Breege Quinn whose son was brutally beaten to death by an IRA squad near Castleblayney has said the Wolfe Tones' song which chants "Ooh Ahh Up the RA" is "hurtful and offensive". Her son, Paul, was 21 in October 2007 when he was lured to a shed and beaten with iron bars and wooden bats by up to 10 men.
It is thought he fell foul of the South Armagh IRA which culminated in a pub row with the son of an IRA man. Mrs Quinn told the Joe Finnegan Show time has not healed the pain she lives every day over the way in which her child died but thanked people from all over Ireland for their cards and messages of support over the past 17 years.
She also said if she heard the Wolfe Tones song being played she would turn it off. The grieving mother also said young people do not need to learn to glorify the IRA: "That is an awful reminder to the likes of me and others who lost people during the Troubles; and ours is so recent," Mrs Quinn said, "But, if they changed the words and left the 'RA out of it; if that was removed the young ones might forget about it y'know because they didn't live through the Troubles...the young ones today are innocent, y'know what I mean?"
