Coleraine bomb 50 years on: 'We need to consider victims here' says Sinn Fein man behind bloodbath
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He said he is in England at the minute, working.
Asked if he wanted to say anything about the bombings, 50 years on, he referred the News Letter to comments he had made in the local press recently, adding: "I've nothing further to say."
The comments councillor McGlinchey appears to be referring to articles in the Northern Constitution and Belfast Telegraph centred on a claim by him that he was recently invited to the deathbed of a survivor of the bombings.
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David Gilmour had been 10 at the time of the atrocity, and died last year of cancer.
The Northern Constitution article this week quoted councillor McGlinchey as saying: "I got a phone call from the Macmillan Unit in Antrim.
"We had a very moving conversation and he asked if I would come and meet him.
"I said: 'Why wouldn't I?' I was very touched.
"We had a conversation for about an hour. He said he didn't think I'd come, but he was very grateful that I did."
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Hide AdCouncillor Russell Watton's theory about the perpetrators of the Coleraine bombings - including the idea that at least one of those who planted the fatal device had fled to America and escaped justice - was put to councillor McGlinchey.
"I'm not prepared to get into that there, 'cause there's victims here," he told the News Letter.
"All I'm concerned about is it's the 50th anniversary coming up. That's for further discussion. Again, I don't want to get into that."
Is he sorry for joining the IRA?
"I've made it very clear... I'm not prepared to elaborate more at this stage."
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Hide AdIs he prepared to tell the police who the other plotters were?
"Again, this is victims here. I'm not going to get caught up in the media thing. There's victims here, it's the 50th anniversary, and if the PSNI want to interview me further, they know where I'm at."