The DUP has been accused of electioneering before May’s council elections after proposing a UDR commemoration at Belfast City Hall.
There were sharp exchanges between elected representatives this week at the Belfast City Council Standards and Business Committee meeting after the DUP forwarded a motion about the 50th anniversary of the Greenfinches in Northern Ireland.
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”.
