In April 2014 the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland criticised Newry and Mourne District Council for retaining the name of a children 's play park called after the IRA hunger striker , Raymond McCreesh . McCreesh had been arrested with a weapon used in the infamous Kingsmill massacre of Protestant workmen . Twenty nationalist councillors - including six ( non-republican ) SDLP representatives - voted to uphold his name in the December 2012 vote , but unionists campaigned against the decision . The Equality Commission concluded that their investigation has found that little consideration appears to have been given by the council to the impact its decision , in this instance , might have on Ulster Protestants/unionists or to the damage it might cause to good relations In elections for the Westminster Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly it is split between the Newry & Armagh constituency and the South Down constituency
Kingsmill massacre
Kingsmill massacre
Newry and Mourne District Council