Ban Plastic Bullets Anois!

The newly emerged South/East Belfast Ógra Shinn Féin have called for an immediate ban on plastic bullets. The republican youth movement which will be officially launched next month has called for a ban on the lethal weapons which have been used to deadly effect in the past, killing 17 people, including 9 children and where deployed recently in the Shortstrand by the PSNI.

Graffiti in support of Ógra Shinn Féin’s call has sprung up on the now dormant, former PSNI Mountpottinger Barracks.



South/East Belfast Ógra Shinn Féin spokesperson Padraig Keenan said,

“We are calling for an immediate ban to plastic bullets; these lethal weapons have killed children in the past and should not have been used in the Strand at the beginning of the month. It was irresponsible and dangerous, it was wrong. We will be campaigning on this issue until these weapons become a thing of the past.”