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Irish haulier battles on

21st November 1996
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by Karen Miles • A tanker operator from Northern Ireland whose business was blacklisted and his truck petrolbombed because he is a Protestant in a Catholic area, is battling to keep his operation running.

Victor Ramsey, who runs a two-truck operation from Pomeroy, a village about 40 miles west of Belfast, says that without the recent influx of custom from Protestants in the region his fuel delivery business would have been unable to survive.

Following this summer's controversial Protestant marches through Catholic areas in the province one of his trucks was petrolbombed as it stood outside his home in the mainly Catholic village.

Many Catholics have since cancelled their deliveries with Ramsey but a recent report on Ramsey's plight in a Belfast newspaper has encouraged a number of Protestant hauliers, fanners and householders to place orders.

"Three weeks ago I would have said we were facing ruin but if we keep getting these new orders it will help," says Ramsey. Even so, the turnover of Ramsey Fuels is only half that of a year ago.

Ramsey expects to wait another two years before receiving £10,000 compensation from the Northern Ireland office for the destruction of his 17-tonne Leyland Freighter.

He says: "I have worked very hard on the business and I just don't want to give it up overnight."

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Locations: Belfast

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