CANVASSING INCIDENT:THE SDLP has said it will not be intimidated from canvassing following a threat to shoot one of its Assembly members.
A masked man pointed a weapon at Upper Bann representative Dolores Kelly as she headed a team of European Parliament election canvassers in the republican Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan, Co Armagh, on Tuesday night.
“He had what seemed to be an air gun. He also threatened another member of my party and pointed the gun directly at his face,” she said. “Let me make this very clear to those people who think they can intimidate me or my party, they will not.
“This is an affront to democracy. I am proud to be an elected representative for this area and a young thug like that will not deter me from my work.”
She added: “The SDLP fought for civil rights and we will not let an incident like this keep us from helping the good people of Lurgan.”
Parties on all sides in the Assembly have strongly condemned the incident.