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Michael Kenwood

Belfast council to look at spending £56,000 on Irish street signs for whole of Gaeltacht Quarter

Sinn Féin have proposed Belfast Council spends over £50,000 to put up Irish language street signs across the whole of the West Belfast Gaeltacht Quarter.

Councillors from the party argued this week at City Hall that the move would save money and time in the context of a huge backlog of applications for Irish street signs in Belfast, mostly coming from the Gaeltacht.

Last month, a report into Belfast council’s processing of new Irish street signs was commissioned after it emerged not one new sign has been made since the council changed its policy.

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