'Dead IRA' names may cost clubs; GAA.FUNDING for GAA clubs could be withdrawn if they adopt the names of dead paramilitaries, the Sports Minister warned yesterday. Nelson McCausland Nelson McCausland MLA is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland He was educated at Belfast Royal Academy, Worcester College, Oxford and Queen's University, Belfast. He is a former teacher and a member of the Belfast Education and Library Board. told the Assembly there was no place in sport for the naming of clubs, grounds or competitions after dead IRA men. The GAA is to investigate August's hunger strike hunger strike, refusal to eat as a protest against existing conditions. Although most often used by prisoners, others have also employed it. For example, Mohandas Gandhi in India and Cesar Chavez in California fasted as religious penance during otherwise political or commemoration at Galbally, Co Tyrone, after photos of people dressed in balaclavas carrying replica weapons were placed on the internet - although Sinn Fein disputes whether they were connected to the club. The DUPminister said: "Sport makes an important contribution to a shared and better future, one in which terrorism and sport cannot be mixed." |
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