McDowell attacks IRA and 'vomit-making' Sinn Fein allies

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday launched a blistering attack on the IRA and their "vomit-making" Sinn Féin political allies over the abduction of a Republican dissident in Belfast.

As Sinn Féin rejected police claims the IRA was responsible for the incident, the Minister for Justice made the latest in a series of stinging attacks on the Republican movement.

"I am strongly of the view that the Provisional movement and that's Sinn Féin, by the way, we are not just talking about the [IRA's] Army Council is trying to have it both ways.