Ulster Unionist Celebration chief Doug Beattie has condemned the presence of a Soldier F t-shirt on the Apprentice Boys parade in Derry on Saturday.
image of a person carrying the garment with “Stand With Soldier F” printed throughout the again circulated on social media over the past 24 hours.
“No Apologies, No Give up,” the print additionally reads.
Writing on social media on Sunday morning, Mr Beattie slammed the presence of the t-shirt.
“There are some individuals who exit of their option to be hurtful and spiteful,” the unionist chief tweeted.
“There may be merely no must this.”
Elsewhere, SDLP chief Colum Eastwood additionally took to Twitter on Saturday evening to categorical disappointment and make his ideas clear.
“The folks of Derry have led the best way in accommodating the Apprentice Boys parades,” he wrote.
“It’s not been simple and has meant all sides have needed to stretch themselves.
“This nonsense is intentionally offensive and has no place in our metropolis.”
1000’s of members from 26 bands marched within the annual Lundy parade on Saturday to commemorate the seventeenth century siege of the town.
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A number of thousand Apprentice Boys participate within the annual Lundy parade in Derry. Pacemaker.
It culminated with the burning of an effigy of Lt Col Robert Lundy, higher often called Lundy the Traitor.
A service of thanksgiving and a wreath-laying ceremony additionally befell.
Talking earlier than the parade, Apprentice Boys governor Graeme Stenhouse mentioned the entire organisation was wanting ahead to “crucial day of the 12 months within the calendar” which he vowed can be peaceable and respectful.
“We all the time encourage our membership and supporters to conduct themselves within the correct method,” he added.
“We imagine that if we’re respectful in the best way that we conduct our enterprise then we are going to get respect from the nationalist group.”
Lundy, former governor of Derry, is a hated determine amongst unionists due to his supply to give up to the Jacobite military, which was considered treachery.
The annual march commemorates the 13 apprentices who locked the walled metropolis’s gates in opposition to the approaching military of the Catholic King James II in December 1688 – often called Shutting of the Gates.
Greater than 10,000 lives had been misplaced within the Siege of Derry which lasted 105 days.