Calls for civility after pro-IRA chant is directed at Arlene Foster

The footage from the Local Women Business Awards in Belfast emerged on social media at the weekend.

Arlene Foster (Liam McBurney/PA)

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill has urged people to be civil in public discourse following an incident in which a woman chanted a pro-IRA slogan during an encounter with Dame Arlene Foster.

Ms O’Neill reacted following comments from former DUP leader Dame Arlene suggesting incidents like this had become normalised because republican leaders said there was no alternative to past IRA violence.