The World - News from April 9, 1987
Funeral ceremonies for slain Irish Republican Army guerrilla Laurence Marley, 41, were finally held in Belfast after being twice postponed because of clashes between mourners and police. Up to 5,000 IRA supporters paraded through rain, occasionally scuffling with 500 helmeted riot police, as Marley’s cortege proceeded through Roman Catholic neighborhoods for six miles from his home to services in a local church and then to burial in a special IRA plot in the Catholic Milltown cemetery. No arrests were made, but one officer was taken to a hospital after he was hit in the face with a brick.
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