Tuesday, August 26, 2008
“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.”
Pete Baker @ 01:20 PM
The credit crunch isn’t worth it. People in N.I. today get so wound up over nothing.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 01:34 PMSinn Fein rattling the sabre?
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 01:38 PMIs this just the usual silly season, end of the summer hols hoods up to no good or is there something more organised behind it? Anyone on the ground care to comment?
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 01:51 PMThe stuff in belfast is schoolchildren hoods organising their kicks on bebo…
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 02:04 PMFor the most part normal people living and working in this part of Ireland thought recreational rioting belonged to a bygone era, i.e., the bad-old – sad-old days and ways that didn’t work. Sporadic disturbance’s can happen almost anywhere for a multiplicity of reasons. Excluding the ever so remote possibility!! Of political crisis creation? the horrendous summer weather and back to school, its difficult for me to imagine any additional scenario. Jus sayin like!.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 03:34 PMExcuse my ignorance, but is this happening in a Catholic or Prod area?
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 04:12 PMCatholic area Earnan.
I noticed conti grafitti going up last week after the area being quiet for a while, no doubt this was planned after they phoned in a bomb threat at the start of the week.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 05:18 PMI don’t believe SF are behind this. It’s schoolkids.
The idea that the police should be issuing warnings to people not to go to certain areas is preposterous. The PSNI need to go in with riot gear and tear gas.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 06:14 PMHmmm. Images of police going in against schoolkids in the front line. Using batons and stuff.
Wonder where I have seen that before....?
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 06:21 PMComrade Stalin,
On the one hand, you state that it’s ‘only schoolkids’ involved in the rioting yet you then advise the Police to go in with riot gear and CS gas. lol......Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 06:23 PMSend in the Paras
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 06:26 PMIt’s the end of the school holidays, the kids need rid of built up aggression.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 06:46 PMdactur hugh,
When schoolkids are throwing petrol and blast bombs, damaging property, endangering life and turning neighbourhoods into war zones that the police have to plead with the public to stay away from, the fact that they are schoolkids seems less important. It needs to be explained to them that there are consequences to this shit. You don’t just sit back and let them get on with it.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 07:17 PMIt was you who said that they were ‘only schoolkids’. Send in the CS (Comrade Stalin) Gas anyway...lol
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 07:21 PM”It needs to be explained to them that there are consequences to this shit. You don’t just sit back and let them get on with it.”
but IRA/Sinn Fein will step in and claim the police are heavy handed
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 07:28 PMErnan
I guess you meant Nationalist or Loyalist? The Vatican and Croatia are Catholic areas. Some of the greatest early Irish Republicans were Protestants.
The Lower Ormeau Road is predominantly Sunni, becoming mildly Shia as you move towards Cromac Street.
As you move West towards Donegall Pass the Chinese Falung Gong sect start to prevail.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 08:17 PMIs it still going on? I could shift some pairs of track-bottoms out the back of my van
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 08:23 PM>On the one hand, you state that
>it’s ‘only schoolkids’ involved in
>the rioting yet you then advise the
>Police to go in with riot gear and CS gas. >lol......If he’d said they should go in with canes and paddles, he would have sounded too much like an Englishman :)
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 08:27 PMI tend to think it is Sinn Fein led. Obviously they’re not getting their way at the moment.
SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly was injured after calling to a meeting in Lurgan tonight when youths in balaclavas also smashed her windscreen. Dissident anger tends to be at Sinn Fein not the SDLP.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 08:29 PM”It needs to be explained to them that there are consequences to this shit. You don’t just sit back and let them get on with it.”
Exactly. The public shouldn’t have to put up with this nonsense from the poor weans.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 08:46 PM“Is it still going on?”
Apparently so, b-JR.
See the update to the original post.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 09:14 PManyone heard anything more about the IRA stall at the Lammas fair. It was on TALK BACK today and Moyle Council was trying to explain why they allowed an illegal organisation to set up a stall in it’s district.
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 09:32 PMyou van wouldn’t last long before going up in smoke billie-Joe !
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 10:00 PMyour
Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 10:00 PMUMH
Well you got that one wrong, see SF statement.
Seems like you don’t get much right.Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 @ 10:01 PM
