Sinn Féin for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell publicly accused three of the Sinn Féin leadership, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Martin Ferris (TD for Kerry North) of being on the seven-man IRA Army Council; they later denied this. On 27 February 2005, a demonstration against the murder of Robert McCartney on 30 January 2005 was held in east Belfast. Alex Maskey, a former Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast, was told by relatives of McCartney to "hand over the 12" IRA members involved. The McCartney family, although formerly Sinn Féin voters themselves, urged witnesses to the crime to contact
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (; born 12 June 1973) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel since April 2016. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal North-East constituency from 2011 and 2016. He lost his seat at the 2016 general election, but was subsequently elected to the Seanad in April 2016. Mac Lochlainn was born in Leeds, England on 12 June 1973, the son of two Irish parents, Réamonn and Mary Mac Lochlainn. He is their only child. His father was a Provisional IRA