Councillor's family want inquiry over 1991 killing

The family of murdered Donegal councillor Eddie Fullerton will bring their demands for a public inquiry to a meeting with the…

The family of murdered Donegal councillor Eddie Fullerton will bring their demands for a public inquiry to a meeting with the Taoiseach today.

Mr Fullerton was shot dead at his home in Buncrana on May 25th, 1991, in what was believed at the time to be an attack by a Derry-based Ulster Defence Association (UDA) gang.

The Taoiseach's decision to meet the Fullertons comes after intensive campaigning by the family and by Sinn Féin for a full, independent, public inquiry into the alleged collusion of loyalist paramilitaries and British security forces.

Local Sinn Fein councillor Padraig Mac Lochlainn said: "It is vitally important that this meeting at the highest level is simply the first stage in further progressive and productive Government action on Eddie Fullerton's case.

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The issue was raised by Sinn Féin at the multiparty talks at St Andrew's in Scotland last month.