Northern Ireland Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has agreed to meet the family of Belfast murder victim Robert McCartney. The father-of-two, aged 33 and from the Short Strand, was stabbed and beaten by IRA members outside Magennis’s bar in Belfast city centre in January 2005 and died the next day. She said: “I have always said I have fully complied with any investigation into what happened to Robert McCartney. Robert’s sister Catherine, another four sisters and his fiancee Bridgeen Hagans have fought a long campaign to bring his killers to justice. They raised the issue at the European Parliament in Strasbourg and met then US president George W Bush at the White House.

Source: Irish Examiner January 15, 2020 13:30 UTC