Adams drops US fundraising trip after visa restrictions

SINN Féin leader Gerry Adams last night denounced as “amateurish” restrictions placed on him by the US State Department on a visa to travel to New York this week.

He dropped plans to take part in a fundraising dinner for his party because he claimed the US government was imposing restrictions on him in a bid to force Sinn Fein to endorse current policing structures in Northern Ireland.

But he will fulfil a visit to Toronto on Saturday which had been planned to end a brief North American tour.