Pub owner may be forced by law to remove 40-foot banner barring Queen

A PUBLICAN who erected a 40-foot long banner declaring Queen Elizabeth barred from his premises may be forced by law to take it down.

Dublin City Council said it would have an inspector investigate the elaborate protest banner hanging on the front of The Players Lounge on the city’s northside and would decide today what action to take.

In 2003 the council forced builder Mick Wallace, who is now a TD, to remove a banner protesting against the invasion of Iraq from one of his sites on the grounds that it was a political statement and so did not enjoy the relative freedom given to advertising banners.