The killers of Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney were today branded cowards by Gerry Adams for failing to face up to what they had done.

A company part-owned by a senior SDLP figure reportedly helped arrange the McCartney family's visit to the United States last week.

Mary Dundon, Political Reporter, Washington

THE IRA’s offer to shoot the murderers of Robert McCartney shows the Provisional movement is in “political freefall” and in deep crisis, a clearly astonished Justice Minister Michael McDowell said last night.

POLICE in the North have released a man who had been questioned about the murder of Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney.

A man arrested in connection with the murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney was released without charge late last night.

THE Provisional IRA last revealed it had kicked out three of its members, believed to be linked to the murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney.

The IRA has expelled three of its members over the murder of a man outside a Belfast bar, it emerged tonight.