PROMINENT Co Tyrone republican Gerry McGeough has claimed the DUP knew about the amnesty to republicans after details emerged during his trial in 2010 for attempting to kill a UDR man. Speaking to The Irish News last night the former senior Sinn Fein member said details of the amnesty were made public during his trial for the attempted murder of Samuel Brush, who now sits as a DUP councillor in Dungannon. McGeough left Sinn Fein in 2001 because he was opposed to the party's position on abortion. During the 2007 assembly elections he stood against Sinn Fein as an independent candi[...]