Clinton to be honoured in the North

Ex-President Clinton is in Belfast this evening for the last round of his engagements before leaving Ireland.

This evening, President Clinton will be given an honorary law degree at Queens University Belfast and attend a gala concert in the Waterfront Hall.

He spent today in Omagh and Enniskillen, meeting relatives of the bereaved of the two bombings.

President Clinton's schedule on these visits is carefully tailored to be even handed in his treatment of the two communities.

Yesterday he was in Derry talking to a mainly nationalist crowd.

Today he spent the morning in Omagh, privately meeting survivors and relatives of those killed in bombing, before leaving for Enniskillen.

There he inaugurated a peace centre named after him and met relatives of the 1987 bombing, including Joan Wilson, whose daughter, Marie, a nurse, was one of the dead.

She said it was clear he had a deep sympathy for the bereaved.