Calls for public inquiry into murder of SF councillor

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams has branded successive governments “a disgrace” for failing to launch a public inquiry into the murder of an elected representative 14 years ago.

Eddie Fullerton, a Sinn Féin councillor in Donegal, was shot dead in his home in Buncrana by loyalists in 1991, but no one was ever prosecuted for the killing.

Yesterday, members of the Fullerton family joined Mr Adams and other Sinn Féin representatives in a protest outside the Dáil, where they called for the Government to launch a public inquiry into the councillor’s murder.