Second Sinn Fein Candidate in Murder Bar?The McCartney murder story keeps getting
stranger and stranger.
A second Sinn Fein election candidate was in the Belfast pub where the IRA murder victim Robert McCartney was attacked, it emerged tonight.
As a beleaguered Gerry Adams prepared to give a speech in America amid a US backlash against Sinn Fein, the party disclosed that Deirdre Hargey was still inside Magennis’s Bar when police first arrived.
Cora Groogan, another Sinn Fein candidate, has already confirmed that she was in the bar.Slate has a
pretty good backgrounder on the whole story. Check out
Richard Delevan and
Slugger O'Toole for more.