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Eddie Fullerton murder "breakthrough" 10.06.09

THE arrest of two men this week in connection with the murder of Buncrana Sinn Féin councillor Eddie Fullerton 18 years ago has been described as a "significant breakthrough"
The two men have since been released. Police arrested a 41-year-old man in the North West on Tuesday at the request of Gardaí. A second man, who is 45-years-old, presented himself at a police station in County Antrim the same morning.
Cllr Fullerton was shot dead by the UFF at his home in Cockhill Park, Buncrana, Co Donegal in May 1991.
Sinn Féin MP Martin McGuinness said the arrests were down to the persistence and perseverance of Eddie Fullerton's family who refused to "buy the lies and have campaigned tirelessly for the truth".
“Eddie Fullerton was gunned down in his Buncrana home 18 years ago. The loyalist murder gang responsible were allowed to escape and kill again. The Fullerton family have been badly let down by both policing systems North and South in the years since," said Mr McGuinness.
“Despite all of the blockages to justice, the Fullertons have maintained their dignity and brought their campaign for the truth to every forum in Ireland and beyond. It is my hope that these arrests will mark the beginning of the emergence of the truth surrounding Eddie's murder and the subsequent failure of the Guards and the RUC to rigorously The late Eddie Fullerton
pursue his killers.”
Meanwhile, Buncrana Sinn Féin Councillor Padraig MacLochlainn added:
“I have spoken with the Fullerton family today. After all of the let downs and set backs they have received in their campaign for the truth surrounding Eddie’s murder, they are hopeful that these arrests represent a significant breakthrough.
“Sinn Féin will continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Fullerton family and provide them with every support and encouragement until they receive justice and establish the truth into the circumstances before and after Eddie’s murder.”
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