SF policing motion will be backed

AN overwhelming majority of the 2,000 Sinn Féin supporters attending the party’s extraordinary árd fheis tomorrow will, most likely, back support for policing in the North.

The party leadership has been buoyed by a series of meetings it has held over the past week, in which its stance was strongly endorsed by its supporters.

The latest, held in Derry, attracted more than 1,000 people who loudly applauded leader Gerry Adams when he said if the party supported policing, it would be to “put manners” on the PSNI.