Member's statement: Royal Black Institution: Memorial Service
Member's statement by Lord Elliott on .
- MLA
- Lord Elliott
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 23 April 2024
- Type
- Member's statement
- Business
- Members' Statements
- Heading
- Royal Black Institution: Memorial Service
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4485035
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Text
Joined by other Members, I attended a service on Sunday in Killyman church to remember eight members of the Royal Black Institution in that small area who were murdered by terrorists during the Troubles. Those members — Frederick Greeves, Cormac McCabe, Samuel Clarke, David Graham, Robert Bloomer, George Gibson, Stanley Hazelton and David Wilson — were all murdered by terrorists in cold blood. Cormac McCabe, for example, was a local schoolteacher who was kidnapped and brutally murdered by terrorists. I am pleased that the Royal Black Institution held that service to remember those people and put their names on a bannerette that will always be close to them. They will remember them, future generations will remember them, and it puts down the facts of what happened to those people: that they were brutally murdered. Those people were part of the community. They worked in their civilian life — just, as I said, like Cormac McCabe, who was a schoolteacher — doing things for the community and educating our people for the future, and that was how they were treated. It is absolutely despicable. I commend and congratulate Killyman Royal Black district for doing that and for remembering those who were close to their hearts and their families.
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