Banner appears in play park hailing IRA hunger striker as a hero

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Thursday, 29 March 2018 06:28

By Hannah Spratt @Radio_han

By Hannah Spratt

There's been widespread condemnation after a banner describing an IRA hunger striker as a hero has appeared in a play park in Newry.

The sign, along with tricolours, has been erected at the Raymond McCreesh park - as a tribute to the hunger striker.

The name of the play park has been the subject of much debate - with a unionist motion to rename the site rejected last December.

Mr McCreesh was reportedly in possession of a rifle used in the Kingsmill Massacre, in which ten Protestant men were murdered.

He died on hunger strike in 1981.

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