Gilmore 'disgusted' by dissident rally in the North

An Tanáiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore said he was "disgusted" by the Real IRA rally in Derry yesterday.

In the address at Creggan cemetery yesterday afternoon, the dissident group threatened to kill more PSNI officers in the North.

The group also described the Queen's visit to Ireland next month as an "insult".

The PSNI has launched an investigation.

Speaking in Dublin this afternoon, the Tanáiste attacked those behind the rally: "I'm absolutely disgusted by it. I think that the sight of somebody appearing in a mask and menacingly threatening Catholics who joined the PSNI , Nationalist who joined the PSNI; that they would be killed.

"Threatening the governments and threatening the people of this country.

"That is, that belongs to the past and that is the past."