Sinn Féin concerned over US visa waiver denial

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said today he was concerned at the refusal by the US State Department to grant a visa waiver to a senior party representative.

Mr McGuinness, the party's chief negotiator, said many members of the US Congress had protested to the US Special Envoy for Northern Ireland Mitchell Reiss, and the State Department, over the failure to grant access to Rita O'Hare.