REPUBLICANS have posed in masks and what appear to be real firearms in Dublin,
We the Dublin brigade of Oglaigh na hEireann have commemorated Doco's anniversary with the flying of the old Dublin Brigade flag." Bomber The UVF were behind the attempted bomb attack. There were around 300 people, includ-ing members of the IRA and Sinn Fein, in the pub. Republicans hold commemora-tions to Martin Doherty every year. Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly, a former IRA bomber, spoke at the commemoration this year.to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of IRA member Martin Soco' Doherty, who was shot dead by the UVF in the capital. Four members of the group, calling themselves the Dublin , brigade of Oglaigh na hEireann, posed with what appear to be rifles at an unknown loca-tion in Dublin.
Challenged The picture, which was sent to the Sunday World offices during the week, marked the 20th anniversary of Doherty's death on Wednesday. He had been working as a door-man on a fundraising night for IRA prisoners in the Widow Scallans pub on Pearse Street on May 21, 1994, when he was killed.
He challenged two men trying to enter the pub with a holdall bag and was shot three times by one of them. Another man was shot in the neck during the inci-dent, but survived the attack. The gunmen fled, but left behind the bag, which was found to con-tain an 1811) bomb. The bomb's det-onator went off, but the explosives failed to detonate, preventing a massacre from occurring. In a statement included with the picture sent into the Sunday World, a spokesman said: "There is no doubt that Martin's courage that night saved countless lives.
