Sinn Féin’s Easter Rising celebrations fall foul of DUP
14/04/2006 - 08:13:43The DUP has ridiculed Sinn Féin for holding an Easter commemoration at Stormont.
DUP MP Sammy Wilson said the mere fact that Stormont exists proves the Easter Rising failed 90 years ago.
Sinn Féin said Stormont was in fact a fitting venue, as successive Unionist governments had banned any Easter Rising commemorations throughout the North.
The party claimed that republicanism was flourishing on both sides of the border, despite attempts by unionists to suppress it.
Mr Wilson retorted that Stormont is the symbol of the North's Britishness and Sinn Féin's commemoration there would make the 1916 rebels "spin in their graves".
