Belfast City Council has apologised for spelling mistakes on new dual language street signs in the city.
A number of signs in north, south and west Belfast which were erected yesterday have been misspelled.
In west Belfast, La Salle Park/Páirc La Salle is spelled a number of ways on its new street signs – Páire La Salle and Paire La Salle.
After years of controversy, a new dual language street sign policy was introduced in July of last year which makes the threshold of support for signage much easier than previously. Belfast City Council has received over 600 applications in that time.
The overall cost of approving and putting up a dual language sign in the city is about £1,000.
Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh of Conradh na Gaeilge said the mistakes were extremely disappointing and questioned why contractors came out today with white stickers trying to conceal the mistakes.
Belfast City Council said it is aware of spelling errors and said the signs are currently in the process of being replaced at no additional cost to the council.
"We apologise for this error and will be urgently reviewing our quality assurance processes to ensure this does not happen again."
SDLP Belfast City Council Group Leader Séamas de Faoite said the situation was an embarrassing one for Belfast City Council and that significant checks need to be put in place to ensure that this never happens again.
"After the SDLP raised this issue with council we established that the correct spelling and translation were used in the committee report for this sign, and this was provided to the contractor," he said.
He added: "Obtaining Irish language signs or any other dual language signage for areas that want them took a serious effort from campaigners and councillors and this has been an embarrassing episode for the council."
"The least we should expect is that when requests for these signs pass through council that we can see them put in place in the correct manner."
