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Man arrested in Scotland over Northern Irish policeman's murder

KATE HICKEY,

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Published Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 12:55 PM

Updated Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 1:20 PM

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Murdered - 25-year-old Catholic rookie cop Ronan Kerr

Detectives in Scotland have arrested a man in connection to the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr in Omagh, County Tyrone on Saturday. The arrest came after a significant arms find in the Coalisand area in Tyrone.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) found four rifles, detonators, component parts for rockets and explosives believed to be Semtex. The weapons were found in a garage unit at Mountjoy Road, Coalisand.

The man arrested was initially questioned with relation to the weapons find. He is now being questioned over the murder of the 25-year-old rookie Catholic police officer. He was arrested by armed police in a small town outside Renton, in Dunbartonshire, west of Glasgow. The operation was carried out between Strathclyde and the PSNI. Soon he will be transferred to Northern Ireland.

Speaking at Kerr's funeral Cardinal Sean Brady appealed to republican dissident to end the violence. He called Kerr's murder "an evil deed, an offence against God".

He spoke directly to the killer saying "We do not want this. In God's name stop – and stop now…Choose life, I say. Choose goodness, choose peace."

Kerr was murdered when a booby-trap bomb left under his car exploded outside his home in Omagh.

Although no group has claimed responsibility for the killings republicans are being blamed. Graffiti in the Bogside area of Derry warned there would be more killings if Catholic continued to join the PSNI.

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manhattan | Apr 07, 2011, 01:48 PM EDT

Oh Sirpeter your comments to longislander1940 really do show who the Irish trash is. tsk tsk

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sirpeter | Apr 06, 2011, 10:45 PM EDT

longislander1940..Shove your death penalty up your ass you longislander creatin' We don't do that here. We'll decide what's Irish trash you arrogant fu*k

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longislander1940 | Apr 06, 2011, 08:21 PM EDT

The ones that shot that police officer are nothing but a bunch of street thugs, low-lifes. People like that dont change. Just catch them and put them away or better let them have the death penalty . They are Irish trash.

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barneyjo | Apr 06, 2011, 07:10 PM EDT

Well well; is this perhaps the start of a backlash against those who murdered a Catholic, and Irishman AND a Gael (not my words) last saturday. On the face of things it would seem that someone has "dropped a coin" (made a phonecall) and named names!! If this proves to be the case then it would seem that these freedom fighters have managed to alienate themselves even from their own community heartland,which leaves them with NUTHIN!!

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