A Belfast interface worker has called on the authorities to keep protesters away from interface flashpoints.
Gosh..let’s read a little more..
Twenty-nine police officers were injured at the weekend in rioting at east Belfast’s Short Strand interface. It followed a loyalist protest over the decision to restrict the flying of the union flag at Belfast City Hall. Joe O’Donnell, director of the Belfast Interface Project, said keeping rival groups apart is vital, or years of cross-community work will be destroyed.
Joe sounds a caring kinda guy.
Hang on a mo though, is this “interface worker” Joe O’Donnell the SAME guy who held senior office in Sinn Fein? Yup. What else? Is this “interface worker” in any related to the same Joe O’Donnell who when elected as a Sinn Fein Deputy Mayor took part in this tribute to IRA killers? So, a senior Republican who supported the IRA is presented as an innocuous “interface worker”. Welcome to the working week. BBC Northern Ireland – never knowingly balanced.
Shocking but far from surprising. The BBC are disgustingly dishonest to their core.
‘A Belfast interface worker has called on the authorities to keep protesters away from interface flashpoints.’
At risk of incurring wrath, but to intercept any non-stalkers from a gotcha bonus, that is the subhead.
The headline is also a testimony to ‘Proper context won’t fit’: Belfast flag protests: Interface worker in plea
They’ll claim space meant that clarification has to go in para 96, but as you point out, it didn’t make it at all.
On the plus side, having had the term used about 1,000 times (OK, I may have exaggerated a smidge) in that report, I have now been well and truly introduced to “Interface worker” if, as you have kindly provided where the BBC could not, without possibly relevant context to the back-story.
Lord Lever on advertising said 1/2 his money was wasted but the trouble was he did not know which half.
With the BBC’s ‘reporting’, this is seldom a problem. All £4Bpa is now pretty much useless.
Hopefully all necessary page captures have been made?
I am English by birth and have parents who are N.Irish and Catholic from Co.Derry…. my view is thus….
The decision to stop flying the Union Jack was nothing more than a blatant act aimed at creating friction between the Unionist and Nationalist factions of the six counties… The province is part of the Uk and as such it should of course fly the Union Jack over Belfasts` (the regional capital) town hall…. The proposal that a new flag which pays any kind of homage to the Dublin Gov`t is stupid, the Sinn Fein leaders are presuming without asking the people whether or not they actually wish to become part of a full Irish state… My family and most of the Catholic section of the populace have no interest in being ruled by a Dublin Gov`t which is actually ruled by both the Catholic church and also Brussels, which is also bankcrupt both financially and morally….
I have discussed this topic on several occasions with other people I know who live in N.Ireland…. They have all told me that they do not wish for ex-terrorists and thier Political leaders to be involved in the new administration based at Storemont… They base this opinion on knowledge that until the two extreme opposites of a forty years conflict as removed from Political decisions there will never be a true peace there… I agree with what they say, they should know, they lived through the worst and thier view is based on common sense…
It is obvious that by having the two extreme viewpoints in a power share will not work, they have simply switched weapons for legislation powers and are using it to create flashpoints deliberately in the knowledge that it will lead to civil unrest…. Martin MacGuiness is Minister for the security Services… A convicted IRA terroristwho was involved in murder of innocent people from both sides….. He now has access to all Police records and also the names and addresses of the police…. I have three cousins in the new reformed N.Irish Police force and I worry for them, I really do….. They are uncomfortable with MacGuiness being given charge of the Police and have the opinion that if the ceasefire ended their lives would be in danger… Two are considering leaving the force now, the other is looking at a transfer to the English Police force over here….. They all joined hoping to make a difference, and this is what they get, malicious and dishonest political decisions being made by thier superiors who ten years ago were at war with the police and were carrying out assasinations of thier forces and also thier familes too…..
