A bilingual street sign in Shandon Park, east Belfast, was damaged with an angle grinder, in what police described as ‘hate motivated criminal damage’. Photograph: Stephen Davison/Pacemaker Press
A policy so bad it causes a sectarian argument in Shandon Park has achieved a whole new level of failure in Northern Ireland.
The tree-lined east Belfast street is the epitome of an affluent, liberal neighbourhood. Its larger houses sell for more than £600,000 (€689,000), putting them in the top 2 per cent of the northern property market. Yet it has suffered the indignity of appearing on front pages and news bulletins because someone has attacked its new bilingual street sign with an angle grinder, removing the Irish half.
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