Ciarán Dunbar

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249 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Newscast · Who’s Causing The Violence In Belfast? · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

And when I was driving out, I found myself

confronted by a large crowd of, on one of the roads in North Belfast, black clad men with their faces covered.

And I looked at it and then I realised there were other people fleeing towards me.

And I recognised one of them as a photographer, Mal McCann with the Irish News.

He was running with his photography gear.

Journalists were fleeing because they were being chased.

And as I say, chased with menace by men, perhaps young people, I'm not sure, with their faces covered.

There was a helicopter in the air.

I believe people have seen this on other outlets.

I can remember very well because I realised from experience, I need to get out of here and the car in front of me, listen, riots and these things, they're not for beginners.

The car in front of me had frozen solid in the street and I realised, I just put my hand on my horn and I suppose I may have said some expletives, get out of the road, we need to get out of here.

And then on to open empty roads on one side and on the other side, complete, you know, a complete traffic jam.

So that's when I sort of, I was very aware that it was going to be a very hot night.

Yes.

Now, the word has been used by nationalist politicians to describe what we saw.

And it is a very loaded word everywhere.

And it's a very loaded word in Northern Ireland because of our history.

And that is the word pogrom.

I believe when you look at the dictionary definition of the word pogrom, you know...

people attempting to remove a certain group of people without targeting any particular individual and doing this on multiple occasions in the same place i believe that's a program and i believe that we did see a small-scale program in belfast last night where groups of men and i think this is the worst part of it uh because yes property was destroyed of course it was um but we saw

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