US deport Armagh man who claimed he was terrorist

An Armagh man who claimed he was a terrorist on board a transatlantic flight will be deported from America, US authorities said today.

Aiden Mackle, 44, of Portadown, Co Armagh, was sentenced to 116 days in jail, time he has already served, for disrupting a flight from Atlanta, Georgia, to Dublin in the early hours of March 1.