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McAleese visiting Belfast & Armagh today

Mary McAleese - Visits Belfast & Armagh
Mary McAleese - Visits Belfast & Armagh

President Mary McAleese has met representatives of families who have lost relatives during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

The President is visiting her native city, Belfast, and Co Armagh.

Ms McAleese met members of the Saver/Naver victims support group (South/North Armagh Victims Encouraging and Recognition).

The group featured this week in a report by an international panel of human rights lawyers and activists investigating security force collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.

The report revealed that a member of the international panel was told by members of Saver/Naver in Markethill about atrocities carried out against the unionist and Protestant community in their county.

The panel, which was commissioned by the Derry-based Pat Finucane Centre to look into collusion, said it would pass onto the Government concerns from Saver/Naver and other victims' groups about how the authorities had handled IRA fugitives from justice who fled over the border.

Ms McAleese first visited Dominican College in north Belfast and opened a conference organised by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People.

The President was also guest of honour at Queen's University Gaelic Football Club's 75th anniversary celebration this evening.