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Date Posted: 10:35:49 03/05/04 Fri
Author: FROM ni BBC tv
Subject: uu students claim CIRA threats - union elections

BBC TV

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3492442.stm
BBC TV 27 Feb 2004


UU says elections have been postponed for a fortnight
Student elections at the University of Ulster have been suspended after claims that candidates were intimidated.
It is understood election posters were defaced by graffiti alleged to come from republican dissident group the Continuity IRA.

The posters were in the main corridor of the students' union at the Jordanstown campus.

The university said the elections on Thursday for two vice-presidents have been postponed for a fortnight.

However, it denied any political or paramilitary graffiti had been used.

A university spokesman said: "The elections have been postponed for two weeks because some election posters were defaced and unauthorised posters were put up in public areas.

"None of the posters have political slogans of any kind. Any substantiated allegation about intimidation will be fully investigated by the university and the executive of the students' union."

Elections for the posts of president and deputy president went ahead, but the vice-president elections were halted.


John Hogan, one of the candidates who said he was targeted, said he was so upset he was considering leaving the university.

"Right now I am thinking about going back to Donegal," he said.

"I am very nervous about the situation. I am actually thinking about leaving college.

"This sectarianism is really sickening, that the two of us - Catholic and Protestant standing together - against racism and sectarianism and then all this blows up in our face.

"The people who did this are really sick."

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