People's Rebellion: Is This the End for Sinn Fein?Story of the Weekdespite the Republicans' Incredible Offer to Shoot the Killer of Robert Mccartney, Billy Briggs Discovers That His Family Long for the Rule of Law. Next Week, They Take Their Case to the White House

The Herald › March 13, 2005

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TWO days after her brother was stabbed, beaten to a bloodied pulp and left dying in a Belfast street, Paula McCartney watched as some of his murderers led a funeral procession past her front door.

Two IRA members - who live within 100 yards of her home in the staunchly nationalist Short Strand area of east Belfast - shouldered the coffin of a respected elderly woman.

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People's Rebellion: Is This the End for Sinn Fein?Story of the Weekdespite the Republicans' Incredible Offer to Shoot the Killer of Robert Mccartney, Billy Briggs Discovers That His Family Long for the Rule of Law. Next Week, They Take Their Case to the White House

Hundreds of mourners followed slowly behind, their heads bowed.

To be carried to your final resting place by Irish patriots is supposed to be an honour in nationalist communities. The sight made Paula physically sick. "These are psychopaths we are talking about - walking our streets, " she says, spitting out the words.

On January 30, a Sinn Fein/IRA mob murdered 33-year-old Robert McCartney in public after a drunken brawl erupted in Magennis's bar in the city centre...

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