‘Maybe it’s the Spirit There’
29 June 2009
The fleeing of over 100 Roma from their houses in South Belfast, and the subsequent departure of most of them back to Romania, has hit the headlines all over the world. Esther Rantzen has accused the people of Northern Ireland of being addicted to hate. Roma history, and indeed the history of minorities in Europe, would suggest that the people of Northern Ireland have simply added themselves to a long line of other addicted people.
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The Murder of Kevin McDaid
29 June 2009
The murder of Kevin McDaid was a lynch-mob killing - a planned attack on ‘Catholics’ by a murderous crowd without thought for the human costs or consequences. As in any hate crime, human beings were reduced to the value of some hated symbol- in this case football tops, colours, addresses and labels. All that mattered to the murderers in the Heights was that Kevin McDaid was one of ‘them’.
Conflict has left a legacy
16 June 2009
THIS is the situation in Coleraine this week – on one side of town, one family burying a husband and father; one family sitting in vigil by the bed of a brother on a life support machine; on the other side of town, eight or nine families with someone in custody facing serious charges in relation to the murder of a community leader who was set upon by a lunch mob that descended on the street outside his home.