Thursday, 27 February 2025Unknown Session

EDM 861: Tribute banner to Brendan McFarlane at Celtic Football Club

5 total sponsorsTabled

Motion Text

That this House notes the display at a recent football match played at a Celtic Football Club home game in Glasgow where a banner was displayed by some fans which declared the recently deceased IRA terrorist Brendan McFarlane as a hero; draws attention to the facts that McFarlane was convicted in 1976 for his role in an attack on the Bayardo Bar in a Unionist area of Belfast, where five people were murdered and sixty others injured, and even after his release he resumed his terrorist activities; also deplores the fact that a Professor at the University of Glasgow shared the display on social media; calls upon Glasgow Celtic Football Club and the University of Glasgow to take action, as failure to do so will mean a belief in wider society that both institutions are content to be associated with a tribute to a sectarian terrorist who was deeply involved in multiple murders.

Sponsors (4 total)

Primary Sponsor
Mr Gregory Campbell

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)

#2
Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)

#3
Gavin Robinson

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)

#4
Carla Lockhart

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)

Details

UIN
861
Date Tabled
27/02/2025
Total Sponsors
5
Status
Tabled