Adams criticises northern visits from southern ministers

The Sinn Féin President, Gerry Adams, has contrasted a recent visit made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to south Down, where he was photographed with the SDLP candidate, Eddie McGrady, with his absence from the Short Strand Catholic enclave when it was under attack from loyalists.

Mr Adams claimed that the protocol was always that, although Southern politicians visited the North to help political parties, mainly the SDLP, ministers did not do so.