Representatives of the South Antrim GAA handed a letter for Hilary Benn in at Erskine House in Belfast city centre on Thursday.

The announcement came hours after a political opponent criticised him for arming unofficial groups of Palestinians in Gaza.

The Princess Royal has brought her charities together at a special Buckingham Palace forum after deciding it was the only way she wished to mark her forthcoming 75th birthday.

Search teams wound down the operation in Atalaia, near Lagos, Portugal, on Thursday, after three days of scouring scrubland and abandoned structures.