Paramilitary songs may fall foul of new anti-terror law

Paramilitary songs and murals could be outlawed by the British government's new anti-terrorism laws, according to legal experts in the North.

The new legislation makes it a crime to glorify terrorism.

Bill Rolston, a professor of sociology who has written three books on political murals in the North, has already predicted that some of them could be deemed illegal.

Questions are also being asked about republican and loyalist songs referring to armalite assault weapons and wading knee-deep in Fenian blood.

Legal experts in Britain believe the new anti-terror law is so vague that it will have to be tested in the courts before its full powers are delineated.