Allister condemns behaviour of Rasharkin band
22 March 2011
Video on youtube shows the band stopping opposite a Protestant crowd and taunting them, with the bands supporters shouting IRA slogans. The band had to be told by the PSNI to move on, though otherwise the police response was very timid.
Commenting Jim Allister said, “The coat-trailing and provocative exercise in which the Rasharkin band and their supporters engaged was disgraceful. Both the police and the monitors from the Parades Commission should now be instigating action in respect of behaviour which was at least likely to provoke a breach of the peace.
“It seems that some republicans, not satisfied with imposing their intolerance and dogma on Rasharkin, now want to export it wherever they go. They brought discord and anti-Protestant hatred to Cookstown of which we’ve seen enough in Rasharkin.”
