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“Bellwether interface” kicking off with multiple petrol bomb attacks…

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This is the front page of the Irish News this morning. It makes the legitimate point that whilst David Cameron was telling the world Northern Ireland has changed, a four year old girls received minor burn injuries from a petrol bomb thrown into Bryson Street in the Short Strand. The incident brought substantive comment from Belfast’s former Lord Mayor Niall O Donnghaile: “I visited the young girl who was injured today and her family and spoke with the PSNI following …

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“In her hands golf balls which she said were thrown by her nationalist neighbours…”

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Worth watching this piece from Gerry Adams at a Presser at the weekend. “It is not spontaneous, it is not organic, it is orchestrated it is planned. This was a deliberate policy of coming to these so-called interface areas and attacking people only on the basis that they are Catholic.” Except here’s the UTV news from last week, which reports another version of the truth and a group of loyalist protesters returning from the centre of Belfast: Indeed, Mr Adams …

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The other sides(s) of the wall

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A follow up on the Draw Down the Walls piece at Flax Street here with the view either side of the peace wall at Cluan Place Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown …

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Photograph of the Day – No Ball Games

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Belfast Conflict Resolution Consortium posted a letter through the door yesterday informing me that they are to hold a public meeting to discuss the “recent rise of interface incidents in East Belfast, BCRC and its Key Area Contact network (whatever that means)” The leaflet then goes on to say “the following agencies will contribute to the meeting: PSNI, Belfast City Council Community Safety Partnership, Youth & Justice Agency, Charter NI and Short Strand Partnership” It also asked for any questions …

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