Loyalist concerns cannot be dismissed as ‘nonsense’, Arlene Foster says

People stand next to a fire in a street in Belfast during further unrest. Picture date: Wednesday April 7, 2021.

Loyalist concerns that the peace process has only delivered for the nationalist community in Northern Ireland must be both listened to and challenged, the First Minister has said.

Arlene Foster said some of the claims she had heard about politics failing loyalism were not true, but she acknowledged they were still “very strongly held perceptions”.