Emma deSouza: Condemning symbols of sectarianism is to ignore the problems beneath
A person walks past Irish language rap group Kneecap's mural of a burning police Land Rover, on Hawthorn Street in Belfast. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA
Yet again, Northern Ireland is in the spotlight for a grim spate of sectarian incidents and the glorification of paramilitaries on both sides of the traditional ‘divide’.
From teenagers chanting “Up the ‘Ra” to loyalist paramilitary flags being sold on a footpath in Derry, politicians were out in force with words of condemnation — albeit at times employing a selectivity as to which incident to condemn.
