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
Belfast South (Dáil constituency) Belfast Cromac and Belfast Ormeau. Even in a proportional representation election the Unionists won all four seats. The Nationalists and Sinn Féin combined could not accumulate a quota of more than one-fifth of the votes. "In 1921 parliamentary representatives of the constituency were elected using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation." Belfast South (Dáil constituency) Belfast South, was a former potential Dáil Éireann parliamentary constituency located in Northern Ireland despite being outside the Dáil's jurisdiction. It was a Dáil constituency from 1921 to 1922. The constituency was, in Irish republican theory, entitled to return four Teachtaí Dála (known