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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

‘You can never forget’: a woman remembers her three brothers, murdered one by one by the IRA

Pam Morrison
‘The older you get, the worse it gets, the more you want them’: Pam Morrison. Photograph: Paul Faith/The Guardian

When the gunmen came for Jimmy Graham they were thorough. They fired the first two shots as he parked his bus in the school yard, then boarded the bus and fired another 24 shots. As the killers sped away they whooped in delight. “Yahoo,” they screamed. “Yahoo.”

It was 1 February 1985 and the IRA team had special reason to celebrate: it had bagged a third Graham brother. They had killed Ronnie Graham in June 1981, Cecil Graham in November 1981 and now, just over three years later, they got Jimmy. A hat-trick.

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