i.r.a. offers to shoot former i.r.a. members responsible for murder

This is a true story: In January, Robert McCartney was murdered in an Irish bar. The man's family claims that members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) were responsible; these members have since been expelled by the group's leadership.

Now, amid calls for the arrest of the leader of Sinn Fein (the IRA's political wing), the IRA has announced that in private talks with the victim's family, it offered to shoot the men who were involved in McCartney's death.

The family politely declined:

"I think the feeling is that to shoot and possibly kill these people is revenge and not justice, and revenge is not what the family is looking for, the family is looking for justice," he [Mr McCartney's cousin Gerard Quinn] said.

Link to BBC article. Wikipedia entries: IRA, Sinn Fein