Commemoration invite to UDA members inappropriate, says campaigner

A campaigner for victims of terrorism today said it was inappropriate for members of the Ulster Defence Association to be invited to a ceremony on Wednesday at which the Queen will lay a wreath in memory of Irish soldiers who died in the First World War.

Five senior members of the loyalist group, which declared a ceasefire in 2007 but is still on the Home Office’s list of proscribed terrorist groups, have been invited by President McAleese to attend the ceremony in Dublin.