REMOVE ALL EX TERRORISTS AND SUSPECTED EX TERRORIST LEADERS FROM ALL POLITICAL POSITIONS IN N.IRELAND BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
By involving these people in the new Storemont Administration the Uk Government is telling those now committing murders under as so called `dissident` splinter groups that terrorism works and that by using terrorism as a weapon it will lead inevitably to them gaining access to power as well….. The Storemont Government needs a clear slate, until it rids itself of the proponents and promoters of terrorism and thier historical mistrust and misrepresentation of the people of both sides in the province there cannot and will not be any constructive direction for a fair and democratic leadership which represents the main part of all those who live in N.Ireland….
The removal of Unionist and Nationalist motivated politics is essential, these two polar opposites have blighted the lives of the people of both sides for far too long…..
Outside the two main Cities (London)Derry and Belfast, there is little support for extremist political views…. The majority of the people are fed up with these criminals and murderers destroying thier childrens futures by thier twisted and bigoted viewpoints which hold the people in contempt….
Kick them all out or better still recall all convicted murderers to prison and make them serve out thier sentences as thier freedom is a slap in the face to those who lost thier loved ones during the troubles and is an insult to the memory of those who died….
Just my opinion… But one based on common sense a direct experience of losing family members to the sick and vile acts carried out by murderers now creating havoc and hatred from within Storemont….
Justin I too find it difficult to believe you know anything about NI. To start with the decision to fly the flag on city hall on designated days of the year brings the city hall into line with other Unionist run cities like Lisburn where no such riots have occurred and the same applies to Craigavon. Flags in NI are used to mark territory they celebrate division and an “in yer face” mentality. They are used by the ill educated to intimidate. When you see Unionists flying the flag in Belfast they do it as a mark of sectarianism, very sad but true. Belfast today is roughly 50:50 Catholic to Protestant, in a few years there may be a Catholic majority this is perceived by some as being a Nationalist majority but as you point out this is not the same. The riots are being orchestrated by Loyalist terrorists and drug dealers – as the Chief Constable has pointed out and the trouble is not over the decision to remove the flag that is an excuse for the loyalists to raise the ante and headline themselves for more handouts from westminster. The trouble will stop as quickly as it started when Cameron shells out a few million to buy off the unemployed loyalist thugs and their quatermasters. Mark my words.
Oh! and how do I know all this? Well I live in Belfast so I have first hand experience, and if you think this place could be run without Maguinness and Sin Fein or Hutchinson of the UVF /PUP then you are living in cuckoo land. The UDA leadership are even liaising with the Unionist party so it is pretty entrenched.
That is really ill informed crock Justin.
I find it hard to believe you have any connection with Northern Ireland.
McEnroe …… I would like to hear on what basis you make these statements….. I know, becouse I have first hand experience and also becouse I have the common sense to see that the conflict carries on with legislation within Storemont rather than on the streets of N.Ireland… However, given the recent developments and escalation of Sectarian rhetoric from both sides it will not be long before a flashpoint occurs and the blight and misery of the troubles returns…… You cannot tell me that the decision about the Union Jack wasn`t a direct challenge to the more hardline elemants in N.Ireland…. Sein Fein knew exactly how they would react to it….. The administration as a whole knew that given a four year history of conflict between them the decision to take down the Union Jack this soon was bound to cause a resurgence of Sectarianism… It was Martin MacGuiness`s f*ckin job as the minister for security to ensure that his officers were protected from the violence they are now being assailed with since his Sinn Fein party pushed through the decision to no longer fly the British Flag over a provincial capitol of the f*ckin British Isles or the U.K. if you wish to be pedantic….
Pogue Mahone !!
‘I would like to hear on what basis you make these statements’
Evidently, on the basis of belief. Or not.
All that’s needed in some quarters.
Though that may soon not be a default accepted by many much longer.
I meant `four HUNDRED year history` in my previous post…
Also a quarter of the electorate decided to vote SDLP rather than Sinn Fein and Unionist parties…… I s`pose that they are full of sh*t as well are they?? Perhaps the SDLP `gerrymandered the votes did they??? Cnut!!!
