Instead he will concentrate his activities in Ulster. Proclaimed the jubilant Carron after his victory: "The hunger strike will go on until the British government gives in to the demands of the prisoners...
...Whitelaw announced the government's other response: the intent to plug a legal loophole that had allowed Sands, a convicted felon, to stand for Parliament. Westminster wanted no repetition of the I.R.A.'s ploy when yet another by-election is called in Northern Ireland's turbulent Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency...
Late one evening last week, Ulster Police Constable Ernest Johnston, 34, arrived home from his dangerous job patrolling the border with the Irish Republic. As he approached the garage of his isolated bungalow in County Fermanagh, two gunmen from the Irish Republican Army's Provisional wing opened fire at close range in the darkness. Johnston fell, mortally wounded, and the gunmen fled, presumably across the border only a few hundred yards away...