Unionists angered by ‘triumphal’ republican dinner

The husband of a woman killed in an IRA bomb has branded ‘‘offensive’’ a weekend commemoration in Dublin of republicans killed during the Troubles.

Alan McBride, whose wife Sharon was among nine civilians killed in a bomb attack on a fish shop on the loyalist Shankill Road which also killed an IRA member, criticised a dinner organised in a Dublin hotel on Saturday by Sinn Fein for 450 families of republicans killed during the conflict.