OMAGH VICTIMS CHALLENGE SINN FEIN
Omagh victims challenge Sinn Fein
OMAGH bomb victims I families have challenged Gerry Adams to back their quest for justice as he has for murder victim Robert McCartney's family. With the republican movement under unprecedented pressure, the Sinn Fein president demanded the IRA gang suspected of killing the father-of-two admit their guilt. But his support for Mr McCartney's sisters, who claim the pub brawl stabbing has been covered-up, provoked a new call over the Omagh massacre.
Michael Gallagher, right, whose son Aiden was among 29 people killed in the August 1998 Real IRA explosion,accused Sinn Fein of refusing to
encourage those who knew about the attack to help the investigation.
"Gerry Adams seems to have had a change of heart over the Robert McCartney murder," he insisted.
"Is he willing to treat the Omagh families on an equal basis?"
Dissident republicans carried out the worst single atrocity during 30 years of bloodshed in the north, for which no one has ever been convicted.
Yet Mr Gallagher insisted that the involvement of Sinn Fein's leadership would be crucial.
"The perpetrators came from within the wider republican family,"
Mr Gallagher said. "Adams and Sinn Fein are the only people with a strong influence in this area either to give any assistance or any
knowledge to the Police Service of Northern Ireland or garda.
OMAGH bomb victims I families have challenged Gerry Adams to back their quest for justice as he has for murder victim Robert McCartney's family. With the republican movement under unprecedented pressure, the Sinn Fein president demanded the IRA gang suspected of killing the father-of-two admit their guilt. But his support for Mr McCartney's sisters, who claim the pub brawl stabbing has been covered-up, provoked a new call over the Omagh massacre.
Michael Gallagher, right, whose son Aiden was among 29 people killed in the August 1998 Real IRA explosion,accused Sinn Fein of refusing to
encourage those who knew about the attack to help the investigation.
"Gerry Adams seems to have had a change of heart over the Robert McCartney murder," he insisted.
"Is he willing to treat the Omagh families on an equal basis?"
Dissident republicans carried out the worst single atrocity during 30 years of bloodshed in the north, for which no one has ever been convicted.
Yet Mr Gallagher insisted that the involvement of Sinn Fein's leadership would be crucial.
"The perpetrators came from within the wider republican family,"
Mr Gallagher said. "Adams and Sinn Fein are the only people with a strong influence in this area either to give any assistance or any
knowledge to the Police Service of Northern Ireland or garda.
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Publisher: THE IRISH NEWS
Ref: IN/0734
Published Date: 07-Mar-05
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