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Ballymoney - Orange Assessment Correct

29 October 1999

The conviction in the Crown Court case over the murders on July 12, 1998 of the three young Quinn boys - Jason, Mark and Richard - confirms exactly where the blame for this terrible atrocity lies.

The reasons behind the sinister events surrounding the murders were very apparent to many people in the North Antrim area at the time, and the evidence submitted at the recent Court Hearing is proof indeed as to the cause of the tragic deaths of these young boys.

The Orange Institution made it clear at the time that the killings had absolutely nothing to do with Orangeism and totally condemned them. The Institution's view has now been vindicated.

In the hours after the tragedy, and the subsequent days and months, large sections of the press and media both locally and at international level disgracefully, sought to demonise, the Orange Institution and members of the Orange family over the incident.

They were joined in this insidious smear campaign by leading public figures in church, state and political life who would generally fall into the category of "the great and the good". How terribly wrong they all were!

The court conviction now compels these people to provide us immediately with a complete retraction of the line they took over the affair and to issue an apology for the very obvious misrepresentation of the facts in the lead-up to, and the actual attack on the Quinn home.

Notwithstanding the machinations and intent of those who tried to implicate us over this incident, we as an Institution can never forget the terrible tragedy of the deaths of the three young children. We would again offer our sincere and heartfelt sympathy to the boys' mother and other members of the still grieving Quinn family.

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