Shiels: One Freed - One Held

While police are continuing to question a 19-year-old man arrested in connection with the murder of Emmett Shiels in Londonderry last week, another 19-year-old man has been released without charge.

The teenager was being questioned about the fatal shooting at Bligh's Lane in the Creggan area of the city on Tuesday.

The funeral of Mr Sheils took place in Derry on Saturday.

He was buried at the City Cemetery following Requiem Mass at St Eugene's Cathedral.

Derry man and Deputy First Minister, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness also called on dissident republicans to listen to the voice of the people and "pack up and go away".

He told a republican commemoration in the city that dissident republicans must halt their "self-serving and destructive activities now".

Mr McGuinness said that the dissidents, suspected of murdering Mr Shiels, had reached a fork in the road and had a choice to make: "Choose the peaceful and democratic road to a united Ireland - which is open to them; or they can choose to go down some sort of quasi-military cul-de-sac.

"There is no room for grey areas any longer."

Referring to a vigil for Mr Shiels in Derry last week, Mr McGuinness said the activities of the "micro groups" must stop now.

"These groups should listen to the voice of the people, as was witnessed here on Tuesday night. Pack up and go away," he said.

At the funeral on Saturday of Mr Shiels, the 22-year-old pizza delivery man murdered in Derry's Creggan area in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Rev Michael Canny said: "Emmett's death has caused many in our community to speak of their revulsion. Others spoke of how they felt sickened.

"The communities in which we find ourselves living have come to forks in the road and pivotal moments many times in the past and will no doubt in the years ahead.

"A fork in the road implies that we have come to a place where we have a choice. We can choose to continue in the direction that we are going or take another way," added Mr Canny.

(BMcC)