GAA TOPS 'BANNED' Anger as loyalist posters warn villagers not to wear gaelic sports jerseys.

Byline: By NEVIN FARRELL

A FORMER All-Ireland camogie champion last night condemned anti-GAA posters put up in a village.

Residents in Ahoghill, Co Antrim, woke yesterday morning to find more than 30 placards declaring "No fascist GAA jerseys in Ahoghill" tied to lampposts and pasted to bus shelters.

Kathleen McCaughey, 51, who was forced out of her home in the mainly Protestant village after her grandson was seen wearing an Antrim GAA top, hit out at those intimating Catholics in the area.

She said: "My family had played hurley and camogie in the estate for years and Protestants used to come out and play with us too. These latest signs are only to keep the bother going in Ahoghill."

Sinn Fein Assembly member Philip McGuigan said he was "outraged and angry" after seeing the posters.

He added: "I have been contacted by nationalist residents in Ahoghill who have woken this morning to find posters erected warning people not to wear GAA jerseys in the town.

"It seems that this is the latest stage in the unionist campaign to force all Catholics and nationalists from the town. "

DUP Assemblyman Mervyn Storey also condemned the signs.

He said: "Any attempt to intimidate any section of the community isn't to be welcomed."

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FORCED OUT: Kathleen McCaughey