SF council chairman won't condemn Enniskillen bombing

Mr McCann, in an interview with Fermanagh based newspaper the Impartial Reporter, said he will not “go down the road of condemning” the Enniskillen bombing of November, 1987.

In the bombing, a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded near the town’s war memorial during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony. A total of 63 people were injured in the bombing, in addition to the 11 people who lost their lives.

Councillor McCann, who took up the position of council chairman last month, told the Impartial Reporter: “People in my community have suffred as well and you can get into this thing of do you condemn this and do you condemn that? We are talking about an incident that happened 30 yeas ago, albeit still very raw in people’s minds and all the rest.”

He added: “But how do you move forward? Do you dwell on the past? How do you bring this forward?”