Army captain must salute queen, court rules

AN IRISH language campaigner has lost his battle to avoid the “institutional harassment” of a Canadian army pledge, which requires him to toast and salute Queen Elizabeth II.

Captain Aralt Mac Giolla Chainnigh objects to the Canadian army’s tradition to toast the British monarch and occasionally salute the song God Save the Queen.

The army captain had taken his grievances to Canada’s Federal Court, the equivalent of the Irish High Court, and Mr Justice Robert Barnes published its ruling on Monday.