23/11/2007

Quinn Family Seeks Paisley Meeting

The family of the Paul Quinn, the south Armagh man brutually beaten to death in County Monaghan has asked to meet Northern Ireland's First Minister, Ian Paisley, over alleged IRA involvement in the murder.

The 21-year-old was beaten to death during a paramilitary-style gang assault just across trhe border from the young man's home in Cullyhanna.

The family - and many others - including Ulster Unionist peer, Lord John Laird, have always maintained that members of the Provisional IRA from south Armagh were involved and this has since been backed up by the Independent Monitoring Commission.

The Assembly Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Fein, has insisted that no republicans were involved and that the killing was related to a criminal dispute.

See: Peer Insists Quinn Murder Was IRA

(BMcC)

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