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Anger as Sinn Fein targets schools for Irish signs, while blocking Ulster Scots: Nationalists 'bat away hand of friendship' over massive shared campus in Omagh

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Anger as Sinn Fein targets schools for Irish signs, while blocking Ulster Scots: Nationalists 'bat away hand of friendship' over massive shared campus in Omagh

Sinn Fein has demanded Irish signs be plastered onto shared schools – while simultaneously blocking Ulster Scots.

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