IAIS: UNIONISTS REJECT McALEESE INVITATION Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source: J. Dana" Nov 3 1997 UNIONISTS REJECT McALEESE INVITATION 11/03/97 11:28 EST Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley today rejected a verbal invitation by new Irish president-elect Mary McAleese to attend her inauguration. Belfast academic McAleese said it would be "lovely" to have unionist leaders at the ceremony next Tuesday. Paisley said that if McAleese was serious about bridge-building between north and south, she would scrap the Republic's territorial claim over Northern Ireland in its constitution. The Ulster Unionist Party is also believed to be hostile to any invitation. __________________________________________________________ The Irish American Information Service is a non-profit organization provding up-to-the-minute objective coverage of news as it happens in Ireland and the North. Please visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.iais.org ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-11.06.97-17:26:11-16326