Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party), on Thursday, 27 February 2025, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 4 members in total.

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Tribute banner to Brendan McFarlane at Celtic Football Club

That this House notes the display at a recent football match played at a Celtic Football Club home game in Glasgow where a banner was displayed by some fans which declared the recently deceased IRA terrorist Brendan McFarlane as a hero; draws attention to the facts that McFarlane was convicted in 1976 for his role in an attack on the Bayardo Bar in a Unionist area of Belfast, where five people were murdered and sixty others injured, and even after his release he resumed his terrorist activities; also deplores the fact that a Professor at the University of Glasgow shared the display on social media; calls upon Glasgow Celtic Football Club and the University of Glasgow to take action, as failure to do so will mean a belief in wider society that both institutions are content to be associated with a tribute to a sectarian terrorist who was deeply involved in multiple murders.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

861 

Session

2024-26

Other sponsors

Carla Lockhart

Jim Shannon

Gavin Robinson

Subjects

IRA University of Glasgow Terrorism McFarlane, Brendan Celtic Football Club

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk