Accidents - Disasters - Fires - Floods - Tragedies
1972 - IRA TELL MOTHER-TO-BE TO GET OUT OR HOUSE WILL BE BURNED. MRS. PHILOMENA McGUCKEN, 24, the pregnant Belfast housewife beaten by a masked gang, said yesterday that the Provisional IRA have told her that her two-storey council house will be burned and her children attacked unless she leaves the area in 48 hours. Six men and two women, some of them armed, dragged Mrs McGucken from her home in Springhill Avenue. She was roped to a lamp-post, beaten with hurley sticks - like hockey sticks - and branded with red point and feathers. PHOTO SHOWS: MRS. PHILOMENA McGUCKEN, 24, recovering at her mother's home in West Belfast yesterday after being daubed with red point and feathers. With her are two of her three children, Elaine, 3, and Frank, seven months
