Adams out in cold as US embraces McCartney family

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

The five sisters and partner of the murdered Belfast man arrived in Baltimore airport to a rapturous welcome yesterday evening.

At tomorrow’s St Patrick’s Day reception in the White House, their presentation of a dossier on Robert’s murder to President George W Bush is expected to form a high-profile centrepiece that will clearly show where Mr Bush’s sympathies lie.