Loyalist campaigner Willie Frazer has confirmed that the planned Love Ulster march will not go ahead in Dublin next Saturday.

Mr Frazer said he has received assurances from government officials that information will be provided to the inquest into the Kingsmill massacre in which ten Protestant workmen were shot dead in 1976.

But Mr Frazer said that if this commitment was not honoured then another, bigger march would be held in Dublin at a later date.

He said a preliminary hearing of the inquest will be held in Belfast on 27 March and that officials from the Departments of Justice and Foreign Affairs had promised that information from garda files would be sent to the coroner before then.

"We have asked them nothing more than what they had promised to do" said Mr Frazer who added "the last thing we need is to be down in Dublin under these circumstances".

Mr Frazer had planned a march in Dublin for this Saturday with three loyalist bands and a total of up to 300 people.

The last Love Ulster parade caused a riot in Dublin city centre in 2006 when anti-loyalist protesters attacked gardaí.

The Department of Justice confirmed that a meeting took place with Mr Frazer and other representatives of Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (FAIR) in Dublin on 16 March.

In a statement a spokesperson described the meeting about victims’ issues as "useful" but would not give details of the discussion.