Mary White (Fianna Fail)

-----Historical Enquiries Team to review all conflict-related deaths and to assist in bringing resolution to those families of victims affected by deaths attributable to the Troubles between 1968 and the advent of the British-Irish Agreement in 1998. Two weeks ago, the family of Henry Cunningham met the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Martin, to discuss his murder 35 years ago this August. Henry Cunningham, who was 16 years old, was shot dead as he travelled home from work in County Antrim in August 1973. Gunmen opened fire from a bridge on the M2 motorway at a van carrying a mixed group of workmen back to County Donegal and Henry, who was sitting in the front row, was shot dead. The men had been travelling on the same route for three months and it is thought the van was targeted by the UVF because of its southern number plates and that the killers presumed the workmen were Catholic. In fact, the van's occupants were a mixed group of Presbyterians and Catholics and the 16 year old victim, Henry Cunningham, was a Presbyterian.