Strabane Republican memorials targeted in three separate attacks

Strabane Republican memorials targeted in three separate attacks

THREE separate attacks on Republican memorials in Strabane over the past two days have been condemned as ‘blatant acts of sectarian hatred’. Strabane councillor Brian Harte said the reported incidents included the theft of a cross commemorating Bobby Sands from a memorial at the junction of Townsend Street and Graveyard Road, an attempt to remove the Irish national flag from the Republican Memorial Garden on Fountain Street, and an attempt to te…