{"id":117543,"date":"2025-10-12T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117543\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:49:07","slug":"hate-motivated-damage-to-irish-language-street-sign-in-belfast-condemned-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117543\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hate-motivated\u2019 damage to Irish language street sign in Belfast condemned \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHate-motivated\u201d damage to a street sign with Irish on it in east Belfast has been condemned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A white sign to Shandon Park was cut with an angle grinder to remove the Irish language translation at around 8.15pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sinn-fein\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sinn-fein\/\">Sinn F\u00e9in<\/a> councillor Padraig Donnelly condemned the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis was a disgraceful act of vandalism designed to stoke division and intolerance,\u201d Mr Donnelly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThere is nothing to fear from the Irish language, or indeed from equality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe rights of Irish language speakers must be respected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Police have asked anyone with information about the incident to contact them on 101, quoting 129811\/10\/25, or through the online PSNI non-emergency form. Information can also be passed to Crimestoppers. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHate-motivated\u201d damage to a street sign with Irish on it in east Belfast has been condemned. A white&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,954,952,47,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-117543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-northern-ireland","19":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","20":"tag-sinn-fein","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}