Ahern backs McCartney stance on murder…

IRISH Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has said that a test of Sinn Fein’s opposition to criminality would be to turn in the killers of Bert McCartney. Ahern met the vicim’s family today, and said it was the patriotic duty of anybody who witnessed the killing of to come forward and talk to the PSNI. Since policing and acceptance of hte rule of law is absolutely key to the future political stability of Northern Ireland the significance of how events unfold in this tragic saga could be major.

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