The Northern Ireland Local Government Standards Commissioner suspends Colin Kennedy, a Democratic Unionist Party councillor on Ards and North Down Borough Council, for three months over comments he made during 2023 in which he linked members of the LGBTQ community with Hamas.
The development formed part of the day's news across Northern Ireland. Contemporary coverage attributed the principal details to BBC News on 24 April 2026.
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