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Most Oppressed Festival Ever
The organisers of the inclusive West Belfast Festival and Sinn Fein have both criticised a government decision to award funding to the tune of £104,000 to the Orange Order over three years.
Despite the fact that they were awarded by different bodies, organisers of the republican festival said "questions had to be asked" that the Northern Ireland Events Company cut their funding for this year by £100,000 less than 2 weeks before the Orange Order funding was announced. What wasn't mentioned on the Newsline coverage at lunch time today was that the festival or 'Feile' was still receiving £45,000 this year - more than the annual equivalent of the Orange Order funding which works out at £34,000 per year. The Orange Order funding is also coming from the Deparment of Social Development.
The only question that has to be asked is why the Feile was attracting £150k of public money in a year in the first place!