Word: mairead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, witnesses in Gibraltar have said the three victims -- Mairead Farrell, 31; Daniel McCann, 30; and Sean Savage, 23 -- were unarmed, on foot and shot without warning by plainclothes gunmen, who immediately disappeared in police cars after the shootings. The accounts received some unexpected support last week from Dr. Alan Watson, a University of Glasgow pathologist who testified for the British government. He told the hearing that his work had been impeded by British officials, and described the shootings as a "frenzied attack...
...MARRIED. Mairead Corrigan, 37, who as co-founder of the Peace People in Northern Ireland shared in the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize; and Jack Maguire, 37, auto mechanic and widower of the bride's sister, Anne Maguire, who inspired the movement after three of her children were killed by a car involved in a shootout between British troops and an Irish Republican Army guerrilla; she for the first time, he for the second; in Rome...
...sense, Anne Maguire's tragedy was not in vain. Betty Williams, who had witnessed the accident, and Anne's sister, Mairead Corrigan, began a door-to-door campaign, seeking signatures for a petition condemning the continued violence between Ulster's Roman Catholics and Protestants. The movement, known as the Peace People, won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for rallying public outrage against the senseless sectarian killings...