Amanda Ferguson
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Yes, and information is flowing very quickly through to us today.
Obviously, the violence last night wasn't as serious as it was the night before.
However, a total of 12 police officers have been injured during the second night of disorder.
And we've also heard from the Secretary of State.
Hilary Benn saying that 16 arrests were made during the unrest as well.
So police overnight have issued a series of photographs of people that they would like to speak to in connection with the street disorder.
We've heard from the infrastructure minister, Liz Kimmins, talking about a vehicle in their depot being settled out last night.
And I'm sure a lot of people will have seen online and on various media sites the police coming under sort of sustained attack
up in Sandy Nose, which is in Mollusk.
It's on the outskirts of North Belfast and Watercannon was deployed in that particular area as well.
This morning, we've had quite disturbing information come through to us from Unison Trade Union official Patricia McKeown about the attacks that there have been or the targeting that there has been of health service staff where a health service worker was chased by masked men
into the hospital area and then she went on to do her shift and also the letters have been put through the doors of some residents who aren't white and if they're in the health service they've been sent intimidating letters and they're known to be hospital staff so there's quite a large number of people from other countries making
their homes and essentially if they weren't working in the health service it would collapse but that falls on deaf ears in some cases.
That's very sinister.
Yeah.
And, you know, we know that people from other countries are making their homes here because they're asylum seeking or they're coming to work in the health service.
So they're here to be entrepreneurs or they may have fallen in love with someone Irish.
And, you know, the same reasons why Irish people in both jurisdictions on this island have left these shores to go elsewhere.
You know, there's a reason why there's an Irish pub in every country.
Yeah, there was disturbances.