TD joins North campaigner on election trail

AN outspoken opponent of paramilitary street violence took his Westminster election message to the heart of loyalist Belfast yesterday — flanked by a Dáil deputy.

Liam Kennedy, an independent candidate standing against Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in the British general election is locked in a censorship row over gruesome campaign posters. But even though an advertising company refused to display billboard images portraying a so-called punishment beating, the economic history professor laid out his depiction of savagery at the gates of City Hall in Belfast.

Declaring that the public should have the right to decide on its content, Mr Kennedy then headed for the fiercely Protestant Shankill Road.