Ex-IRA prisoner Danny Morrison in U-turn on Queen’s trip
Former Sinn Fein publicity director Danny Morrison has performed an about-turn and admitted the Queen’s trip to Ireland was “a good visit”.
The ex-IRA prisoner, who referred to the monarch just before her arrival in Ireland as “the Queen of sheep”, said the visit had forced him to revise his opinion.
Morrison — who organised a protest march in Belfast in 1977 against a visit to Northern Ireland by the Queen — said her latest trip as “one of the high points of her reign”.
But the veteran republican, who shook the hand of Princes Charles during a chance meeting at the Glastonbury music festival in England, said: “I have had to change my opinion.
“I think that my judgment now has to be that it was a good visit.”
