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TWO NORTHERN IRISH politicians have vowed not to be deterred even after being delivered envelopes with bullets.
Alliance Party Belfast councillor Emmett McDonough-Brown and south Belfast representative Duncan Morrow were each hand-delivered bullets on Friday.
They say that despite the threatening deliveries, they will not be put off their jobs.
“We will not be deterred from representing the people of South Belfast by those who hand delivered these bullets to our homes,” said McDonough-Brown, who said that the party’s non-sectarian ideology “scares” some people.
“Elected representatives should be able to work on behalf of their constituents without the fear of violence or intimidation.
“These people are afraid of what Alliance stands for. Their attempt at intimidation will not succeed. My colleagues and I will continue our work to make Belfast a more open and prosperous city for everyone.”
Duncan Morrow said that those responsible were “mistaken” if they believed
“Those responsible are mistaken if they believe that this will stop us from continuing our work to deliver a shared future for everyone in our society. They offer Belfast nothing and only wish to see a return to the dark days of the past.”
A PSNI spokesperson told TheJournal.ie that they couldn’t comment on individual cases.
“We do not discuss the security of any individual. However, if we receive information that a person’s life may be at risk, we will inform them accordingly. We never ignore anything which may put an individual at risk.”
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For some people, voting for an alternative politician is not enough. Imagine our society if such people held power!
The people doing this very seldom out themselves forward for election and in the odd case they do they remain unelected.
Tell that to people in Louth, Kerry and Dublin.
True but there are more than one way to get into power, these thugs seem to believe in the undemocratic route.
Mmmm, let me see, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Gerry Kelly et al
Neil Lennon(and some if his irish born celtic players) got the bullet treatment too. This is only a few miles up the road folks
It’s the gun delivered bullets they should be worried about…..
Return to sender ……
Absolute cowardly filth! Good to see the hundreds of comments from the usual shinners condemning this violence!
Suppose We’ll see them raise their heads again when journal wind them up with a water meter post!
It’s actually a disgusting thing to inflict on anyone.
The knock on effect to the persons family & friends must be horrendous.
I sincerly hope those responsible are caught and soon.
This behaviour is totally unacceptable .
i really don’t know they’re still wasting their time at this crap. they should be sending them elsewhere.
You do realise that it is mstly the loyslists who hate the alliance party, just look at the Anne Lo incident.
p.s. why do you feel the need to paint all Sinn Fein voters in the same light, i would imagine about 70% of my townland vote for them and are not terrorists.
Sorry tractor not that it really matters but unionists have a bigger prob with alliance
There was a good auld show on BBC1 a few weeks ago called “21 up new generation” so there was which featured a 21 year old fellows involvement with the Alliance party.
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