IRA admission - Sinn Féin must work to build trust

THE IRA’s admission yesterday that it was responsible for killing 14-year-old Kathleen Feeney in Derry in November 1973 is another grim reminder of the destructive nature of the Troubles.

Unlike the murder of Jean McConville, the mother of 10 children, the killing of Kathleen Feeney was unintentional, but she was just as dead, and her family were robbed of their teenage girl. The admission was a belated one, almost 32 years after the murder, which the IRA disingenuously tried to blame on a British soldier.

The murderous affair highlights the need to advance the peace process so that no other family suffers such horror. The IRA is expected to respond in the coming weeks to Gerry Adams’s request for it to stand down and decommission all arms.