SF President calls for Govt intervention

The Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, says the Government has to step in after repeated violence across the peaceline in east Belfast.

Community leaders are struggling to find a way to stop nightly violence in the area.

Visiting the area, Gerry Adams claimed nationalist people feel abandoned.

He said he was seeking a meeting with the Ulster Unionist Party leader, David Trimble, and he also said that the Irish Government had a political responsibility to defend people at the receiving end of the violence, which he said was "intolerable".