Clintons booed after failing to greet crowd in Enniskillen

Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, were booed after they left Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, today without greeting a crowd that had gathered to meet them.

Around 130 people waited for two hours outside the Clinton Centre for International Peace, which is located at the site of the IRA’s 1987 Remembrance Day bombing which killed 11 people.

However, the Clintons left the centre without greeting the crowd, sparking boos and jeers. “Don’t come back,” one teenager yelled.

The crowd groaned as Senator Clinton and her husband’s motorcade left the town without crossing the road to shake their hands.

Some members of the public managed to greet the Clintons when they arrived and obtained their signatures, but there were boos as the motorcade left Enniskillen.

The Clintons were carrying out their last engagement of their two-day visit to the North.

They met Northern Ireland politicians yesterday in Belfast, urging them to take the final steps towards lasting devolution at talks next month involving Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern in Maidstone, Kent.

Mrs Clinton, the senator for New York, also took part in a conference of Women’s leaders in Belfast before delivering a lecture at the University of Ulster’s Magee College campus in Derry.

The former US President brought Belfast city centre to a standstill yesterday at a book signing of his autobiography, My Life.