Debate contribution: Explosive Device at Sinn Féin Newry Office
Debate contribution by Mr Jon Burrows on .
- MLA
- Mr Jon Burrows
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 6 October 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Matters of the Day
- Heading
- Explosive Device at Sinn Féin Newry Office
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5156209
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On behalf of the Ulster Unionist Party, I condemn unequivocally the terrible attack on Liz Kimmins and Dáire Hughes. It was a despicable attack, and I agree entirely that it is an attack not only on the entire community but, in fact, on our democratic system. I am a great believer that an attack on any one of us here is an attack on all of us and on what we are trying to do to represent people across Northern Ireland. I give my full solidarity to Liz and Dáire, to their constituency workers and, indeed, to their families, who will be frightened. I do hope that the Police Service of Northern Ireland, supported by our security services, particularly MI5, which supports the work that the PSNI does in dismantling those who commit terrorism, is successful in bringing the people who did this to justice. I salute the police and the ammunition technical officers, and I hope that there are forensic opportunities from the device. We as a party, of course, know very well the price that terrorism brings to innocent people. Edgar Graham and Robert Bradford were wickedly murdered by terrorists, and, thankfully, we see far fewer of those kinds of despicable attacks. Those attacks were wrong then, they are wrong today, and they will be wrong in the future. Unequivocally, I stand with Ms Kimmins and Dáire Hughes, as does the entire Ulster Unionist Party.
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