Audio interview with Mervyn Jones (Alliance Party Victoria councillor on Belfast City Council), Ian McLaughlin (community worker with Lower Shankill Community Association) and Jim McVeigh (Sinn Fein Lower Falls councillor on Belfast City Council) by Stephen Nolan for BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show on 29 November 2013. During previous weeks both Union and Tricolour flags were illegally erected at Belfast City Council depots causing intimidation to some staff working at the sites. The incidents occurred almost one year to the day when Belfast City Council voted to only fly the Union flag over Belfast City Hall on designated days and the flag protests which followed. Jones, McLaughlin and McVeigh discuss the sensitivities surrounding the flag issue. The Nolan Show is a daily current affairs programme on BBC Radio Ulster.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 29 November 2013
Name of First Interviewee: Mervyn Jones
Role at time of Interview: Mervyn Jones (Alliance Party Victoria councillor on Belfast City Council), Ian McLaughlin (Community worker with Lower Shankill Community Association), Jim McVeigh (Sinn Fein Lower Falls councillor on Belfast City Council)
Interviewer: Stephen Nolan
Purpose: News
Media: Audio
Copyright: BBC © 2013
Link: Listen to the interviewProgramme/Book/Article: BBC Radio Ulster The Nolan Show
Time Period covered: 2012-2013
Key Individuals: Mervyn Jones, Ian McLaughlin, Jim McVeigh, Maire Hendron
Key Words: Alliance Party, Sinn Fein, flag