DUP and SDLP clash over plan with one councillor saying language associated with terrorists shouting 'tiocfaidh ár lá'
A Belfast City Council committee has given the go-ahead to the installation of more than 300 Irish language street signs at a cost of up to £170,000
Councillors were also recommended to agree a maximum budget of up to £170,000. Elected representatives voted in favour of the recommendations by 15 votes to five. All the unionist councillors in the chamber voted against the recommendations. “We have been asked to create a demarcation zone between people who wish to avail of Irish language signage, and those who don’t. If we don’t we will damage irreparably in my opinion community relations where they are already strained.
“I understood from the outset that the boundary for the Gaeltacht Quarter, when it came to interface communities, would be the white line in the centre of the road, so that there was a neutral zone between this particular Irish language sign area, and that where people didn't want anything to do with it.
SDLP Councillor Carl Whyte replied: “Last Friday morning I was on the radio with another councillor who told me about the Irish language being inflicted on people, being propagated. Really significant and poisonous language has been used to describe a language. “It is a deliberate tactic to stoke up anger and fear and resentment. We are seeing that the continued outworkings of this is the vandalisation of these signs, which police are now recording as hate crimes. That has to stop. Language has to be tempered.”
“Particular attention was taken along the agreed boundary, where streets continued through the boundary and on either side of the peace line wall and gates, to ensure letters were only delivered to properties within the boundary.
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