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The East Belfast Community Initiative has held positive discussions with local MP Emma Little-Pengelly in relation to the issues arising in Cantrell close, including the threats made to elderly loyalist community workers. In these discussions Emma re-iterated her strong desire to de-escalate tensions relating to the Cantrell close situation. As a result of these […]
Representatives from East Belfast Community Initiative held a series of meetings this morning following republican threats issued against to elderly loyalist community workers.
This mornings Irish News has revealed that two elderly loyalist community workers in East Belfast have received threats from dissident groupings http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2017/10/04/news/east-belfast-loyalists-receive-threats-as-tensions-rise-1153108/ The community workers are part of the East Belfast Community Initiative who have released the following statement: “It is disgraceful that two elderly community workers have been threatened by republicans. This is […]
On Monday night once again republican gunmen took to the streets in North Belfast, wounding a 30 year old man in what has been described as a punishment shooting. Restorative Justice groups which claim to mediate with dissident republican terror groups have been awarded substantial financial assistance from a number of funding outlets, including […]
Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly has moved away from the earlier party position which stated as fact that the UVF was behind threats in a shared housing development in south/east Belfast. The East Belfast Community Initiative, which mediates on behalf of ex combatants linked to east Belfast UVF, categorically dismissed the allegations of UVF involvement […]
On Thursday’s BBC Talk Back program Dominica McGowan was in the studio raising the issue of British flags within South Belfast. Ms McGowan was instrumental in organising a ‘shared space’ anti-culture rally which claimed at the time to be non-political and simply a gathering of concerned residents. Many Unionists warned at the time that […]
Convicted IRA bomber Gerry Kelly today told the BBC Talk Back program that an individual being sentenced to prison was no longer a member of the IRA. In this context the Sinn Fein MLA stated he left the IRA when he went into prison. Despite this Mr Kelly’s own account of the Maze escape […]
The PSNI are investigating a number of social media accounts linked to serving officers. This comes after one officer is potentially facing criminal proceedings for trolling a suspect in a case in which they were the investigating officer. The current investigation extends to allegations that PSNI officers not only abused and trolled a wide range […]
Senior Civil Servants have revealed that there is a belief that Sinn Fein have “no intention” of going back into a Stormont Executive and have backed the DUP’s claim that Michelle O’Neill’s most recent public announcement, calling for the talks to begin on the 28th August, was nothing more than a “stunt”. Sources within the […]
Former CEO of the Irish Football Association, Howard Wells OBE, has spoken exclusively to Unionist Voice about the poor financial management and challenges he faced when he arrived at the association. By Jamie Bryson Unionist Voice has primarily focused on political matters, however we did promise to bring a wider focus onto sporting issues and […]