Statement by Jim Allister:
“I am disappointed by the decision of St Michael’s Diocesan Trust to reject the memorial to the Poppy Day Massacre. Having written to Monsignor O’Reilly back In November and having not yet received a reply I am not terribly surprised.
“It is telling that in the new Belfast Agreement Northern Ireland we have a play park named after a man arrested in possession of a gun used in the Kingsmills Massacre and countless memorials to IRA terrorists, none of which seek planning permission and are allowed to remain unmolested by land owners or the authorities yet we have a church refusing permission for this memorial.
“It seems the true “spirit of Enniskillen” is that the victims of the Remembrance Day Massacre cannot be remembered in the open nor can the IRA be named as their murderers.”