Unionists furious at Maskey's election

Unionists are furious at the election of Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey as Mayor of Belfast and they turned their anger on the three members of the cross-community Alliance Party who supported him.

Defeated mayoral candidate Chris McGimpsey said: ‘‘This is a disgraceful decision, rewarding an organisation which has been involved in the destruction of Belfast over the past 30 years.