Cathal Barry
Police in the North have launched an investigation after a pro-life campaigner claimed she was “pushed” by a Sinn Féin member at an Easter Rising commemoration.
According to The Irish News, Catherine Sewell said she and her husband Ryan were manhandled as they tried to distribute anti-abortion leaflets at the event in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, on Sunday, March 27.
Ms Sewell, a member of the Dungannon-based St Joseph’s Pro Life Group, claimed that a Sinn Féin steward told her and her husband they could not distribute the leaflets before pushing them.
Ms Sewell said she and her husband were placing leaflets on parked vehicles and handing them out to members of the public when they were approached by the man.
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The leaflets handed out included a Celtic cross and Irish tricolour and the words: “Never, ever give your vote to an Irish politician who advocates the killing of Irish children in the womb.”
Ms Sewell said she and her husband were left shaken.
“I have been putting out leaflets for years and I have never been physically assaulted. I always left on good terms, never anything like that,” she said.