Joe Pike
speaker
1,291 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Joe Pike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 16 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.
Appearances
Police, I think, have been conscious of the need to try to put as much information from their side as it were into the public domain as possible.
They've also been countering misinformation, disinformation that they say is online.
For example, they say they are aware of inaccurate information
online about the victim's condition.
They said they can confirm he is in a serious condition in hospital.
So that's one example of the online commentary that the police have identified as being untrue, as being inaccurate.
And also politicians, for example, the leaders of the five main parties in the DeWalt Assembly at Stormont, all put out
a joint statement today calling for calm and asking for the police to be given space to allow justice, as they said, to take its course.
But also there have been appeals for people not to speculate online and that if they have information about this, if they do genuinely know anything about this attack, well, the police is who they should be speaking to about that.
They shouldn't be posting it on the internet.
Yes, the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is open, essentially.
There are no checkpoints there.
So you've had politicians, particularly the likes of the traditional unionist voice leader, Jim Allister is the MP for Northern Ireland.
North Antrim, other unionist parties, too, pointing to that and saying that they think it is a weak spot, as it were, in the UK's immigration system.
So that is something that is a topic of political debate here in Northern Ireland and also, as we've been hearing in Westminster as well.
So this will be something that will certainly be
analysed, I think the more we find out about the suspect's immigration status and the specifics, if you like, of the journey into the UK, into Northern Ireland, well, that is something that will inevitably, I think, feed into that debate and be discussed as part of that wider debate around immigration, in particular,
Northern Ireland's place in that, and particularly in the case of Northern Ireland, well, it is about that land border as many, as I say, particularly unionist politicians will see it.
Yeah, it is just about a year ago since we had a week really of rioting in Northern Ireland that started in Ballymena and County Antrim but spread to other towns as well.
The spark really there in Ballymena last June came after a protest over an alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl.
Showing 641–660 of 1,291 · page 33 of 65
← Previous
Next →