SF attacks soldiers' redundancy package

A £250m (€364.3m)-plus British government redundancy package for more than 3,000 soldiers in Northern Ireland should have been allocated to improving public services, a Sinn Féin MP claimed today.

Michelle Gildernew said families whose relatives had been victims of alleged collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and members of the Ulster Defence Regiment and Royal Irish Regiment were angry at the pay-off.