Orange mob held up funeral cortege for 10 hours, says undertaker

A CO Armagh undertaker has said an Orange mob blockading Belfast international airport held up a funeral cortege for 10 hours during the Drumcree stand off.

Mr Bernard O'Hanlon, a funeral director from Mullaghbawn, complained in a letter in yesterday's unionist News Letter that he and 16 relatives, including an elderly sister of the deceased, were "imprisoned by a mob of 1,500 Orangemen".

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