Should Stormont be splashing out on fake shop fronts?

Should Stormont still be splashing out cash on fake shop fronts? The journalist Malachi O'Doherty has had enough, and said in the Belfast Telegraph that "the strategy of disguising our dying towns as busy vibrant and homely old-world villages deserves to be mocked and parodied". Thousands have been recently allocated to spruce up Newcastle before tourists arrive for the Irish Open. Is that money well spent, or is it fooling no-one? #BBCNolan