Irish former PM asked to apologise for ‘ghettoes’ claim

Bertie Ahern's comments about loyalists criticised by DUP MP as demeaning and degrading'

The former prime minister of Ireland and one of the architects of the 1998 peace accord in Northern Ireland has been urged to apologise after claiming loyalists in ghettoes" did not have a clue about the Brexit protocol.

Bertie Ahern said people in east Belfast and the ghettoes and the areas where you are likely to get trouble" had mischaracterised the special arrangements in the Brexit deal and saw it as pathway to a united Ireland.