Clinton visit ends in sour note

13 April 2012

Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary were jeered when they left Enniskillen without saying goodbye to a crowd of around 130 people who had gathered to see them today.

Crowds waited for around two hours outside the Clinton Centre for International Peace at the site of the IRA's Remembrance Day bomb blast in 1987 which killed 11 people.

However they were disappointed when the Clintons left the centre after spending an hour and a half meeting people involved in voluntary and youth work.

The crowd groaned as Senator Clinton and her husband's motorcade left the town without crossing the road to shake their hands.

Some members of the public managed to greet the Clintons when they arrived and obtained their signatures, but there were boos as the motorcade left Enniskillen.

"Don't come back," one teenager yelled.

The Clintons were carrying out their last engagement of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland.

They met Northern Ireland politicians yesterday in Belfast, urging them to take the final steps towards lasting devolution at talks next month involving Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Maidstone, Kent.

Mrs Clinton, the senator for New York, also took part in a conference of Women's leaders in Belfast before delivering a lecture at the University of Ulster's Magee College campus in Londonderry.

The former US President brought Belfast city centre to a standstill yesterday at a book signing of his autobiography, My Life.

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