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IRA woman event meeting put back IRA Gibraltar woman event blocked
(about 18 hours later)
The assembly commission is to meet again on Thursday to discuss a Sinn Féin plan to celebrate the life of IRA member Maireád Farrell at Stormont. A Sinn Féin function at Stormont to celebrate the life of IRA member Maireád Farrell has been blocked, the BBC understands.
The cross-party body, which is charged with looking after the estate, has been asked to rule on the event, to mark International Women's Day. It is believed the Assembly Commission, which runs the estate, voted to stop it taking place in the Long Gallery.
A number of meetings on the issue have already been postponed this week. The function due to be held on Friday is now expected to go ahead in the Sinn Féin party office at Stormont.
Farrell was shot dead in Gibraltar in 1988 along with two other IRA members by the SAS. Farrell was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988 along with two other IRA members.
Keys to a car found in her handbag led to the discovery in Spain of five packages of Semtex explosive. Assembly sources say Sinn Féin's Paul Butler was the only commission member to vote in favour of holding the event.
Farrell had previously been jailed between 1976 and 1986 for the bombing of the Conway Hotel in Dunmurry, outside Belfast. The sources say the assembly is moving to a position in which event organisers will need the backing of three MLAs on a cross-community basis in order to hold a function in the Long Gallery.
The commission will have to resolve the issue ahead of the planned event on Friday in Stormont's Long Gallery. The cross-party body had been asked to rule on the event, to mark International Women's Day. A number of meetings on the issue earlier this week had been postponed.
Farrell was jailed between 1976 and 1986 for the bombing of the Conway Hotel in Dunmurry, outside Belfast.
In Gibraltar, keys to a car found in her handbag led to the discovery in Spain of five packages of Semtex explosive.