Sinn Féin has said the people of the Belfast Gaeltacht were “very disappointed” after a decision at City Hall to sign the area's streets in Irish was halted after a council 'call-in'.
Earlier this month Alliance and nationalist parties had bitter exchanges at Belfast City Council over a proposal to put up Irish language street signs across the whole of the West Belfast Gaeltacht Quarter.
Sinn Féin accused Alliance of “slowing down” the Irish language along with the DUP, after they opposed a proposal to treat the Gaeltacht as one bulk application, rather than go through the area street by street.
