McAleese visits Belfast

President Mary McAleese was today making her first official visit to Belfast since apologising for controversial comments about anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland.

McAleese visits Belfast

President Mary McAleese was today making her first official visit to Belfast since apologising for controversial comments about anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland.

The Belfast-born President had to pull plans to visit a primary school on the loyalist Shankill Road after she compared the prejudice of Nazis against the Jews with those who raised their children to hate Catholics in Northern Ireland.

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