Word: belfast
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...Senators Edward Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Chris Dodd and a chat with Bush at the annual St. Patrick's Day reception at the White House. Bush listened as the women vowed to find justice for the death of their brother Robert McCartney, murdered earlier this year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by a gang the family says included members of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Robert's fiancé Bridgeen Hagans made the trip with the sisters. "Justice will prevail," Bush told them, before repeating one of his favorite post-9/11 lines: "Out of evil can come great good...
...sisters, whose ages range from 27 to 41, live in a hardscrabble Catholic neighborhood of East Belfast. On Jan. 30, Robert, 33, a forklift driver and a father of two, was at a pub in Belfast when he got into an argument. It spilled into the street, where McCartney was stabbed and beaten to death by a gang that allegedly included I.R.A. members. The perpetrators cleaned the scene, removed closed-circuit television footage and intimidated witnesses, the sisters and police say. Some witnesses have come forward but have denied seeing the actual attack, and no one has been charged. "Seventy...
...family said it rejected. Since then more victims of I.R.A. thuggery have gone public. Outrage at the I.R.A.'s failure to root out criminal elements has focused scrutiny on Sinn Fein, which is already under pressure to distance itself from the I.R.A. after a $50 million robbery at a Belfast bank in December that the British and Irish governments have blamed on the armed group. Congressional supporters of Sinn Fein say the group must dismantle the I.R.A. if it hopes to revive failing peace negotiations with the other parties to the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Adams told TIME that...
...McCartneys vow to continue fighting. Paula is considering a run for Belfast city council. The women's courage has already won them some important friends. After the sisters told Ted Kennedy that their mother adored President John F. Kennedy, the Senator insisted on speaking to her. Reached by phone, she asked Kennedy, "Are you taking good care of my girls?" The sisters have earned it. --With reporting by Melissa August and John F. Dickerson/Washington
...There is no place for kangaroo courts or capital punishment in this country." PAUL MURPHY, Northern Ireland Secretary of State, condemning an I.R.A. offer to execute any of its members responsible for the murder of a Belfast man involved in a pub argument with alleged I.R.A. foot soldiers, an event that renewed calls for the group to disband...