Ballymoney Ulster Unionist Councillor Darryl Wilson has condemned as a political stunt, an event which Sinn Fein held in the Mayor’s parlour of the Causeway Coast & Glens Council.
Councillor Darryl Wilson said:
“I am aware of an event held at the offices of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council facilitated by the Sinn Fein Mayor, supposedly to commemorate the failed uprising of Easter 1916.
“It is my understanding that a Mayor should not use their position to promote any political message and I have contacted senior officials within Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council to make a formal complaint and to enquire as to why this event was allowed to take place.
“I am also aware that one of the speakers referred to ‘the memory of our patriot dead across Counties Derry and Antrim’ and how ‘Their ultimate sacrifice continues to inspire us daily on our path to Irish Unity.’
“That is not referring to the dead of 1916 who were nowhere to be seen in counties Londonderry and Antrim. The people of Coleraine and the surrounding areas are only too well aware of the murderous and criminal deeds of the type of republican ‘patriots’ which Sinn Fein are so fond of eulogising.
“The IRA bombed Coleraine in 1973 murdering six pensioners and injuring 33 people. In 1992 the bombers returned and levelled the town centre. They were also responsible for the murders of policemen, UDR men and civilians within the local area. We have not forgotten nor will we ever forget the pain and suffering unleashed by the type of criminals that Sinn Fein want to portray as heroes as they seek to rewrite history.”