IRELAND: DUNDALK: REACTION TO THE REAL IRA'S OMAGH BOMBING ADMISSION
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The people of Dundalk in the Irish Republic have spoken of their shame at sharing their home town with the Republican splinter group which has admitted carrying out the Omagh bombing.
The man named by sources in the British security forces as the head of the self-styled Real I-R-A lives in a suburb of the town and owns a business in its centre.
From the lookout towers British soldiers keep a watchful eye over the rolling hills and the border that divides Ireland.
Just south of the frontier is Dundalk.
Most of the small town's residents were shocked when news of the blast in Omagh came to light.
But the town is also home to Michael Mickey McKevitt.
Security forces on both sides of the border believe that he heads the Real I-R-A.
McKevitt is reputed to have been a former weapons chief for the provisional I-R-A - but formed his own group after the latest ceasefire was agreed.
His common law wife is Bernadette Sands-McKevitt.
She is spokeswoman for the hardline Republican 32 County Sovereignty Committee which demands an immediate end to the British presence in Northern Ireland.
Her brother was Bobby Sands, an I-R-A member who died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison near Belfast in May 1981.
This is the home they share with their children in the Dundalk suburb of Blackrock. It was deserted on Monday and Tuesday.
The couple run a T-shirt shop in Dundalk. It too is empty.
Passers-by wish their home town wasn't associated with such a crime as the Omagh bombing.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I'm ashamed to say that if they did come from Dundalk, if the bombers did come from Dundalk, I'm just ashamed of them you know, it's terrible, it's just terrible, I'm sure everyone here in Dundalk feels the same way. Just disgusted at the whole thing. Q. Why do you think people are pointing the finger here? Because it's a border town probably and we're just south of the border and I don't really know to be quite honest with you. Why they should point the finger here.. The border's a big area, Dundalk seems to get it all the time and all the terrorists or whatever are supposed to come from Dundalk, I don't know.
SUPER CAPTION: Vox Pop, Dundalk resident
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Well I think it's terrible and I sincerely hope it's not true but with all the rumours I think it's terrible and I think most of the people from Dundalk, everybody in Dundalk would totally hope that it's not true. That we have no part in it. It's terrible what happened, it's absolutely awful and I would be terrible ashamed to think that our town would have had something to do with it.
SUPER CAPTION: Vox Pop, Dundalk resident
Soldiers in Ireland's army have been maintaining a high profile in Dundalk in recent days - like their British counterparts over the border, on the streets of bomb-ravaged Omagh.
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(21 Aug 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Court exterior
2. Plaque with court name
3. Court exterior
4. Various court interiors, court officials
5. Various, courtroom
6. Officials, security court entering
6. Michael Campbell speaking to defence layers
7. Press cutaway
8. Various of Campbell with lawyers
9. Wide of court security
10. Mid of Campbell with lawyers
11. Various of Campbell in the dock
12. Wide shot court room
13. Cutaway press leaving court room
14. Closeup up TV camera
15. Defence lawyer Ingrida Botyriene
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ingrida Botyriene, defence lawyer:
Q: Are you going to appeal this verdict?
Yes. Of course.
Why?
Because we think that such counter decision violates our client's rights, as seen by the European Convention on Human Rights.
Q How long has your defendant been held?
Nineteen months.
17. Wide of the lawyer speaking to press
STORYLINE:
A Lithuanian court has refused a request from a prominent Irish republican dissident to be given bail and released from jail whilst awaiting trial.
Michael Campbell, 36, from Dundalk, County Louth, was arrested with a woman companion in January, 2008, in a sting operation while allegedly trying to buy weapons and explosives for a break-away group of the Real IRA (Irish Republican Army).
The Vilnius District Court ruled on Friday that he was considered a flight risk.
Defence lawyer Ingrida Botyriene argued unsuccessfully that Campbell's rights had been violated because he has been in jail for 19 months without
trial.
She said she would appeal the decision.
Campbell is the brother of Liam Campbell, who according to Irish police helped create the Real IRA in 1997 and is currently a commander of the
outlawed group.
Lithuanian prosecutors claimed the arms and explosives would have ended up with the Real IRA faction.
According to prosecutors, the sting operation involved local police, Interpol and British security services.
The unnamed female companion, also an Irish citizen, was released shortly after the arrest.
Prosecutor Irmantas Mikelionis said Campbell faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted.
He also said Campbell could be transferred to Ireland to serve the sentence if Lithuania received such a request.
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