Just four statements from people who were in the pub where IRA murder victim Robert McCartney was attacked have been handed to the Police Ombudsman, it emerged tonight.

SINN FÉIN’S political isolation reached a low point last night as Washington embraced the family of murder victim Robert McCartney.

THE family of murdered Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney will hand over a dossier on his killing to US President George Bush when they meet him in the White House tomorrow.

Murder victim Robert McCartney’s family will today head for Washington on the next stage of their bid to hound his killers into court.

SINN FÉIN last night gave the first sign of irritation with the campaign to find justice for Robert McCartney when Martin McGuinness bluntly warned the family to back off.

A SECOND Sinn Féin election candidate was in the Belfast pub where IRA murder victim Robert McCartney was attacked.

Sinn Féin chief Martin McGuinness tonight urged IRA murder victim Robert McCartney’s sisters to stay out of party politics.

One of the chief suspects in the Robert McCartney murder inquiry is to be questioned by detectives, it emerged tonight.

A second Sinn Féin election candidate was in the Belfast pub where IRA murder victim Robert McCartney was attacked, it emerged tonight.

The family of Robert McCartney today challenged Sinn Féin’s fitness for government following revelations that one of its election candidates was in Magennis’s bar on the night he was murdered.

Sinn Féin chief negotiator Martin McGuinness said today he didn’t care who was in Magennis's bar the night robert McCartney was murdered as long as they gave information to the authorities.

A Sinn Féin Assembly election candidate was among around 70 people in the bar where Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney was murdered, it emerged today.