Derry City and Strabane District Council has banned the sale of Parachute Regiment flags at next month’s Apprentice Boys’ parade in Derry city.
A row erupted at the same event last year after it emerged that the flags were being sold at a stall on the route of the parade.
A report to council members on Wednesday noted “sensitivities” surrounding the flags.
Soldiers from the regiment shot dead 13 people in Derry on Bloody Sunday on 30 January 1972. A 14th civilian later died of their injuries.
The motion before a council committee last week discussed new criteria for granting temporary licences for the Relief of Derry event.
It stated stallholders would not be granted a licence unless they agreed not to sell flags or emblems of the regiment.
It also said council officers would not grant a licence to anyone who intends to sell or display flags in support of paramilitary organisations.
It is illegal to sell flags in support of paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland.
At least one stallholder sold flags last year in support of the outlawed UVF.
A number of flags were also seized by police in the Waterside area of the city.
The annual Apprentice Boys’ parade in Derry city is due to take place next month on Saturday, August 12.
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