UK News 11-03-2005 who: IRA what: Says it offered to kill the men who murdered innocent father-of-two where: BELFAST when: Tuesday snippet: 33 year-old Roman Catholic Robert McCartney was murdered when he attempted to intervene in a fight at Magennis`s Bar on January 30th. A statement from the Provisionals said that representatives visited his family two weeks ago. They discussed their "internal disciplinary proceedings" and offered to shoot the men responsible but were informed that the family wanted to see justice done publicly. "The tone of the statement brought disbelief from all political quarters," says The Scotsman, "with some MPs saying it exposes how the IRA operates with a Mafia-style authority in Belfast, meting out its own punishment." And on Thursday, says The Guardian, MPs voted to strip the IRA`s political wing, Sinn Féin, of more than £400,000 in parliamentary allowances "in response to allegations of IRA involvement in December`s £26.5m Northern Bank raid". [... more]

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