Belfast Council has agreed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the UDR Greenfinches, amidst sharp exchanges between nationalists and unionists at City Hall.
At the monthly meeting of the full Belfast City Council on Monday, the chamber on a slim majority went with a DUP motion to commemorate the anniversary.
The motion, forwarded by Councillor Sarah Bunting, states that the council “recognises the 50th Anniversary of Greenfinches in Northern Ireland, (and) remembers that on July 6th 1973 the Ulster Defence Regiment Bill permitted the recruitment of women into the Ulster Defence Regiment.”
