Mary McArdle, Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 republican

Irish Republicanism

Irish republicanism is an ideology based on the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.In 1801, under the Act of Union, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merged to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

 and former Provisional Irish Republican Army

Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...

 (IRA) member.

McArdle is the Ministerial Special Adviser to to Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

 Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín

Carál Ní Chuilín

Carál Ní Chuilín, MLA is an Irish politician in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Sinn Féin member for North Belfast...

 and a former IRA member, convicted of murder in 1984. Her appointment to the position was controversial because of her conviction for the murder of Mary Travers

Mary Travers (murder victim)

Mary Travers was a teacher killed by the IRA on the 8 April, 1984.-Overview:Travers was a twenty-two year old Catholic and one of two daughters of Tom Travers, a magistrate. She, her father, and mother, had just left St Brigid's Catholic Church in Derryvolgie Avenue in south Belfast when gunmen...

. The IRA were targeting Travers' father, Resident Magistrate Tom Travers, as he and his family left Mass. McArdle served 14 years in prison before being released early under the terms of the Belfast Agreement

Belfast Agreement

The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement , sometimes called the Stormont Agreement, was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process...

.

McArdle expressed remorse for the murder of Travers, calling it "a tragic mistake".

See also

• Gillian Johnston
  Gillian Johnston
  Gillian Johnston, chemist and shop worker, killed by the IRA, 18 March 1988, aged 21.-Overview:Johnston was a twenty-one year old chemist and shop worker from Tonaghgorm, Legg, near Belleek, County Fermanagh. She was engaged for two years, having dated her fiance since she was fifteen...
  
  
• The Hanna family
  The Hanna family
  Robert James Hanna, Maureen Hanna and their only child David Hanna were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb on 23 July 1988.-Overview:Robert Hanna was a forty-five year old building contractor married to Maureen, aged forty-four...
  
  
• Jean McConville
  Jean McConville
  Jean McConville was a woman from Northern Ireland who, in 1972, was abducted and killed by the Provisional IRA and secretly buried on a beach in the Republic of Ireland. The IRA subsequently claimed that she had been passing information on republican activities to British security forces...
  
  
• Thomas Oliver (farmer)
  Thomas Oliver (farmer)
  Thomas Oliver, farmer, killed by the IRA on 19 July 1991.-Overview:A farmer with no connection to paramilitary group or the security forces, Oliver was a thirty-seven year-old father of seven children, and a native of Riverstown on the Cooley peninsula, near Dundalk...