Westlife under pressure to pull out of Poppy Appeal Westlife under pressure to pull out of Poppy Appeal Westlife are under pressure to pull out of this year's Poppy Appeal. The lads launched the Royal British Legion campaign today Tues, but Sinn Fein politicians have pulled them into a fresh row, saying they shouldn't support the British Army. Sinn Fein said Westlife added insult to injury by saying they were honoured to front the Poppy Appeal. Republicans reckon it's wrong for an Irish band to back the British Legion, saying there's nothing honourable about the army's last 30 years in Northern Ireland.
Unionists say it's an out-dated protest.
Westlife's record company, RCA, have issued a statement on behalf of the band, and want to make it clear that the decision to involve the group in the Poppy Appeal was made entirely by the record company.