Rory Carroll
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Today in Focus · The view from Belfast after a night of violent protests - The Latest · 10 Jun 2026
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Well, on one level, the scenes here in Northern Ireland are very similar to what unfolds, has unfolded in England.
But, of course, the Troubles, the history of Northern Ireland, echoes through what we're seeing this week.
In some of the very same streets where houses were burned out last night was where mobs burned out Catholic families back in 1969 at the dawn of the Troubles.
And so, you know, there's kind of a precedent for ethnic cleansing and the purging of the other houses.
And also the iconography of the Troubles, you know, masked men, dark clothing out in the streets like that.
We saw that so many times in different contexts during the Troubles.
So in a sense, there's like these young guys now are almost like cosplaying, you know, these memories of our archival footages that they've seen of the Troubles.
Well, people here, and this is Catholics and Protestants, and surveys show this, that they often many think that immigrants and especially asylum seekers are not contributing to Northern Ireland society, that they're a drain on the economics.
And because they're given, you know, the sentiment of the narrative is that they are given preferential treatment for housing, that they are given handouts by the state.
And so people are resentful of that.
And plus that they are imposing, you know, their alien culture.
And this is a sort of a rhetoric that is also being reflected by politicians and in some cases more explicitly than others.
And so for a lot of people here, they feel that, you know, they didn't want this.
Nobody asked them, nobody consulted them.
Do you want to live in a multicultural, multi-ethnic society?
Northern Ireland used to be mono-ethnic, it was completely white up until, you know, within almost two generations.
And so, you know, people feel, well, we're responding to this.
Well, at a micro level, clearly the numbers show that immigrants contribute economically to the society, that they contribute more in terms of driving the economy.
But at a micro level, if you're in a loyalist housing estate, you don't necessarily see the role, the economic impact of immigrants.
What you do see is that the house down the road that your aunt or your cousin hoped to get doesn't get it because it's a family from Romania or Bulgaria or Sudan.
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