Ann Travers, whose sister was murdered by the Provisional IRA during the Troubles, said she hopes that President Catherine Connolly can influence the woman who was convicted for her role in the killing to meet with her.
President Connolly offered to meet Travers after she wrote to her after being pictured with Mary McArdle who served 14 years in prison before being released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
President Connolly offered to meet Travers after she wrote to her following a photograph of President Connolly with Mary McArdle, the woman involved in Travers' sister's murder. McArdle served 14 years in prison before being released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
In a recent post on social media, Travers said that she hopes to meet the President next month.
Travers hopes that her meeting with the President will result in her meeting McArdle and getting answers for her sister's death.
"I just hope that by the end of it she understands the impact that we, that victims and survivors live with daily, and I really hope that she can maybe have some kind of perhaps influence on Mary McArdle to perhaps meet with me and give me the answers I so need," she said via RTE.
According to reports, Travers has asked McArdle to meet with her, however she has refused. Travers hopes that President Connolly will have some influence on McArdle.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Sharon Tobin, Travers stated that McArdle took guns from the two gunmen who attacked her parents and sister.
Speaking on the recent photograph that captured President Connolly alongside McArdle, Travers said that "whenever I just saw them there smiling together, the fact that it was outside a women's centre on the Falls Road, which I'm sure is there to help women through all sorts... who've had violence projected onto them."
Travers recounted the day of her sisters murder, she said that her father saw a man waving his hand under a newspaper and when he asked him what he wanted, the man said it was him that they wanted.
"Simultaneously Mary turned around and faced Dad and said 'Daddy that man has a gun'," Traver said.
Traver's sister was shot and fell down into her mums arms before her father was shot six times, according to a recent RTE report. Her father survived the attack.