Very well, here’s a few points.
‘The proposal that a new flag which pays any kind of homage to the Dublin Gov`t is stupid,’
The Union flag will fly on designated days, there’s been no serious suggestion that it be replaced with another, nevermind a nationalist one.
‘the Sinn Fein leaders are presuming without asking the people whether or not they actually wish to become part of a full Irish state…’
The flag will be flown from City Hall on designated days. This is not the same as becoming part of ROI. I think Sinn Fein know the people wouldn’t vote for that, and they seemed to accept a while ago that won’t happen through violence. The Good Friday agreement established that agreement between all parties and in the referendum.
‘a Dublin Gov`t which is actually ruled by both the Catholic church and also Brussels’
ROI’s econmic situation no doubt gave even nationalists pause, but they know its going to be decades before NI would vote for a united Ireland anyway. But run by the Catholic Church? You could have made that claim 20 years ago maybe, but hyperbole even then.
‘They have all told me that they do not wish for ex-terrorists and thier Political leaders to be involved in the new administration based at Storemont’
Well that’s strange, because they seem to vote for them in large numbers.
‘It is obvious that by having the two extreme viewpoints in a power share will not work,’
Northern Ireland certainly should be looking to move to a politics which is about health, employment, education etc, but those ‘two extreme’ viewpoints represent about 95% of the voting public, and the parties.
I don’t think wanting to remain part of GB is an extreme poisition, nor is wanting a united Ireland. It cant be extreme if it represents the mainstream.
These two sides have been working together. Theyve been doing it for a while now, re. ‘chuckle brothers’.
The stuff about Martin McGuiness gets a bit crazy. He’s not the security minister. That pretty much cancels out the rest of that stuff, but the idea that PSNI officers are fleeing NI because Martin McGuinness is accessing their details is….well, nonsense. Since, the PSNI were formed in 2001, there have been 2 officers killed by terrorists, and these were dissents.
‘Outside the two main Cities (London)Derry and Belfast, there is little support for extremist political views’
Nope, some of the rural areas are most extreme. South Armagh?
Oh, and what Joe said as well.
And:
‘the conflict carries on with legislation within Storemont rather than on the streets of N.Ireland
The decision was by Belfast council, not Stormont ffs. And if you turn on the news, you’ll see fighting on the streets, not in ‘Storemont ‘.
And it was the Alliance party, a unionist party that actually made the difference in the council vote.
I don’t think they’re much into fermenting rioting. They mostly wear tweed.
The Alliance Party a Uninist Party??? McEnroe, you cannot be serious.
Another “half the story”, albeit in a different context.
On Today this morning, poor ingenue Sarah Montague didn`t seem to know too much about the case of Free School applications, that was decided yesterday.
Now either she`s been obtuse-or she`d rather that we stick with “her half of the story”-which is obviously that of the BBC, seing as they pay rental on the mouthpiece of Muswell Hills Montesssoi movement.
Her claim was that this case was brought by the British Humanist Society-true in part.
She chose not to tell us that the Guardian and one of the teaching/lecturers Unions (ACLU was it?) were also involved in bringing the case.
Now why would she miss this out?
Let me guess-the unions in schools, Fiona Millars chums up and down the land in City Halls and schools heads who still hold their torchlights for Blunkett and Balls would just LOVE to know who, amongst them, is not on message or stepping in time to their unfinished revolution of 1997.
Any teacher involveed in trying to establish any vehicle for schools except their Trabants ;would “prejudice” any chance of getting on,, going up or even getting out of their job. With a view to constructive dismissal as assisted by their so-called “unions”.
Typical Commie smear and data gathering for later on…the “enemy within” of School Socialism to be eradicated once the cameras have gone.
And yet-Monty kept it solely to “religious groups”-and I think we all know which “religious group” will NOT be fingered in any of this….well, not in the OFSTED/ Laming or Shoesmith/Rotherham way , at least?