Moore to meet Ahern over his detention at port

FOLK legend Christy Moore will meet next week with Foreign Affairs minister Dermot Ahern to discuss the singer’s controversial two-hour detention in Holyhead, north Wales.

The department said yesterday it had been in direct contact with the songwriter. A spokesperson said the Irish Embassy in London had also raised his detention ordeal with the British authorities.

North Wales Police Force, in a brief statement yesterday, said it was not its policy to identify anyone questioned at Holyhead port.