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
Andy Barr (Irish politician) Jimmy Graham to organise a march to demonstrate this. General Secretary of the TUC Len Murray led the march, into the Port of Belfast, with Barr. Andy Barr (Irish politician) Andy Barr (23 September 1913 – 30 March 2003) was an Irish communist and trade unionist. He was born in Belfast, Barr became a sheet metal worker, and joined the Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI) in 1942. Barr became a shop steward in 1942, and by 1948 was a member of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers's Executive Committee. In 1949, he was sacked for organising