Colleen 🌫

spent my childhood in camhs like the rest of you 🦕

[🤔 @E2020Mc]

They spat up on, hurled missiles and bags of urine at 5 year olds who just wanted to go to school.

[MichaeloKeeffe @Mick_O_Keeffe]

A lot of you from outside Ireland are probably hearing about the Garvaghy Road and wondering what all the fuss is about.

1998 -

After the parade was banned from marching on the Garvaghy Rd, ten Catholic churches were set on fire across Ulster in one night.

In the following days, loyalists attacked Catholic homes, schools and businesses. Multiple houses were petrol-bombed, resulting in the murder of 3 young boys, the Quinn brothers. Their home was targeted because their mother was Catholic.

She mother woke to the sound of her children screaming in fear and the house full of smoke. Sadly the boys, Jason, Mark and Richard, did not make it out.

Garfield Gilmour was sentenced to life in prison after he admitted to driving three members of a UVF unit to the house, but later that was reduced to manslaughter.

Johnny McKay and brothers Raymond and Ivan Parke were named by Gilmour as the killers, but were never charged because of a lack of evidence.

In the days following the murders, loyalist bands defied orders not to play music while marching passed the home of the Quinn boys grandmother.

Tonight, a court overturned an earlier ruling banning the parade from marching on the Garvaghy Road, crowds have gathered and confrontation now seems inevitable with that march set to go ahead early Sunday morning.

The courts allowing this march to go ahead is absolute madness!

[Áine @Thelytokous]

If anyone is wondering why so many sex scandals are coming out around the DUP, just remember it’s a party of fundamental Christians.

They condemn gay people, trans people, sex before marriage, abortion, want women submissive.

They are worth the watching.

[Michelle O’Neill @moneillsf]

We can never accept burning effigies of political representatives, flags or symbols as normal.

In any other part of the world, this would be unfathomable and unacceptable. It should be no different here.

This is hatred, rooted in ugly sectarianism and racism.

Last night, effigies of political representatives, including myself, were placed on bonfires, surrounded by flags and emblems.

Those responsible have nothing to offer except fear and division.

But they will not succeed.

I will not let hatred dictate our future.

I will continue to build a future where all our children grow up free from hate.

[Micheál Ó Cinnéide @MickKennedy76]

They hate Catholics. They hate Muslims. They hate gay people. They hate the Irish language. They are not particularly keen on the arts. They are a toxic bunch

[Anne @Miss_Scots]

If you attend an Orange Walk you are not there for a ‘festival’ you are there because you are a sectarian bigot🤷‍♀️

[Ruairí 🪉 @rory_donaghy]

British migrants have always refused to integrate into Irish society

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

She fled her home.

She saved her nurse’s uniform.

Not her jewellery. Not possessions. Her uniform because she wanted to keep caring for people.

That tells you everything about her.

This is the Britain I believe in: one that values compassion, courage and those who contribute to our communities.

[Sean Devlin @SeanDev50409859]

Unionism was complaining about the £150,000 Irish signage at grand central station when loyalist thugs burn a bus worth £800,000 so I don’t want to hear about the cost of Irish signage again

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.

I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.

[seosamh 🇵🇸 @dayglowj0e]

english nationalists telling irish people to defend their country from invasion

[Matthew O'Toole @MatthewOToole2]

Just home from dealing with the consequences of tonight's lawlessness.

Perhaps some of the English right wing influencers and local politicians enthusing about these protests would explain to children I met why they have no beds to sleep in tonight.

Utterly disgusted.

[DOZA🧐 @lil_doza]

People who worked hard and saved to own a house and a car then some random scum pretending to be outraged sets them on fire.

This is pure racist jealousy.

[Michelle O’Neill @moneillsf]

Groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice.

This has nothing to do with community.

This is outright thuggery.

The attack in North Belfast was heinous and wrong.

But there are dangerous attempts to exploit that to target and attack innocent people who are simply trying to live, work and raise their families here.

Racism, intimidation and violence are wrong wherever they occur.

There can be no excuse and no justification for these attacks tonight.

No one wants to see this on our streets and I again appeal for calm.

[The Flare @TheFlareNews]

BELFAST

Two Irishmen practicing hurling on a road closed due to the protest and unrest.

[Oisín @OisinMul_]

The people organising these protests are racists, they’re sectarian, they’re bigots and they’re hypocrites. They’ll defend and celebrate the shankill butchers. Don’t line up with them and don’t fall for it.

Class unity against all hatred and bigotry 🚩

[Ryan Cullen @RyanCullen90]

All these bloody Sudanese coming over here ruining the famously peaceful & non violent city of Belfast

[Oisín @OisinMul_]

Next month Belfast will be full of people chanting about being “up to their knees in fenian blood”. Tonight Belfast will be full of those same people pretending to care about a “fenian” being brutally attacked in violent attack to promote their racism and other even more people.

[Emma DeSouza @EmmaCDeSouza]

A lot of men up in arms over the attack in North Belfast who have absolutely nothing to say femicide levels in NI, the most deadly place to be a women in the UK and Ireland.

Whipping up rage and anger because an immigrant is involved tells you everything about their motives.

[Colum Eastwood @columeastwood]

The horrific scenes in North Belfast should not be used by English, right wing politicians to further their own ends. I don’t ever remember them commenting on any of the other hellish things that community has experienced over the years.