‘Fringe’ group blamed for posted cartridges

“FRINGE” pro-life activists were last night blamed for threatening letters and shotgun cartridges being sent to two government ministers and at least two fertility clinics.

A Garda investigation is under way after Health Minister Mary Harney and her predecessor in that department, Enterprise Minister Micheál Martin, both received packages containing a letter and a cartridge from a previously unknown group calling itself the “Irish Citizens Defence Force”.

The packages were delivered to their respective offices on February 29.