Woman shot & killed in Derry being treated as a terrorist incident MOD WARNING IN OP

RobertKK · 19-04-2019 12:59am #1

Breaking news that shots were fired in Derry and a woman killed. All that is being said at the moment is it is being treated as a terrorist incident.

With the car bomb there not so long ago, let us all hope this is not going to become a common occurrence again.
Terrible for family and friends, and wider society.

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1119025698772017152

RIP Lyra McKee

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Thrashssacre · 19-04-2019 1:03am

RobertKK wrote: »

Breaking news that shots were fired in Derry and a woman killed. All that is being said at the moment is it is being treated as a terrorist incident.

With the car bomb there not so long ago, let us all hope this is not going to become a common occurrence again.
Terrible for family and friends, and wider society.

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1119025698772017152

Petrol bombs thrown too, Seams to be escalating in that area unfortunately.

19-04-2019 2:38am

Shocking story and the shooters caught on mobile phone footage. They were young fellas in trackie bottoms, probably not even 18.

Poor girl was a journalist standing next to the police vans.

19-04-2019 5:38am

"The victim was reported locally to have been a journalist and author who was covering the unrest taking place in the Creggan area of the city."

That is an absolutely awful loss of life.

listermint · 19-04-2019 5:41am

Awful thing to occur. Terrible for a young woman and her family

Perhaps this will put a plug in it.

punisher5112 · 19-04-2019 5:42am

Derry is the correct place and not Londonderry....??

listermint · 19-04-2019 5:44am

punisher5112 wrote: »

Derry is the correct place and not Londonderry....??

Don't start that stuff. Cheers.

Avatar MIA · 19-04-2019 6:13am

punisher5112 wrote: »

Derry is the correct place and not Londonderry....??

That's your takeaway?

Franz Von Peppercorn · 19-04-2019 6:19am

She was a journalist and might have been targeted. Hunt these fellas down and throw away the key.

listermint · 19-04-2019 6:20am

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

She was a journalist and might have been targeted. Hunt these fellas down and throw away the key.

Doubt it. I'd say it was more young lads shooting at landrovers.

Joe Don Dante · 19-04-2019 6:20am

punisher5112 wrote: »

Derry is the correct place and not Londonderry....??

Yawn....

arybvtcw0eolkf · 19-04-2019 6:40am

punisher5112 wrote: »

Derry is the correct place and not Londonderry....??

I'm as nationalist as anyone who'd claim to be nationalist, but I'd hope the country is beyond that knuckle dragging bullsh*t.

Moving along.

Poor girl, this is the first I'm hearing of this murder but from what I'm being told by friends up in the north of Ireland there is a strong undercurrent of unrest, a pretend peace.

RIP young lady.

The_Kew_Tour · 19-04-2019 6:51am

Awful news to wake up too.

One death too many

martinedwards · 19-04-2019 6:53am

Jeremy Cool Gill wrote: »

I'm as nationalist as anyone who'd claim to be nationalist, but I'd hope the country is beyond that knuckle dragging bullsh*t.

Sadly, far from it. I'm on the middle ground tending towards unionism and we've started calling it Lower Limivady to wind up the bigots.

As someone old enough to have been in Uni in Belfast through the bad times, we REALLY don't want this back again.

RIP young lady, and I really hope that when they are caught, the Good Friday agreement will not apply and they will go to jail for a very long time.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 19-04-2019 6:59am

martinedwards wrote: »

Sadly, far from it. I'm on the middle ground tending towards unionism and we've started calling it Lower Limivady to wind up the bigots..

Bigots are **** on both sides. I'd rather see us as one people, I really couldn't care less what side anyone claims to be. Just be nice to people and respect that other's have different views you.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 19-04-2019 7:22am

If paramilitaries were involved then they must have expected the victim to have been involved in the sale or distribution of drugs.

ChikiChiki · 19-04-2019 7:23am

listermint wrote: »

Don't start that stuff. Cheers.

