Accidents - Disasters - Fires - Floods - Tragedies
Oct. 10, 1971 - Funeral Of Shot Sisters In Belfast: In Belfast yesterday, teenage girls of the women's I R A, wearing black barets and dark glasses, slowmarched beside the Tricolour-draped coffins of two shot sisters, who were given a showpiece funeral. Nearly 10, 000 Catholics lined the streets as the bodies of Miss Dorothy Maguire, 19, and Mrs Mary Mechan, 30, a mother of four, were carried to the traditional Republican plot at the city's Milltown cemetery. They were shot in a car by troops at the weekend. The Army said shots were fired at troops from the back window of the vehicle. Miss Maguire was an I R A staff officer and her sister a member of a local action committee. Photo shows Women members of the I R A standing to attention as the coffin of Mrs Mary Mechan, one of the two Belfast sisters shot dead by troops at the weekend, was borne from her here for yesterday's funeral
