President abandons Loyalist area visit

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese yesterday scrapped plans to visit a tense and troubled loyalist area of Belfast today.

Thu, 08 Sep, 2005 - 01:00
Dan McGinn and Paul O’Hare

As rival politicians clashed over her planned meeting with Northern Ireland chief constable Sir Hugh Orde, her office revealed a late change to her itinerary because of a new outbreak of violence in the Shankill Road area.

She had been due to meet staff and children at a primary school, but will now see them in another part of the city.

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