Security Tight for Irish Court Hearing
More than 400 extra police will be on duty in an Irish border village for today’s court appearance of a Northern Ireland Protestant politician on assault charges.
A top-ranking officer from Dublin police headquarters will be coordinating the security operation when Peter Robinson, deputy leader of the Rev. Ian Paisley’s hard-line Democratic Unionist Party, faces a hearing in Ballybay.
Robinson was arrested in August when a group of northern Protestants staged a raid across the border to highlight their claims of poor security on the southern side and clashed with an Irish Republic police patrol.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
