Framed portraits of Sinn Fein's Daniel Baker and John Finucane were unveiled at Belfast City Hall to mark their terms as lord mayor
A portrait of a Sinn Fein former Belfast lord mayor has been branded "disgraceful" by unionists for including an image of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.
Sands, the IRA's leader in the Maze prison near Lisburn, was the first of 10 hunger strikers to die during a republican protest in the facility in 1981. "We need to do something about it. We allowed outgoing lord mayors to make the decision on what sort of a portrait we are going to have, but now I think we need to look at this very carefully and maybe set out a protocol for it in the future," he told the BBC's Nolan Show.
He added: "My mum passed away just before I became mayor and never got to experience this with me but thanks to local Colin artist, Tony Bell, my mum will be with me as a part of city hall history forever."
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