'Lonely heart' jibe dismissed by unionist officer

Criticisms by a senior Ulster Unionist of former colleagues who defected to the rival DUP were dismissed as “irrelevant” today.

Fermanagh and South Tyrone Assembly member Arlene Foster, who defected to the Democratic Unionists in January, rejected claims by Michael McGimpsey that her pleas for other people to join read like “a lonely hearts advert”.