{"id":1374,"date":"2025-04-02T06:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1374\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T06:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:16:13","slug":"belfast-central-station-mla-asks-if-dup-set-for-another-crocodile-moment-over-irish-language-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1374\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Central Station: MLA asks if DUP set for \u2018another crocodile moment\u2019 over Irish language signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Belfast Grand Central Station opened last year (Rebecca Black\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/38a8c4a7-93ed-4360-8e68-db743ff5cf09.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Belfast Grand Central Station opened last year (Rebecca Black\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An MLA has queried whether the DUP is manufacturing \u201canother crocodile moment\u201d after the unionist party toughened its stance against Irish language signs in Belfast\u2019s Grand Central Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The SDLP&#8217;s Sinead McLaughlin was referring to a controversial statement by Arlene Foster in 2017, after DUP deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said yesterday that questions about the decision to install the signs are legitimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belfast Grand Central Station opened last year (Rebecca Black\/PA) An MLA has queried whether the DUP is manufacturing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[924,922,926,12,925,923,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-1374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","10":"tag-emma-little-pengelly","11":"tag-grand-central-station","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sdlp","14":"tag-sinead-mclaughlin","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114266910530043034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}