Criminal Damage at Dunloy Orange Hall
14 July 2011
TUV Leader Jim Allister MLA has labelled the painting of IRA slogans on Dunloy Orange Hall on 12th July, while the Lodge members were at the demonstration in Ballycastle, as "the latest outpouring of republican bile against the local Protestant community."In a statement Mr Allister said, "The fact this graffiti attack took place in broad daylight on 12th July means local residents know those responsible and their failure to call the police or cooperate in bringing them to justice itself shows support for this latest attack on the Orange tradition in the Dunloy area. It is also notable that the slogans used proclaimed support for the IRA, not dissidents, indicating that the supposed IRA/Sinn Fein talk of equality and a shared future is utterly bogus. It's still the same intolerant belligerence which shapes the republican mind.
"Choosing the very time when the Orangemen were celebrating the Twelfth to commit this hate crime and besmirch the hall with their IRA slogans, was itself an attempt to proclaim who rules in Dunloy."
