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Article: Pub chain sorry for poppy snub
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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ONE of Northern Ireland's biggest pub chains has apologised after
a man was asked to remove a poppy in order to get into one of its
venues.
Graeme Milligan from east Belfast said he was horrified when a
doorman at the Northern Whig in Belfast asked him to remove the
paper flower from his lapel on Saturday night.
Mr Milligan, a worker in Bombardier Aerospace, said: "The doorman
said 'excuse me, you couldn't take that off?'
"I said 'why?', and he said 'you're not allowed to wear anything
to do with Rangers or Celtic, or political symbols'."
He said he and his partner Linda were sober and sensibly dressed
and enjoying their monthly night out on the town.
"I said to the doorman it wasn't a ...