More (Sigh) Violence in Northern Ireland
Looks like
this isn't going to end anytime soon.
Traffic was again held up in Belfast as protesters blocked roads, mostly in the west of the city.Business and tourist interests have already begun to count the cost of disturbances, expected to run into the millions.
The local tourist board said: "Tourism here is dependent on a positive image but the television pictures broadcast reinforce an image which we had hoped was confined to the past."The article also notes that a friend of Robert McCartney, whose murder we have covered here since February, was beaten by IRA thugs:
And in another sign of tension, there were claims that the IRA had used the cover of loyalist violence to attack a friend of Robert McCartney, the nationalist man who was killed during a bar brawl in Belfast at the start of the year.Slugger notes reports that the
IRA is now threatening the late McCartney's fiancee.
