Call for museum ‘to honour RUC’
The assembly is to debate a proposal calling on the Northern Ireland Office to help fund a museum to honour the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
The RUC George Cross Foundation has been lobbying for several years to build a museum beside its commemoration garden at PSNI headquarters.
The foundation has applied for funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and NIO.
Jim McDonald, a trustee of the foundation, said the museum would have a “variety of stories” about the RUC.
“The garden tells one particular story, the museum will tell a variety of stories and tell it in the context of that period because we are fortunate in the historical society to have a large reservoir of material,” he said.
“We recently bought a George medal which was awarded to a sergeant in the 1950s for his defence of Rosslea.”
