When sectarianism mutates into open racism…
The rout of 20 Romanian families out of their homes in south Belfast have brought Northern Ireland back to the screens of the UK and the Republic. It seems like they are destined to get out of Northern Ireland completely. It’s nothing short of a collapse in the health of any community that these kinds of attacks. The involvement of gun indicates an acquiesce of paramilitaries in an area in which it is almost impossible to move (or even talk …
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