World-renowned travel guide removes content about Belfast murals after it was described as "highly inaccurate and offensive".

Jun 17, 2019, 11:09 AM

A world-renowned travel guide is to remove content about Belfast murals after it was described as "highly inaccurate and offensive". The content on Fodor's Travel website and in their books on Ireland, said nationalist murals "often aspire to the heights of Sistine Chapel-lite". It said loyalist murals "sometimes resemble war comics without the humour". So what do you make of the many political murals around Belfast? Commentator Newton Emerson says they are all 'embarrassingly bad' while Professor Peter Shirlow, who's head of Irish studies at Liverpool University, says murals are an important part of community.