Ulster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie MC, has described Sinn Fein complaints about an SAS flag flying in Loughgall as the height of hypocrisy.
Doug Beattie MC said:
"Sinn Fein and the republican movement may well see the flying of the SAS regimental flag as provocative - but what do they expect? Their recent overt commemoration of those heavily armed IRA men hell bent on committing murder in Loughgall thirty years ago, was extremely provocative.
“They set the conditions and now they are complaining about the backlash. They should think about these consequences before they celebrate terrorism. Anything else is the height of hypocrisy.
“Sinn Fein can organise as many commemorations to remember dead IRA men as they want. That is entirely up to them. What they cannot control however, is how the rest of society chooses to remember the IRA - as a criminal gang whose stock in trade was sectarian murder.”