Avon and Somerset Police have confirmed that their investigation into Kneecap's performance at this summer's Glastonbury festival has been closed, and that no action is to be taken against the Belfast/Derry hip-hop trio.
The rap group's appearance on the festival's West Holts stage was the subject of much advance discussion, following their much-talked-about and controversial sets at Coachella festival earlier this year, and rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara, subsequently being charged with an (unconnected) terrorism offence in the UK.
Ó hAnnaidh, 27, is accused of displaying a flag representing Hezbollah “in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that he is a supporter of a proscribed organisation”, at a show at London's Kentish Town Forum last November. He is currently on unconditional bail, with his next court hearing at London's Westminster Magistrates Court set for August 20.
In the weeks leading up to the controversial Irish band's June 28 appearance at the UK's biggest and best-known music festival, a number of British politicians publicly called for the trio to be removed from the bill, while a group of US/UK music industry executives signed a private letter to the Eavis family requesting the same thing,
