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Post by leeside on Aug 2, 2010 11:38:54 GMT
Paint thrown at Our Lady's Church in Harryville. Paint is thrown over a Catholic church in the Harryville area of Ballymena. A Catholic church in Ballymena has been damaged in a sectarian attack. Paint was thrown over the steps and front door of Our Lady's in Harryville on Saturday night. Police have said it is being treated as a hate crime. The church has been the targets of vandals over many years. For a period in the 1990s, loyalists held weekly protests while Mass was being held. Father Patrick Delargy said it was becoming a daily event for something to be thrown at the church. "It's as much an irritation as much as anything else because it's one in a series of disturbances here round the church which have begun just before the twelfth of July. "Almost every day there has been something thrown at the church or at the house. "But this is the first time we've actually had anything straight on the church as far as the paint is concerned." SDLP North Antrim MLA Declan O'Loan said: "Thankfully, it was not a serious incident but it was an unfortunate incident and one that is disappointing considering Ballymena has had a quiet summer when compared with other places." Sinn Fein's Daithà McKay added: "Attacks on churches of all types are mindless and abhorrent and it is very sad that in this day and age Catholic churches in the Ballymena area are still being singled out as targets." www.bbc.co.uk/news...orthern-ireland-10831284 |
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Post by Wasp on Aug 2, 2010 22:30:20 GMT
Absolutely disgusting, no-one should attack any place of worship and if revenge was the reason then they are as bad as those that attack Orange Halls etc. One of the last times this Chruch was attacked it was a local republican who carried it out but many other times it has been thugs who call themselves loyalists. Everyright thinking person must condemn this.
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Post by leeside on Aug 3, 2010 14:47:09 GMT
Really? Was the republican you're talking about caught and charged? Is this a throw back to the days when loyalists bombed an electricity pylon in east belfast with the hope of republicans being blamed. Shocking if what you claim is true.
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Post by Wasp on Aug 3, 2010 17:34:22 GMT
Think he was charged but I am not absolutely positive, if memory serves me right Harry was also aware of this. Its no throwback its something that bothsides have done throughout the troubles so the otherside would get the blame. FFS the ira fired at catholic homes so loyalists would get the blame in the early 70s.
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Post by leeside on Aug 4, 2010 11:26:44 GMT
I cant find anything on the net to back up your claims. Would be great if you could locate the news article you're referring to. I know it doesnt take away from the months of sectarian scummery inflicted by local loyalist filth on Catholics going to mass but at the same time I would like to read about this particular republican you speak of.
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Post by Wasp on Aug 4, 2010 22:14:29 GMT
I cant find anything on the net to back up your claims. Would be great if you could locate the news article you're referring to. I know it doesnt take away from the months of sectarian scummery inflicted by local loyalist filth on Catholics going to mass but at the same time I would like to read about this particular republican you speak of. Oh so he had to have been prosecuted to back up my claims??? Smae old same old, if I wanted to make things up then I would say all attacks were caused by republicans in order to blame loyalists. You also failed to add the many loyalists who condemned these actions and came out in support of the very same catholics going to mass. Even setanta acknowledged that one. |
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Post by leeside on Aug 5, 2010 10:58:19 GMT
I cant find anything on the net to back up your claims. Would be great if you could locate the news article you're referring to. I know it doesnt take away from the months of sectarian scummery inflicted by local loyalist filth on Catholics going to mass but at the same time I would like to read about this particular republican you speak of. Oh so he had to have been prosecuted to back up my claims??? Smae old same old, if I wanted to make things up then I would say all attacks were caused by republicans in order to blame loyalists. You also failed to add the many loyalists who condemned these actions and came out in support of the very same catholics going to mass. Even setanta acknowledged that one. Who said anything about him being prosecuted?? If he did it im sure he was charged, right? I mean if its such public knowledge as you claim. Also, the reason you wouldn't ever say 'all attacks were caused by republicans' is because we'd all know that you'd be talking bollox! |
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Post by Wasp on Aug 5, 2010 14:52:33 GMT
Oh so he had to have been prosecuted to back up my claims??? Smae old same old, if I wanted to make things up then I would say all attacks were caused by republicans in order to blame loyalists. You also failed to add the many loyalists who condemned these actions and came out in support of the very same catholics going to mass. Even setanta acknowledged that one. Who said anything about him being prosecuted?? If he did it im sure he was charged, right? I mean if its such public knowledge as you claim. Also, the reason you wouldn't ever say 'all attacks were caused by republicans' is because we'd all know that you'd be talking bollox! Obviously being the type of republican you are you only believe in the legal system when it suits, like you would rejoice at known terrorists or whoever getting let off because of lack of evidence, a technicality, lack of witnesses etc yet demand prosecution when it comes to challenging any claim by a loyalist. According to your mindset all those who done things were charged no matter what it was. Please come into the real world. Now would you like to talk about the many loyalists I mentioned who supported the catholics going to mass or would that be to much for you to stomach because it wouldnt be the exception? |
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Post by leeside on Aug 5, 2010 15:29:11 GMT
Who said anything about him being prosecuted?? If he did it im sure he was charged, right? I mean if its such public knowledge as you claim. Also, the reason you wouldn't ever say 'all attacks were caused by republicans' is because we'd all know that you'd be talking bollox! Obviously being the type of republican you are you only believe in the legal system when it suits, like you would rejoice at known terrorists or whoever getting let off because of lack of evidence, a technicality, lack of witnesses etc yet demand prosecution when it comes to challenging any claim by a loyalist. According to your mindset all those who done things were charged no matter what it was. Please come into the real world. Now would you like to talk about the many loyalists I mentioned who supported the catholics going to mass or would that be to much for you to stomach because it wouldnt be the exception? Mope Mope Mope.....Im not even a republican. Show me where i have ever said that i am! I left all that shit behind years before you even learned that the earth was older than 10,000 years old  |
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