LONDON: Irish author Sally Rooney said she was unable to enter the UK this week to collect a Sky Arts Award for literature because she feared she would be arrested over her support for Palestine Action, an activist group recently banned by the UK government under terrorism legislation.

The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony

The group, founded in 2020, was banned in July by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, after claiming responsibility for £7million worth of damage to two Voyager plans at RAF Brize…