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(Left to right) Sinn Fein MP Pat Cullen, Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald and Vice President Michelle O'Neill speak to the media at The Culloden Hotel, Belfast, after a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, March 12, 2026
SINN FEIN has demanded a public inquiry into the 1997 murder of Gaelic Athletics Club chairman Sean Brown by loyalist paramilitaries.
Party leader Mary Lou McDonald met Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in Belfast today and pressed the British government to stop resisting legal rulings mandating the holding of an inquiry.
She said: “The Prime Minister must now act to establish a public inquiry into the murder of Sean Brown, the Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAC Chairman murdered in 1997.
“The British government is appealing recent court rulings that found its failure to establish a public inquiry into his murder to be incompatible with its obligations under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
“Sean Brown’s widow, Bridie, now 87, has waited too long for justice and this continued resistance to an inquiry is totally unacceptable.
“I put it directly to Keir Starmer that he should meet Bridie Brown, and to drop [the] appeal to the Supreme Court.”
