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Language rights group calls on PSNI and government department to remove anti-Irish flags
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Irish News
An anti-Irish language slogan with Belfast City Council logo on a Union flag at the bottom of the Lisburn Road.
PICTURE: MAL MCCANNAn Irish language rights group has called on the PSNI and the Department for Infrastructure to act to ensure the “immediate” removal of offensive anti-Irish language flags in south Belfast.
The flags, which include a Belfast City Council logo, have been placed on lampposts on Belfast’s Lisburn Road, close to the city centre.
Irish language rights group Conradh na Gaeilge has described the flags as an “attempt to intimidate Irish speakers” and called on the police and the Stormont department to work together to have them removed urgently.
“There is no place in today’s society for displays of hate against the Irish language or for attacks on a public authority who promotes Irish.