Submitting.
Letter to the editor
It was termed a ‘Republican Shrine’ for maximum emotional impact yet it could have been equally used to illustrate the heinous crimes of some of the hunger strikers and also allow the victims’ narrative to be told. It would have had enormous tourism potential.
What they have achieved now is the creation of a stadium only slightly smaller than the original Maze model in the midst of a republican area in West Belfast on the very site which has the propensity to become shrine to the vile mob which brutally murdered the two army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes there on March 19 1988.