UDA ‘must take responsibility for tensions in estate’

THE Ulster Defence Association (UDA) must shoulder the responsibility for dealing with tensions within its community, Martin McGuinness said yesterday.

After a night of violence on a loyalist housing estate in Bangor, Co Down, resulted in police firing six plastic bullets, the Stormont deputy first minister and Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern expressed concern about the rioting, insisting it was unacceptable.

As they opened a cross-Border road link near Newry, Mr McGuinness said: “I think it is quite clear from the way events moved that it was organised.