Officials wait to see ‘mistaken Real IRA suspect’

BRITISH officials have been waiting for more than two days for access to a Belfast man who it is believed was wrongly identified as a dissident republican bomb maker and arrested in the Middle East.

As the family of Sean O’Muireagain continued their anxious wait for news last night, the British Embassy claimed its officials first asked for access to the 42-year-old “over the weekend”.

Mr O’Muireagain, a freelance journalist and well-known Irish language activist, was arrested on Saturday afternoon after being stopped at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah.