“the trouble is ongoing and motorists should avoid the area..”
According to the BBC report, a small number of petrol bombs and stones were thrown at police in the Belfast last night when “what the PSNI has called “sporadic” disturbances broke out in Cromac Street, the Markets, Lower Ormeau, Lower Newtownards Road and Short Strand areas” – no reports of injuries or arrests. In County Armagh today, where the ‘gangs’ seem somewhat more lethally equipped, “at least one blast bomb, as well as bottles, stones and petrol bombs have been thrown at police investigating a security alert [in the Tullygally and Drumbeg areas of Craigavon]“. Motorists are being asked to avoid the area. Update BBC report a number of shots fired at a police patrol in Craigavon at around 8pm. And they quote Sinn Féin MLA John O’Dowd.
Sinn Fein assembly member John O’Dowd said: “I would appeal to everyone involved in the trouble to stop it now before someone is either injured or killed. “This is not a game, this is not fun, what we’ve seen tonight is actually attempted murder. Please stop it now before someone is killed.”
From the Telly:
PSNI accused of heavy-handedness in Craigavon
See, it’s all the fault of the police.
There is a nice video doing the rounds of police knocking someones door down, I learnt years ago during raids it’s always better to answer it.
The poor wee dissidents, the nasty peelers want to lift them for minor offences like attempted murder. Maybe we should do what Damian and “Violence Rules OK” want and set up an EU funded aromatherapy workshop for them and give them some ‘community worker’ jobs so they can strut their stuff in a working-class community that wants nothing to do with them for £30k a year.
I found this from a “Republican Bulletin Board”
‘Enemy forces have come under blast bomb, petrol bomb and stone and bottle attack in the Drumbeg and Tullygally areas of Craigavon.
Cars and lorries have been hijacked and set on fire and police vehicles damaged as the trouble continued, motorists were being warned to avoid the area.
The resistance occured as a series of bomb warnings were checked by the Colonial Constabulary and the area around a burnt out, hijacked car in Ardowen was searched.
Nothing was found during the serch operation.’
The spirit of Pearse, O’Malley, and the likes lives on…
Why not go the whole hog Sammy and make them MLAs give them £52,000 before bonus, and they could then sit and do nothing like the present bunch, they wouldn’t even need to strut, unless there was an oul parade or two or even a dander along a Donegal beach past the oul homestead.
Why are loyalsts from Pitt Park throwing petrol bombs?
Victor1 – fair point.