{"id":56923,"date":"2025-04-28T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/56923\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:58:10","slug":"tuv-lodges-formal-complaint-against-sinn-fein-council-chair-eugene-mcconnell-who-attended-commemoration-of-ira-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/56923\/","title":{"rendered":"TUV lodges formal complaint against\u00a0Sinn F\u00e9in council chair Eugene McConnell who\u00a0attended commemoration of IRA man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sinn Fein councillor Eugene McConnell alongside party leader Mary Lou McDonald next to a banner honouring Jim Lynagh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/103afead-ec89-4f08-9c9e-625c813759d3.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)\">Sinn Fein councillor Eugene McConnell alongside party leader Mary Lou McDonald next to a banner honouring Jim Lynagh<\/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 TUV has lodged a formal complaint against a Sinn Fein council chair who was pictured attending a commemoration event for IRA member Jim Lynagh earlier this month.<\/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)\">Eugene McConnell, the chair of Mid Ulster District Council, was pictured at the event standing behind a banner for \u2018Oglach Jim Lynagh Cumann, Clogher\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinn Fein councillor Eugene McConnell alongside party leader Mary Lou McDonald next to a banner honouring Jim Lynagh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6722,1144,11528,29956,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-56923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-christopher-leebody","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-sinn-fein","11":"tag-traditional-unionist-voice","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114414531763287172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56923","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=56923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}