SF accused after new threat to McCartneys

Sinn Féin and the IRA were under renewed pressure tonight following threats to burn down the homes of the family of murdered Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney.

Politicians on all sides queued up to condemn Sinn Féin and paid scant regard to president Gerry Adams’ protestations that republicans were not behind the threats to the sisters of the man an IRA member stabbed to death in January.