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05 eUrO) Friday, June 10, 2011

The pride of Northern Ireland

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Farquhar back for Senior TT

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Win the chance to meet Daniel

SEE PAGE 24

PM goes back to school on Ulster visit

Pair told of border risk

THE tribunal investigating claims of collusion between the IRA and Garda officers in the murder of two senior RUC officers has been told the pair had disobeyed orders. A former RUC assistant chief constable gave evidence in Dublin that chief supt Harry Breen and supt Bob Buchanan had been ordered not to cross the border before they were ambushed by the IRA gunmen in 1989. See pages 6 & 7

Prime minister David Cameron talks to schoolchildren during an arts session at the arC Healthy Living Centre in irvinestown during yesterdays trip to northern ireland, which included an address to the assembly at Stormont See pages 8 and 9
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Service of dedication

I was fighting for my life

Ex-UDR man tells remarkable story of gun battle with IRA gang
BY Mark raineY
mark.rainey@newsletter.co.uk

A SPECIAL service of dedication was held at St Columbs Cathedral in Londonderry last night to give thanks for the completion of recent refurbishment work. St Columbs is the oldest Protestant cathedral in Europe, having been built in the wake of the Reformation almost four centuries ago. See page 4

THE former UDR soldier who turned an IRA ambush into one of the regiments finest hours has told the News Letter of his remarkable exploits. In his first-ever newspaper interview, Eric Glass a Fermanagh dog warden and part-time corporal at the time of the 1992 attack gives a breathtaking account of how he survived his encounter with four heavily-armed Provos. Speaking in todays special News Letter supplement paying tribute to the UDR, the former soldier, pictured left, relives the nightmare of being ambushed by one of the IRAs notorious border units.

The 16-page pull-out coincides with the unveiling of a new UDR memorial in Lisburn this weekend. Telling how he stared death in the face, the softly spoken Fermanagh man describes being lured to a remote farm near Belleek and the moment masked gunmen approached his van. However, armed only with a pistol, he fired off the allimportant first round and one of the terrorists lay dead. I was fighting for my life, he said. Badly wounded in the firefight that followed, Mr Glass was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal second only to the Victoria Cross and became the regiments most highly decorated soldier. See pages 29-44; Morning View, page 18 inSiDe: todays special supplement