Ardoyne delegation meets US Consul
A delegation of Sinn Fein councillors and residents from Alliance Avenue in the Ardoyne today met the US Consul General Barbara Stevenson.
Councillor Margaret McClenaghan, who with Councillor Eoin O’Broin led the group, said they had requested the meeting to "highlight the ongoing UDA campaign directed at the nationalist community in Ardoyne and other areas of Belfast".
She said afterwards: "Since the announcement of the loyalist ‘no first strike’ policy there have been more than 40 pipe bombings, 17 gun attacks and 77 other attacks.
"Almost half of these attacks have been concentrated in north Belfast. Last night saw the latest shooting in which a family on Alliance Avenue narrowly escaped injury or death.
"We felt that it was important for the US Consul General Barbara Stevenson to hear first hand from residents about the reality for nationalists living on the interfaces. That reality is one of nightly attack with pipe bombs, blast bombs and gun attacks. Clearly the UDA is intent on killing people."
