Anger over £1 million ratepayer grant for ‘Gaddafi-IRA’ museum

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5 Jan, 2020 All the news, half the price. Save 50% on a digital subscription to the News Letter!    Find out more → Anger over £1 million ratepayer grant for 'Gaddafi-IRA' museum Unionists on Belfast City Council have expressed shock that the authority has ring fenced £1m for a republican museum with "obscene" exhibits such as a soldier's rifle from an IRA bombing and a pair of Colonel Gaddafi's shoes. Latest News Police investigating sudden death in Carrickfergus An investigation has been launched following the sudden death of a man in Carrickfergus on Saturday night. Senator Mark Daly is burying his head in sand about the hatred that republicans have towards Protestants and unionists Your article of January 3 ('Irish senator: Funding for loyalist communities will stop violence in united Ireland') says funding for loyalist communities could stop violence in united Ireland. Doug Beattie: PSNI must remove soldier's rifle, mangled by IRA bomb, from republican museum The PSNI must confiscate a British soldier's rifle reportedly taken from the scene of an IRA atrocity and now on show in a republican museum in west Belfast, an MLA has said. Sport Update HOW IT HAPPENED: Cliftonville 6 Hanover 0 Cliftonville secured progress into the Irish Cup sixth round with a 6-0 success that confirmed the gulf between the current Danske Bank Premiership leaders and Mid-Ulster League-based Hanover, the lowest-ranked side in the draw. Furious Institute manager Sean Connor puts Niall Grace on the transfer list Institute's Niall Grace looks set to have played his last game for the club after manager Sean Connor confirmed that he has placed him on the transfer list. And finally... Anger over council's £1 million grant for 'Gaddafi-IRA' museum Unionists on Belfast City Council have expressed shock that the authority has ring fenced £1m for a republican museum with "obscene" exhibits such as a soldier's rifle from an IRA bombing and a pair of Colonel Gaddafi's shoes. See all the day's news here

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