Three due in court over NI feud

Three men are due in court in Belfast tomorrow in connection with a loyalist feud in Carrickfergus in which a police officer …

Three men are due in court in Belfast tomorrow in connection with a loyalist feud in Carrickfergus in which a police officer shot at the weekend.

The men, aged 34, 36 and 40, are to be charged with having in their possession articles for use in terrorism. A part-time policeman intervened in a stand-off between 150 people at Castlemara Drive, Carrickfergus, on Saturday night, and was shot in the back.

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