Convicted IRA trio take top portfolios in Sinn Fein line-up
Three convicted IRA members will take the majority of Sinn Fein’s ministries in Northern Ireland’s incoming power-sharing Executive next month.
As the Province’s four main parties entitled to Cabinet seats in the Executive announced which portfolios they would be seeking, Sinn Fein revealed that its team would include Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister, as well as Gerry Kelly and Conor Murphy.
Mr Kelly, 54, was convicted of the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, in which one person died and 180 were injured. In 1983 he led the Maze prison breakout by Provisional IRA prisoners, in which a prison officer died of a heart attack after being stabbed....