Raymond McCartney
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Raymond McCartney MLA |
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| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Foyle |
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Assumed office 15 July 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Mary Nelis |
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29 November 1954 Derry, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Sinn Féin |
| Spouse(s) | Rose |
| Children | Conchúr |
| Alma mater | University of Ulster |
| Website | Sinn Féin profile |
Raymond McCartney (born 29 November 1954) is a Sinn Féin politician, and a former hunger striker and volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
McCartney took part in the civil rights march in Derry on 30 January 1972, an event widely known as Bloody Sunday. One of his cousins, James Wray, was one of 14 men shot and killed by the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment on that march. As a result of this incident McCartney joined the Provisional IRA several months later. On 12 January 1979 at Belfast Crown Court McCartney and another man, Eamonn MacDermott, were convicted of the murder of Detective Constable Patrick McNulty of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, who was shot several times outside a garage in Derry on 27 January 1977. McCartney was also convicted of IRA membership and the murder of businessman Jeffery Agate in February 1977, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The murder convictions were overturned in 2007.
McCartney was involved in the blanket and dirty protests, then took part in the 1980 hunger strike, along with fellow IRA members Brendan Hughes, Tommy McKearney, Tom McFeely, Sean McKenna, Leo Green, and Irish National Liberation Army member John Nixon.
McCartney spent 53 days on hunger strike, from 27 October to 18 December. From 1989-91 he was Officer Commanding of the IRA prisoners in the H Blocks, and was released in 1994.
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