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Belfast city council in uproar

antrim | miscellaneous | news report

Wednesday February 04, 2004 13:56

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Anti Racism motion causes sectarian division

Anti racism was the issue to bring about sectarian clashes at Belfast city council yesterday

An anti racism motion condemning racist attacks lead to uproar and sectarian clashes in Belfast city hall chambers last night.

In some of the most heated scenes seen in years in Belfast’s council chamber Nationalists and Unionists went at it tooth and nail at each others throats. It eventually got so intense that the Lord Mayor of Belfast had to adjourn the meeting. When it resumed a compromise motion condemning all racists’ attacks was put forward but the SDLP refused to withdraw the original motion which had linked loyalist paramilitaries to the recent attacks. So it went into uproar again

With the chamber now in pandemonium the meeting had to be called to an abrupt end with no motion passed and with each side of the divide shouting and accusing the other side as condoners of racism

What a lesson of sectarian division over the issue of an anti racism motion for political representatives to send society who had only just rallied against racism.

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Comments (33 of 33)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Why sectarian?	observer	Wed Feb 04, 2004 14:24
2	Easy	Easy	Wed Feb 04, 2004 14:59
3	Loyalist Attacks	Not So Easy	Wed Feb 04, 2004 15:04
4	Easy	Easy	Wed Feb 04, 2004 16:18
5	Don't Expect Much More from SDLP bigots	Hume Hater	Wed Feb 04, 2004 16:56
6	My my	Nordie	Wed Feb 04, 2004 16:59
7	SDLP Didnt Launch Racist Attacks	Observor	Wed Feb 04, 2004 17:01
8	Hume is not God	Hume Hater	Wed Feb 04, 2004 17:04
9	Reply to "Observor "	Hume Hater	Wed Feb 04, 2004 17:06
10	Loyalists Sectarian	Observor	Wed Feb 04, 2004 17:09
11	Same topic being debated on SOT	slugfan	Wed Feb 04, 2004 17:22
12	SDLP	matt	Wed Feb 04, 2004 18:02
13	Sounds like the SDLP are right	John Meehan	Wed Feb 04, 2004 18:18
14	Not the left in general	matt	Wed Feb 04, 2004 18:38
15	tit for tat everywhere!!!!	soundmigration	Wed Feb 04, 2004 19:56
16	real	belfaster	Thu Feb 05, 2004 08:07
17	WHo was being sectarian?	matt	Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:11
18	In Agreement	D	Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:25
19	Condeming All attackd but really condeming none.	Fed Up With Stupidity	Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:27
20	Spot on, Fed Up	matt	Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:50
21	Point Taken Matt	John Meehan	Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:19
22	Link to pictures of rally	ARN	Thu Feb 05, 2004 17:49
23	The andytown news...	maalox	Thu Feb 05, 2004 18:28
24	Anti-Racist Agenda ?	By ANy Means Necesary	Thu Feb 05, 2004 18:37
25	Cromwell was right	Peter Midgley	Fri Feb 06, 2004 04:27
26	what?	Belfaster	Fri Feb 06, 2004 08:35
27	"Belfast's Growing Reputation as a Racist City..Deserved"	John Meehan	Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:31
28	snobs backside of ulster	Andre & Ahab shoukri fan club	Fri Feb 06, 2004 23:23
29	City Hall Anti-Rascist Debacle	Cllr Eoin O'Broin	Sat Feb 07, 2004 16:36
30	thanks	belfaster	Sat Feb 07, 2004 22:30
31	Andre & Ahab shoukri fan club discriminates against southerners!	anti-maalox	Mon Feb 09, 2004 16:07
32	As rome burns	toffs/binky oldboys are bitter and sore losers	Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:25
33	shit floats	Cultra tea set	Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:52

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