DUP leader Foster set for surprise invite to papal Mass in Park

Foster has been making high-profile overtures towards the nationalist community in recent months, most notably her visit to the Ulster senior football final where her native county of Fermanagh were beaten by Donegal

DUP leader Arlene Foster will be invited to follow up her trip to the Ulster football final, her celebration of Ramadan, and her commemoration of the North’s LGBT community by attending Pope Francis’s Mass in the Phoenix Park this month.

According to the Taoiseach’s department, “invites have not yet issued but it is intended to invite all Northern Irish party leaders”.

The Pope will arrive in Ireland on Saturday, August 25, for the ...