Young republicans protest at Magee
The Sinn Féin Society at the Magee campus of the University of Ulster held a protest yesterday against the presence of the British Army at a careers fair at the university.
Adrian Kelly, a spokesperson for the society said many students are opposed to the British Army attending the careers fair.
"We are shocked at the University's decision to again invite the British Armed Forces on to campus, particularly as this is the 3rd consecutive year students have protested at their presence. Their brutal involvement in Ireland, in particular carrying out the mass murder in Derry on Bloody Sunday, is just one of the reasons so many students are angry. This is to say nothing of the atrocities that are still happening on a daily basis in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“We also object to the way careers in the British Armed Forces are glamorised in advertisements and the media and portrayed as exciting to young people.” he said.
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