Stefan Cackowsk moved to Belfast to “build a new life”.
His neighbours assumed he was Catholic.
He got a brick through his window.
As soon as he informed everyone that he was Protestant, the
intimidation stopped.
Result!
Watch here
Shown last night on Channel 4’s 4Thought.tv
“I’m a problem you’re never going to solve.”
Yikes.
Jun Tzu – ‘Born In Belfast’.
Damien writes:
A portly gent from Belfast… …video is clichéd but he’ not half bad.
Loyalist protesters clash with members of the PSNI yesterday evening in East Belfast following a protest regarding the decision to restrict the flying of the Union flag over City Hall. Protesters were blocked from returning to East Belfast via Queen’s Bridge and trouble flared when they re-reouted themselves past the bottom of the Nationalist Short Strand.
‘It’s Not Just The Flag. They Want To Take Everything British Away’ (Guardian)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
It’s strangely uplifting.
Tourist Walk – brothers Breandán Kearney, Mike Kearney, Dónal Kearney and Oisín Kearney – are a band that play live music (folksy vocal doo wop and whatnot) in various locations ‘Like tourists…on a walk’.
This is the peripatetic harmonisers performing the Foy Vance song ‘Guiding Light’ at the top of Victoria Square Shopping Centre, Belfast.
And not a burning fleg in sight.
Protesters try to storm city Hall security Man hurt Awful scenes
— Sharon O’Neill (@sharon_utv) December 3, 2012
Riot Police arrived city hall
— Sharon O’Neill (@sharon_utv) December 3, 2012
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDKN5llnU4w
This afternoon.
It’s a franchise.
Thanks Finn McDuffie
Have the heartless zealots stopped, for even one moment, to consider the anguish and confusion these people are experiencing? Their desperate need for calm, objective, non-judgemental support, for someone to sit down with them and explain the options — and I mean all the options, including termination, as well as continuing the pregnancy — so that they can make an informed decision about how to proceed with such a momentous choice, one that may affect their whole lives? Of course they haven’t.
They don’t need to speak to real women, or place themselves in their shoes. Because they have already made up their minds: abortion is always, always, always wrong. They may use the language of compassion and care, they may adopt the rhetoric of choice, they may talk with saccharine sentimentality about saving the lives of little babies.
Yet their sole objective is single-minded and ruthless: to prevent terminations, no matter what the cost to the mother or, ultimately, to the child.
Why Pro-Life Zealots Needed To Show More Compassion (Finola Meredith, Belfast Telegraph)
Ireland’s First Private Abortion Clinic Braced For Protests (Henry McDonald, Guardian)
Nationalists in the Ardoyne protest after a Orange Order parade passed through the area yesterday.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
Spotted at Titanic Studios Belfast, home to Game Of Thrones
(Thanks gillygilly007)
