Raymond McCartney

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Raymond McCartney (2013)

Raymond McCartney (* 1954 in Derry , Northern Ireland ) is a Sinn Féin politician who took part in a political hunger strike and was an active member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).

IRA membership

McCartney took part in the January 30, 1972 demonstration in Derry known as Bloody Sunday . His cousin Jim Wray was shot dead by paratroopers from the British Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday . After this incident, McCartney joined the IRA a few months later. On January 12, 1979, McCartney and another man, Eamonn MacDermott, were arrested and charged with the murder of Detective Constable Patrick McNulty, who was shot to death outside a garage in Derry on January 27, 1977. McCartney was also charged with IRA membership and as the murderer of Jeffrey Agate in February 1977 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

After release from prison

McCartney took part in the Blanket Protest and Dirty Protest and also in the 1980 hunger strike , as did IRA members Brendan Hughes , Tommy McKearney , Tom McFeeley, Sean McKenna, Leo Green and Irish National Liberation Army member John Nixon. McCartney was on hunger strike for 53 days, from October 27th to December 18th. From 1989 to 1991 he was the commanding officer of the IRA prisoners in H Blocks and was released in 1994.

Freedom

Since his release he has been a member of the ex-prisoner groups Tar Abhaile and Coiste na n-Íarchimí ; he was the first on television to oppose Gerry Adams' banning from the public media in 1994. McCartney was arrested on April 4, 2002 for relocating security regulations at Belfast Police Headquarters, but was released the next day. Later that year, on September 5, McCartney became the first IRA man to testify before the Bloody Sunday investigation , including the paramilitaries, so that the matter can be resolved and move forward. McCartney has been a member of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland since July 15, 2004 for Foyle , where Mary Nelis ousted. On February 15, 2007, the Court of Appeals overturned McCartney's original murder sentence after the results of a 2002 investigative commission became known.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Taylor : Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin . Bloomsbury Publishing , 1997, ISBN 0-7475-3818-2 , pp. 121-122.
  2. ↑ Peter Taylor: Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin. Pp. 126-127.
  3. ↑ Boris Worrall: Commission refers murder convictions of Raymond McCartney and Eamonn MacDermott for appeal . Criminal Cases Review Commission. January 20, 2006. Archived from the original on January 8, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 21, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ccrc.gov.uk
  4. ^ Robert Deutsch: Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA . Pan Books, 2004, ISBN 0-330-49388-4 , p. 193.
  5. ↑ Peter Taylor: Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin . Bloomsbury Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-7475-3818-2 , pp. 232-234.
  6. ^ Robert Deutsch: Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA . Pan Books, 2004, ISBN 0-330-49388-4 , p. 228.
  7. ^ Raymond McCartney . Stratagem. Archived from the original on August 29, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 15, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stratagem-ni.com
  8. ^ Security breach inquiry: Three released . BBC News . April 5, 2002. Retrieved February 21, 2007.
  9. ↑ Rosie Cowan: Former IRA man recalls shootings . The Guardian . September 6, 2002. Retrieved February 21, 2007.
  10. ↑ Northern Ireland Assembly Election - November 26, 2003 . Northern Ireland Assembly . Archived from the original on September 26, 2006. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 21, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.niassembly.gov.uk
  11. ↑ Murder convictions ruled unsafe . BBC News . February 15, 2007. Retrieved February 21, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME McCartney, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish IRA member, politician (Sinn Féin)
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Derry , Northern Ireland