McAleese to visit Ardoyne
THE RECENTLY ELECTED President of Ireland, Belfast born Mary
McAleese, is to visit Ardoyne in North Belfast on Friday 5
December. And according to sources in the area, close to where
McAleese used to live, local republicans are among those
officially invited to meet McAleese in the Brookfield Mill.
Local republicans who are to be present during McAleese's two
hour visit to the sprawling business complex on the Crumlin Road
intend to set up a stall to highlight the conditions of
republican prisoners.
Said one, ``we have commissioned murals depicting the plight of
Roisin McAliskey who is facing into her second year of
imprisonment and her young daughter Loinnir who is to spend her
first Christmas in a British jail, as well as the situation of
those five republican prisoners who have spent over 22 years in
jail''.
It is thought McAleese will visit the home on Belfast's Upper
Crumlin Road that was attacked by loyalists in the early 70s and
go on a general tour of the North Belfast area.