The Carnival will go on

Irene Sherry

Irene Sherry of the St Patrick's Day Carnival Committee is pictured at Belfast City Hall on Tuesday, where she and other committee members handed in a petition calling on the Council to reverse its decision not to fund this year's St Patrick's Day concert in Belfast city centre.

The petition was signed by up to 10,000 people from across Ireland, who were lending their support to the campaign to force the Council's unionist killjoys to support Belfast's St Patrick's Day celebrations, which will go ahead despite the Council's miserliness.

The petition was left at City Hall for the attention of the Alliance, UUP, DUP and the PUP parties, who voted against funding an event that has proved popular over the years and attracts thousands of people into the city centre.

In a letter accompanying the petition, Sherry invited members of the four unionist parties who denied funding for the Carnival to come to City Hall and join in the fun.