“Not always possible to align the democratic and the retail calendars…”

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First sign of any sort of kick back on the Alliance, the SDLP and Sinn Fein came from President of the Chamber last night, Joe Jordan who criticised the timing of the vote (rather than the vote itself), and the widespread unrest in and now way beyond the city..

It fell to Mairtin O’Muilleoir, a businessman himself and often an overt champion of local business interests on Twitter responded to similar queries on Sunday when he tweeted:

But when comes to it, you are left with Jordan’s question still hanging: why couldn’t they? What was the rush? Why not the retail graveyard of February or March?

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