{"id":178406,"date":"2025-06-12T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178406\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:46:12","slug":"larne-leisure-centre-communities-committee-expresses-no-confidence-in-gordon-lyons-over-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178406\/","title":{"rendered":"Larne Leisure Centre: Communities committee \u2018expresses\u00a0no confidence\u2019 in Gordon Lyons over social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The DUP Minister said his post was intended to \u2018defuse\u2019 tensions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Communities Minister Gordon Lyons faces being referred to an Assembly watchdog over a social media post about Larne Leisure Centre which was later attacked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/d37cc92c-5599-4197-a1b3-20e9b6759e02.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)\">Communities Minister Gordon Lyons faces being referred to an Assembly watchdog over a social media post about Larne Leisure Centre which was later attacked<\/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 Assembly communities committee \u201chas expressed no confidence\u201d in minister Gordon Lyons following controversy over comments made about Larne Leisure Centre housing individuals displaced by rioting.<\/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)\">Mr Lyons is facing a backlash over comments made on social media hours before the building was set alight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 The DUP Minister said his post was intended to \u2018defuse\u2019 tensions Communities Minister Gordon Lyons faces being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1211,924,42497,5816,12,73547,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-antrim-news","10":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","11":"tag-gordon-lyons","12":"tag-mid-and-east-antrim-borough-council","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-stephen-nolan","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114670468083521528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178406","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=178406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}