Doherty: Government should not send Coveney to North for centenary of partition

Doherty: Government should not send Coveney to North for centenary of partition

Pearse Doherty says President Higgins was absolutely right in deciding not to attend that event. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty has said that the Government should not send the Foreign Affairs minister to a service to mark the centenary of partition in Northern Ireland organised by church leaders.

“President Higgins was absolutely right in deciding not to attend that event,” he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.

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