Letters - Answers needed to family's questions

19 April 2010
The Irish News

We would like to make an appeal through your newspaper to the voters of Newry and Armagh. Our son Paul was murdered in an extremely brutal way by a masked gang in a cattle shed on October 20 2007.

Almost immediately after Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy, our MP, claimed that Paul was murdered as a result of some criminal feud. On the BBC's Spotlight programme November 13 2007 said: "Paul Quinn was involved in smuggling and criminality and I think everyone accepts that."

Continue Reading... Labels: 2010, Paul Quinn, Sean Hughes, Sinn Féin

Murder victim's parents demand Sinn Fein MP withdraws 'slur'

19 April 2010
The Irish News
Barry McCaffrey

The parents of south Armagh murder victim Paul Quinn have renewed their challenge to Sinn Fein MP Conor Murphy to withdraw his claim that their son was involved in criminality.

Paul Quinn (21) was lured to a farm on the border in October 2007 and beaten by a masked gang with iron bars.

He died in hospital the following day.

The dead man's family blamed the IRA, although the claim was strenuously rejected by Sinn Fein.

Continue Reading... Labels: 2010, Paul Quinn, Sean Hughes, Sinn Féin

No peace in N. Ireland for slain Catholic's kin; Many think IRA behind crime

29 December 2009
The Washington Times
J. Malcolm Garcia

More than two years after his brutal death, the people in this rural village think they know who killed Paul Quinn.

They just can't prove it.

The killing in October 2007 of Mr. Quinn, a 21-year-old truck driver who grew up in the militant rural county known as South Armagh, offers a stark reminder that Northern Ireland's legacy of paramilitary violence has yet to fade more than a decade after the U.S.-brokered agreement ended the war between local Roman Catholics and Protestants loyal to British rule.

Instead, some branches of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) have morphed into criminal gangs that prey largely on fellow Catholics. Mr. Quinn is cited as the latest example.

Continue Reading... Labels: 2009, Paul Quinn, Sean Hughes, Sinn Féin