{"id":460010,"date":"2025-09-29T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460010\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:56:13","slug":"irish-street-signs-in-belfast-figures-of-support-revealed-as-just-12-got-majority-backing-of-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460010\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish street signs in Belfast: Figures of support revealed as just 12% got majority backing of residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revealed\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\">\u2018Best practice\u2019 policy branded \u2018anti-democratic\u2019 by DUP after controversial changes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Since the rules were changed in 2022, 228 streets have been approved for dual language signage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ba694aa3-3b44-46c6-b14b-0256e754987f.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)\">Since the rules were changed in 2022, 228 streets have been approved for dual language signage<\/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)\">Just one in eight Irish street signs approved in Belfast since a controversial council policy came into force were supported by 50% or more of residents of the street.<\/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)\">In many cases, most residents didn\u2019t even respond to surveys to gauge support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revealed\u00a0|\u00a0 \u2018Best practice\u2019 policy branded \u2018anti-democratic\u2019 by DUP after controversial changes Since the rules were changed in 2022,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6571,5813,924,1144,11528,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-460010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-andrew-madden","9":"tag-belfast-city-council","10":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-sinn-fein","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115286755892937990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460010","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=460010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}