I'm as nationalist as the next but plz piss off. Irrelevant in the context of this senseless murder.

punisher5112 · 19-04-2019 7:24am

Jaysus lads cool the jets I know it as Derry hence the question.

Shocking stuff what happened and rip to the young woman.

Odyssey 2005 · 19-04-2019 7:45am

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

If paramilitaries were involved then they must have expected the victim to have been involved in the sale or distribution of drugs.

What ?.

Samuel Vimes · 19-04-2019 7:45am

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

If paramilitaries were involved then they must have expected the victim to have been involved in the sale or distribution of drugs.

No
They are just scumbags
They had no excuse
No Justification
No right
They should be hunted down and locked away forever.

judeboy101 · 19-04-2019 7:47am

Journo standing with security forces , not wearing clothes to identify herself as a media despite in the middle of an armed conflict and the good old british security forces doing their old trick of bundling a wounded person into the back of a security vehicle only for them to die enroute, sounds familiar.

Odyssey 2005 · 19-04-2019 7:49am

judeboy101 wrote: »

Journo standing with security forces , not wearing clothes to identify herself as a media despite in the middle of an armed conflict and the good old british security forces doing their old trick of bundling a wounded person into the back of a security vehicle only for them to die enroute, sounds familiar.

Armed conflict ?. Where , ?

no.8 · 19-04-2019 7:49am

judeboy101 wrote:

Journo standing with security forces , not wearing clothes to identify herself as a media despite in the middle of an armed conflict and the good old british security forces doing their old trick of bundling a wounded person into the back of a security vehicle only for them to die enroute, sounds familiar.

Victim blaming much? Disgusting

Avatar MIA · 19-04-2019 7:55am

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

What ?.

He was being sarcastic.

Avatar MIA · 19-04-2019 7:55am

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Armed conflict ?. Where , ?

In the mind of a keyboard warrior.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 19-04-2019 7:58am

judeboy101 wrote: »

Journo standing with security forces , not wearing clothes to identify herself as a media despite in the middle of an armed conflict and the good old british security forces doing their old trick of bundling a wounded person into the back of a security vehicle only for them to die enroute, sounds familiar.

Here's an idea, aside from leaving the victim blaming out of it.

How about not fucking shooting people, simple!.

'Armed conflict', you mean some cowardly bastard murdering someone then skulking away into the night to hide out in his rat hole?.

19-04-2019 7:58am

judeboy101 wrote: »

Journo standing with security forces , not wearing clothes to identify herself as a media despite in the middle of an armed conflict and the good old british security forces doing their old trick of bundling a wounded person into the back of a security vehicle only for them to die enroute, sounds familiar.

Your take on what happened is so warped.

Search Leona O’Neill, journalist on Facebook. She was standing right beside her when it happened and called the ambulance. Quicker and safer to take the shot woman to hospital in the back of PSNI vehicle than have an ambulance enter the area.

RIP

Atoms for Peace · 19-04-2019 7:59am

Calling them terrorists is giving them too much credit, bunch of ignorent skangers with too much free time out to cause gratuitous violence.

McCrack · 19-04-2019 8:00am

"Ireland unfree shall never be at peace"

malinheader · 19-04-2019 8:02am

No government assembly in northern Ireland. The British government totally blinkerd by Brexit and the lrish government don't give a damn about northern Ireland. It's not looking good for the north. Hopefully I'm wrong.

19-04-2019 8:02am

Jeremy Cool Gill wrote: »

Here's an idea, aside from leaving the victim blaming out of it.

How about not fucking shooting people, simple!.

'Armed conflict', you mean some cowardly bastard murdering someone then skulking away into the night to hide out in his rat hole?.

The sad thing is Mak, the kids doing the rioting and shooting far from being born during the conflict. They’ve been raised by parents like judeboy who want there to always be conflict.

facehugger99 · 19-04-2019 8:04am

Jesus, you'd think the Shinnerbots would wait until later in the thread before spouting their ****e.

