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On Wednesday evening social media was buzzing with rumours that the comedian Russell Brand had visited a loyalist protest camp in North Belfast.

It has been confirmed to BBC News NI that the visit did take place but no one on Russell Brand’s team wished to comment.

The visit was organised by Nobel Prize winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire.

Loyalists have been protesting out at Twaddell Avenue since July following a decision to restrict an orange parade.

Meanwhile, new subtitled footage (above) has emerged from his recent Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman.

Russell Brand visits loyalist protest camp at Twaddell Avenue, Belfast (BBC News NI)

BWFzCU3IEAATUjU.jpg largeLoyalists Against Democracy (LAD), a cross-community group of satirising, irreverent like-minded individuals have been subjected to a backlash of sorts from the likes of ‘genuine‘ loyalists of late.

LAD were founded last December at the height of the Belfast City Hall fleg shenanigans and quickly gained a large following via Facebook with their endless lampooning of the flegger’s racist, sectarian and semi-literate rants.

Their mission in their own words is:

to drive sectarianism out of our country through the use of satire and parody.

As LAD post videos and photos highlighting offensive material of loyalists on their Facebook page, loyalists in turn are reporting their own material to Facebook as offensive. This is the paradox which could only happen in Ireland Ulster Northern Ireland the United Kingdom are pravence whatevs.

For the moment, they are back on Facebook again. This time as BELFASTLAD.

In the meantime, they hope followers and friends will contact Facebook and highlight their plight.

Stick it in a paaaaan-nationalist front.

@LADFLEG

SuperLADtube

Pic: Jim Fitzpatrick

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A mural of soccer legend George Best is being replaced by a painting of a UVF gunman and the quote ‘Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed‘ in Sydenham, East Belfast.

The Best mural was created in 2010 with the help of Belfast City Council’s Peace III project with a grant of £1,500 to cover materials which itself, replaced a UVF mural at the time.

George Best mural replaced by image of UVF gunman (BBC News NI)

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Loyalists held a protest in Bushmills on Saturday rather than attend the opening of an art project on which they had been working for 18 months – because it was being unveiled by a member of Sinn Fein.
But in spite of the protest the Peace Three art project of a cow was opened in the Millennium Park by Moyle District Council chairman, Sinn Fein councillor Cara McShane and DUP vice chair of Moyle council Robert McIlroy.
Last night chairman of Bushmills Residents and Environmental Forum, Derwyn Brewster, said they had asked councillor McShane “that if she was coming along, not to be speaking in Irish and not to take the limelight and to be low-key”.

 

Loyalists boycott own art project (Gemma Murray, Belfast News Letter)

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)