Sinn Fein MP John Finucane said the right to commemorate the dead must apply to every section of society as he addressed a controversial IRA memorial event in Co Armagh.
Mr Finucane, who faced calls to rethink his attendance at the commemoration in Mullaghbawn in south Armagh, spoke of his father’s murder during the Troubles as he stressed the importance of remembering lost loved ones.
The North Belfast MP’s solicitor father Pat was gunned down by loyalist paramilitaries inside the family home in north Belfast in 1989.
