Belfast RIOTS: Northern Ireland leaders SPEAK OUT as ‘robust’ response to ‘HATEFEST’ promised

Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O’Neill has said that bad actors are “orchestrating hate and fear” online in the wake of the stabbing in Belfast on Monday. She said that a lot of the “horrific attacks” on family homes and attacks on buses, police cars and first responders had happened “in the main” in unionist and loyalist areas. She also said that Chief Constable Jon Boutcher had told her they are “continuing to assess” whether loyalist paramilitaries are involved. UUP leader Jon Burrows has said that while talk of closing borders is “a cliché”, there was “an issue” in relation to how a suspect in the Belfast stabbing arrived in Northern Ireland. He was speaking after his party met with Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn at Stormont Continue reading at Manchester Evening News: Police deploy water cannon on rioters in latest disorder after Belfast stabbing https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-deploy-water-cannon-rioters-34101430 LIKE | COMMENT | SUBSCRIBE | SHARE #uknews #violence #protest