RIP

dudara · 19-04-2019 8:04am

RIP Lyra McKee. I had believed and hoped that our island had moved beyond this.

The Ceasefire Babies was what they called us. Those too young to remember the worst of the terror because we were either in nappies or just out of them when the Provisional IRA ceasefire was called. I was four, Jonny was three. We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils just never seemed to reach us.

judeboy101 · 19-04-2019 8:06am

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Your take on what happened is so warped.

Search Leona O’Neill, journalist on Facebook. She was standing right beside her when it happened and called the ambulance. Quicker and safer to take the shot woman to hospital in the back of PSNI vehicle than have an ambulance enter the area.

RIP

If you know the history of that particular area you'd know that the security forces don't have the best reputation when it comes to putting wounded civilians in the back of security vehicles.

Avatar MIA · 19-04-2019 8:07am

McCrack wrote: »

"Ireland unfree shall never be at peace"

I have been a supporter of a United Ireland since I could understand the concept of Ireland being partitioned.

I understood the armed conflict brought leading on from the brutal suppression of the just civil rights movement. I've watched keenly the UI polls and have argued in favour of a UI. I've argued against the economic drain thinking that the ROI taking on the costs of running NI would be onerous.

Most if not all of my friends or acquaintances could not fathom why I'd be in favour of a UI.

But, I've just had a road to Damascus conversion, I'm washing my hands of NI. I can't bring myself to say thanks Britain for taking them off our hands, but I don't wish to be associated with these people anymore. And I do understand it's only a minority. But, fuk them. They can stew in their own hatred.

A plague on both their houses.

WoollyRedHat · 19-04-2019 8:07am

I haven't been shocked in a long time, due to almost becoming desensitized to the daily news cycle and daily violence but this is shocking. I'm only a little bit younger than her, that's no age to die.

There's no rhyme or reason here, what a senseless loss of life, just trying to do her job and then this happens ..... RIP Lyra and condolences to her family.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 19-04-2019 8:09am

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

The sad thing is Mak, the kids doing the rioting and shooting far from being born during the conflict. They’ve been raised by parents like judeboy who want there to always be conflict.

Horrible isn't it?.

I've been a soldier 34 years, I've served on the border and even served on the Israeli border during the worst times in both Irish and Lebanese times and I still can not get my head around violence.

And these scum in their ski masks & hoodies skulking off into the dark night after a murder, these bastards also call themselves soldiers!.

Its disgusting. A disgusting start to the Easter holidays.

And just like all the other 3000 plus murders it will not do one single iota for Irish unity.

I'm disgusted.

Samuel Vimes · 19-04-2019 8:09am

judeboy101 wrote: »

Journo standing with security forces , not wearing clothes to identify herself as a media despite in the middle of an armed conflict and the good old british security forces doing their old trick of bundling a wounded person into the back of a security vehicle only for them to die enroute, sounds familiar.

Disgusting fcoking post
Shame on you

judeboy101 · 19-04-2019 8:10am

dudara wrote: »

RIP Lyra McKee. I had believed and hoped that our island had moved beyond this.

It's not "our" island though, is it? This happened in the UK, not fair to tarnish the people of our country for the actions of UK citizens and residents.

Avatar MIA · 19-04-2019 8:11am

judeboy101 wrote: »

It's not "our" island though, is it? This happened in the UK, not fair to tarnish the people of our country for the actions of UK citizens and residents.

Semantics? Stay classy Judeboy.

Erik Shun · 19-04-2019 8:12am

judeboy101 wrote: »

It's not "our" island though, is it? This happened in the UK, not fair to tarnish the people of our country for the actions of UK citizens and residents.

I'm quite sure the people who murdererd Lyra , do not identify as UK citizens

dudara · 19-04-2019 8:15am

judeboy101 wrote: »

It's not "our" island though, is it? This happened in the UK, not fair to tarnish the people of our country for the actions of UK citizens and residents.

