Two of Belfast's morning newspapers, as well as the DUP and SDLP have criticised Sunday's hunger strikes rally at Casement Park.
Addressing the commemoration to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1981 H-Block protest, the president of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams told a crowd of 20,000 people to be proud of the hunger strikers. The GAA's central council was unhappy with the use of the ground in west Belfast, but the local county board appears to have made no objections.
The nationalist Irish News said in its editorial column yesterday that the 25th anniversary rally should "never been staged at Casement Park".
"Although the central council of the GAA in Dublin made it perfectly clear that the Andersonstown stadium was not available, the organisers of the event simply ignored this ruling and insisted on taking over the ground for their rally," it said.
West Belfast DUP assembly member Diane Dodds said: "One can just imagine the outcry if a unionist party were to stage a rally celebrating the activities of a terrorist loyalist organisation."
The unionist News Letter also criticised the staging of the rally at the GAA grounds as "a most blatant abuse".
SDLP deputy leader Alasdair McDonnell said: "GAA grounds should not be used for party political purposes. It is profoundly regrettable that Sinn Féin has walked over the GAA."