Family has little faith of change on the street

IRA members will not cede control of strongly republican districts in the North, despite yesterday’s announcement on the decommissioning of weapons, the sister of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney said last night.

Paula McCartney said she had little faith there would be any change on the ground, certainly in the short term.

Members of the organisation were accused of being centrally involved in the late January murder of Mr McCartney, who was beaten and stabbed to death outside a pub in Belfast.