Oh give over. It’s an island, divided into two countries, but still an island. We’re all in it together. Pointing to the North and saying “That’s the UK” is geopolitically correct, but way too simplistic.

WoollyRedHat · 19-04-2019 8:15am

judeboy101 wrote: »

It's not "our" island though, is it? This happened in the UK, not fair to tarnish the people of our country for the actions of UK citizens and residents.

It is our island, it always has been and always will be. The arguments about idea of nation and state are a entirely different matter but this thread isn't about any of above, it's about a young woman who has lost her life due to actions of thugs with no respect for sanctity of life. Who gives a **** if they identify as Irish or British in this situation.

judeboy101 · 19-04-2019 8:16am

Avatar MIA wrote: »

Semantics? Stay classy Judeboy.

No, just pointing out that its the mentality of "our island" that causes these things to happen. If people accepted that NI is in the UK, that there is no such a city as "Derry" , except in the green tinted glasses of wannabe provos, and leave the UK to sort out its own mess, maybe these things wouldn't happen.

judeboy101 · 19-04-2019 8:24am

dudara wrote: »

Oh give over. It’s an island, divided into two countries, but still an island. We’re all in it together. Pointing to the North and saying “That’s the UK” is geopolitically correct, but way too simplistic.

The people of the dominican republic don't say "our island" when talking about Hispaniola, neither do the Haitians. We have very little in common with the majority of people in that part of the UK and no amount of diddle-dee-i-begorrah will change that. Had a UK journo being standing with Syrian troops during an armed engagement with IsiL , not wearing media identification, would we even be having this conversation?

griffin100 · 19-04-2019 8:26am

McCrack wrote: »

"Ireland unfree shall never be at peace"

Little lad of the tricks,
Full well I know
That you have been in mischief:
Confess your fault truly.

I forgive you, child
Of the soft red mouth:
I will not condemn anyone
For a sin not understood.

Raise your comely head
Till I kiss your mouth:
If either of us is the better of that
I am the better of it.

There is a fragrance in your kiss
That I have not found yet
In the kisses of women
Or in the honey of their bodies.

Lad of the grey eyes,
That flush in thy cheek
Would be white with dread of me
Could you read my secrets.

He who has my secrets
Is not fit to touch you:
Is not that a pitiful thing,
Little lad of the tricks ?

judeboy101 · 19-04-2019 8:26am

Erik Shun wrote: »

I'm quite sure the people who murdererd Lyra , do not identify as UK citizens

They can think they are Polynesian for all I care, they are born in the UK, registered in the UK birth register and are by default, subjects of the queen.

spurious · 19-04-2019 8:27am

judeboy101 wrote: »

We have very little in common with the majority of people in that part of the UK and no amount of diddle-dee-i-begorrah will change that.

Ah here. This is nonsense.

judeboy101 · 19-04-2019 8:30am

spurious wrote: »

Ah here. This is nonsense.

Different religion, different allegiance, different system of government,different attitudes to gay rights, women's rights etc. Pretty big differences, I'd say

dudara · 19-04-2019 8:32am

judeboy101 wrote: »

They can think they are Polynesian for all I care, they are born in the UK, registered in the UK birth register and are by default, subjects of the queen.

This statement is downright inflammatory. Whatever you personally think about the North, it is clear that there is a large section of the population that do not see themselves as UK citizens.

I’m beginnning to think you are trolling. Either that or you actually trying to incite.

Mollyb60 · 19-04-2019 8:33am

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RIP to this poor lady. Absolutely shocking news to wake up to and not something that we need here at all. 99% of the people in NI just get on with things. It's the scummy 1% that need to **** off and stop causing trouble for the rest of us. No one wants their "help" with getting a united Ireland anymore.

Woman shot & killed in Derry being treated as a terrorist incident MOD WARNING IN OP

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