Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“The climbdown by the Dublin Government over commemorating the RIC is a telling signal to Unionists as to how they and their history would be treated in an all-Ireland.
“If a predominantly Roman Catholic state police force from the South is so vilified by republican agitators, in a supposedly enlightened and modern state, that its government toadies to such bigotry, we can all imagine how Unionist culture and traditions would fare in such a republican utopia!”