Currie hits out at SF 'civil rights' march

Former Fine Gael TD Austin Currie has criticised Sinn Féin for recreating a famous civil rights march in the North.

Around 500 people attended the march between Dungannon and Coalisland on Saturday.

The march recreation was organised to highlight the cancellation of the Assembly elections which were due to go ahead in the North earlier this year.

Mr Currie, a founding member of the SDLP, accused Sinn Féin of "hypocrisy, opportunism and an attempt to rewrite history" by organising the march.

He said parallels could not be drawn between republicans linked to paramilitaries and the non-violent civil rights movement that staged the original march 35 years ago.