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Mayor Condemns Cenotaph Attack

Published: 18 November, 2008

Sinn Féin Mayor of Armagh City and District Council, Noel Sheridan has condemned the attack on the cenotaph on the Mall in Armagh.

Cllr. Sheridan said

"This unwarranted attack must be condemned by everyone in the Armagh City and District area, to carry out such an attack is wrong but to do so on a monument which commemorates the dead can have no justification."

"I have seen that the granite of plinth has cracked due to the heat, where the poppy wreaths laid in remembrance, had been set alight after a flammable liquid had been thrown on them"

"Such acts do nothing to improve community relations in this city and I would urge anyone with relevant information to contact the PSNI and help stop any further such attacks"