Anti-Terror Police Arrest 14 People At Funeral

Anti-terror police have arrested 14 men during a raid at the funeral of a dissident republican in Northern Ireland.

Michael Barr was shot dead last month by two gunmen who burst into his pub, the Sunset House in Dublin.

The 35-year-old from Strabane, County Tyrone, was hit up to three times and died at the scene.

It is thought the shooting was linked to a gangland feud between the Kinahan and Hutch families and their associates.

It is not certain if Mr Barr was the intended target - or if a member of the Hutch family was in the pub at the time.

At the time of his death he was due to be sentenced for handling stolen electrical equipment,

He had admitted the offence at Finnstown House Hotel in Lucan, Dublin, where a bomb had been found in a car in May 2014.

Hundreds of people were at his funeral mass at St Mary's Church in the Melmount area of Strabane on Thursday morning.

It was just coming to an end when the police operation was launched.

Sky's Ireland Correspondent David Blevins said: "He was known to police because of previous involvement with dissident republicans.

"His funeral had a number of dissident republican trappings."

His coffin - his black beret and gloves placed on top - was draped in an Irish tricolor and flanked by men dressed in paramilitary-style uniform.

A spokesman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said the arrests were made under the Terrorism Act.