{"id":478855,"date":"2025-10-06T20:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478855\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:20:19","slug":"unionist-councillors-absent-from-letter-condemning-loyalist-threats-over-ni-councils-irish-language-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478855\/","title":{"rendered":"Unionist councillors absent from letter condemning loyalist threats over NI council\u2019s Irish language policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">Loyalist paramilitaries have threatened to burn council facilities with Irish branding\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Councillors at Belfast City Hall have voted to introduce the new Irish language policy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9da69354-350d-4afe-b7c9-3d5352d830b3.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)\">Councillors at Belfast City Hall have voted to introduce the new Irish language policy<\/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)\">Unionist councillors have not signed a letter drafted by group leaders condemning loyalist threats to burn facilities carrying Irish language branding following a landmark council vote on Irish language policy.<\/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)\">Last week, Belfast City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/belfast-council-votes-in-favour-of-new-irish-language-policy-to-the-anger-of-unionists\/a1151250175.html?bcrFallback=bcrFallback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opted to introduce the new policy<\/a>, which will see wider use of the language across the city, including a bilingual logo being used on council uniforms and vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loyalist paramilitaries have threatened to burn council facilities with Irish branding Councillors at Belfast City Hall have voted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[5813,924,1300,1434,1144,29956,16,15719,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-478855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast-city-council","9":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","10":"tag-liam-tunney","11":"tag-michelle-oneill","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-traditional-unionist-voice","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-ulster-unionist-party","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115329081684593672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478855","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=478855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}