Funding for community project approved despite row over IRA men's names on gates

The DUP are furious that a council has voted to approve £180,000 of funding for a community project in the Glens despite a row over the names of two IRA men on the gates of the planned site. Last night Causeway Coast and Glens Council voted 19-18 in favour of allocating the money to help build a shared community space on the site. It followed a decision by Oisin Glenarrife hurling club to remove the gates in a vote by its members. The funding had previously been put on hold in June after DUP councillors objected to the gates at the ground. The party had said that the gates leading onto the site would "re-traumatise" people affected by terrorism. The gates carry the names of Charlie McAllister and Pat McVeigh, who were killed in 1922.