{"id":530993,"date":"2025-10-27T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/530993\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:35:15","slug":"watch-half-of-public-want-belfast-city-airport-to-keep-george-bests-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/530993\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Half of public want Belfast City Airport to keep George Best\u2019s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761564915_433_video.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)\">Watch: Half of public want Belfast City Airport to keep George Best\u2019s name<\/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)\">People are deeply divided over Belfast City Airport continuing to be named after George Best, according to a new poll. Half of those surveyed want the late footballer\u2019s name to stay, but nearly four in 10 say it should be dropped. There is stronger support among unionists for the link to remain, the LucidTalk survey for the Belfast Telegraph suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch: Half of public want Belfast City Airport to keep George Best\u2019s name People are deeply divided over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[172067,18463,1144,172068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-530993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-george-best","9":"tag-george-best-belfast-city-airport","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-olivia-peden","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115445926050704702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530993","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=530993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}