{"id":56429,"date":"2026-07-11T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/linfield-calls-for-full-and-unconditional-apology-from-alliance-party-over-badge-use\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:52:08","slug":"linfield-calls-for-full-and-unconditional-apology-from-alliance-party-over-badge-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/linfield-calls-for-full-and-unconditional-apology-from-alliance-party-over-badge-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Linfield: Calls for ‘full and unconditional’ apology from Alliance Party over badge use"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

A football club has called for “full and unconditional apologies” from the Alliance Party after the club’s badge was used in an image on a social media post where the party was promoting a bill that will “tackle abusive flags”. <\/b><\/p>\n

The image posted had a flag which bears Linfield FC’s badge and the text on the image said “striking the right balance”.<\/p>\n

South Belfast MLA Paula Bradshaw, who is proposing the bill, apologised to the club “for any offence caused” which Linfield have called a “conditional apology”.<\/p>\n

The Alliance Party said the flag had been used “in conjunction with highlighted text about legitimate cultural expression, but was misconstrued by some”.<\/p>\n

The graphic was removed to “avoid any misrepresentation, deliberate or otherwise”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A football club has called for “full and unconditional apologies” from the Alliance Party after the club’s badge was used in an image on a social media post where the party was promoting a bill that will “tackle abusive flags”. The image posted had a flag which bears Linfield FC’s badge and the text on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[10527,804,959,362,5029,15929,2097,10579],"class_list":["post-56429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-alliance","tag-apology","tag-badge","tag-calls","tag-full","tag-linfield","tag-party","tag-unconditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56431,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56429\/revisions\/56431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}