Murdered man's family meet McCartneys in Belfast

The family of a man shot dead in west Dublin met the McCartney sisters in Belfast today.

Twenty-nine-year-old Joseph Rafferty was murdered outside his home in Ongar last April by a man who, relatives suspect, was in the IRA.

They travelled to the North for talks with the family of Robert McCartney, who was stabbed and beaten to death in January.

His sister Catherine said intimidation was a common factor in both murders and that Republicans had refused to co-operate fully in bringing the killers to justice.