Belfast City Council’s double standards over naming of IRA

A letter from Alan Ritchie:

Recently, Belfast City Council could not run a 50th anniversary commemoration event naming the organisation — the Provisional IRA — which murdered citizens of the city on Bloody Friday.

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Letter to the editor

Is this the same council which can and has funded the West Belfast Festival at which chants in support of this terrorist organisation have become a regular feature?

No double standards there then?

Alan Ritchie, Belfast

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