Murder in Belfast: Sisters Seeking Justice review – a family’s astonishing bravery helped make history

When Robert McCartney was killed in a bar brawl involving members of the Provisional IRA in Belfast in 2005, his five sisters refused to be intimidated. They took their story to the White House and it accelerated the peace process

The documentary Murder in Belfast: Sisters Seeking Justice, about the McCartney siblings’ fight to bring their brother’s killers to justice, makes you wonder. As it outlines the five women’s ceaseless, fearless actions over the last 20 years, you can’t help but ask: when did the IRA and Sinn Féin realise they had picked on the wrong family to cross?

Robert McCartney, a Catholic father of two, was 33 when he was killed in 2005.