Liam Neeson has made his first appearance in public with his two sons since his wife Natasha Richardson’s funeral in New York.

The Ballymena man went to see Liverpool play Fulham in London just over two weeks after his wife died from head injuries following a skiing accident.

The 56-year-old along with his two boys, 13-year-old Micheal and 12-year-old Daniel visited London’s Craven Cottage stadium on Saturday.

Dressed in a navy jacket and blue shirt he was also accompanied on the day out by his mother-in-law Vanessa Redgrave.

During the match Daniel Neeson held up a red Liverpool shirt while he witnessed his team beat Fulham 1-0.

The two boys were in Canada on a skiing holiday with their mother last month when she fell during a lesson.

This is the first time he has been spotted in public with his sons since his wife’s funeral.

He appeared briefly on Broadway, New York in March when the lights were dimmed in memory of his wife.

The grieving actor has completed work on his next movie Chloe, which he was filming when Natasha was injured on March 16 and died the next day.

It's not clear if Neeson will fit in a visit home to Northern Ireland so the boys can be with their paternal grandmother Kitty, who lives in Ballymena.

Last night he appeared in a film about a sectarian murder in Lurgan in 1975 which also starred Jimmy Nesbitt which was screened on BBC2.

The movie Five Minutes of Heaven was shot in Lurgan, Belfast, Glenarm and Newtownards.

Nesbitt said the news of Natasha's death was hard to take in.

“My heart goes out to Liam and his family. I feel shocked by the events and very much saddened for them all.”

Meanwhile, it has emerged that her family requested her organs be donated to patients in need after she was taken off life support at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital.