Sinn Fein supporter Robert McCartney was killed in a Belfast pub by republicans linked to the IRA.

And how did the IRA propose to make things right? But offering to kill those directly responsible for McCartney's death!!

Here's an excerpt from the BBC story:

Few people in Belfast were surprised to hear that the IRA's answer to recent problems was to reach for its guns.

Robert McCartney, 33, was killed after a row in a bar

After all, that is what the IRA knows best.

In spite of the peace process, it remains a terrorist organisation with thousands of weapons and, when pushed, it is not afraid to use them.

So it was no great shock to find out how the leadership responded when faced with the embarrassment of IRA "volunteers" being involved in the murder of a Sinn Fein supporter, Robert McCartney.

Instead of politics, the IRA preferred pistols.

Rather than calling on the killers to go to the police, it preferred "justice" from a firing squad.

The big surprise was that the IRA made this position public.

By putting out a statement saying it had been "prepared to shoot the people directly involved in the killing of Robert McCartney", the IRA invited criticism. And so it came.