{"id":273610,"date":"2025-07-19T02:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273610\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:42:18","slug":"gordon-lyons-dismisses-resignation-calls-over-larne-attack-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273610\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Lyons dismisses resignation calls over Larne attack Facebook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Justice Minister Naomi Long also criticised the communities minister, adding: &#8220;It may have been in the public domain, but by naming it, he actually elevated it and that is the responsibility that comes with being a public figure and a minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To say he wasn&#8217;t consulted, to me, is just an extraordinary statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SDLP&#8217;s Matthew O&#8217;Toole said he would refer Lyons to the standards commissioner over his comments, saying &#8220;lives are at stake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Committee for Communities passed a vote of no confidence in the minister on Thursday morning.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was tabled by Sinn F\u00e9in MLA Maol\u00edosa McHugh who said he proposed it as the minister had implied &#8220;that he or his party needs to be consulted before one considers the use of a council facility to accommodate people in total distress&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green Party councillor \u00c1ine Groogan accused the minister of choosing to &#8220;stir division and deflect from his own failures&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justice Minister Naomi Long also criticised the communities minister, adding: &#8220;It may have been in the public domain,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-273610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114877598727986095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273610","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=273610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}