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
Phil Mac Giolla Bhain Phil Mac Giolla Bhain Philip Joseph Gerard "Phil" Mac Giolla Bhain is a Scottish-born Irish author, playwright and freelance journalist. After training to be a social worker, and working in Glasgow, Mac Giolla Bhain moved to Donegal in 1996. From 1999 to 2006 he was a staff journalist with "An Phoblacht" a newspaper published by the IRA supporting political party Sinn Féin, writing under the pen name Mick Derrig, a reference to Mac Giolla Bhain's maternal grand-uncle. Mac Giolla Bhain came to prominence by charting events leading to the financial collapse of the Glasgow football club Rangers. In April 2010