A west Belfast GAA club criticised by the DUP after it hosted a documentary about the killing of three IRA members has defended its decision.
Mairéad Farrell, Sean Savage and Daniel McCann were shot dead in Gibraltar by the SAS on March 6 1988.
Michael Davitt GAC was criticised after a documentary about the killings was recently shown in its club rooms.
DUP MP Paul Girvan said: "This event is the latest in a series of events and actions by Sinn Féin that cause so much hurt to victims and offence to the wider community."
Republicans believe the trio, who were planning to bomb a group of British soldiers on the island, were the victims of a shoot-to-kill policy.
In a statement the club yesterday said it “fully supports and complies with the non-party political and non-sectarian ethos of the GAA”.
“On Sunday 4th March a local community group with no affiliation to any political party, having booked our clubroom, showed a documentary which featured the killing of three local people.
“These killings were the subject of condemnation from the European Court of Human Rights when it ruled for the first time on the use by any European country of lethal force and the right to life.”
The club, which has almost 450 members in the Beechmount, Clonard and Lower Falls areas, said the documentary was shown as part of a series of events.
“We recognise and understand the public interest in such a documentary and we are content that it was facilitated,” the statement said.
“This is especially so in the context of its showing as part of a wider programme of well-publicised cultural/community events which were conducted in a dignified manner.”
