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OVER 30 POLICE officers and an MP in Northern Ireland have been injured in six hours of rioting in Belfast overnight.
The riots kicked off when police stopped an Orange Order march for the traditional Twelfth of July commemorations from passing through the nationalist area of Ardoyne.
Police said that officers in North Belfast were attacked by individuals "wielding swords and missiles, including heavy masonry, golf balls, bottles and fireworks". Four officers were taken to hospital for treatment to injuries in this area, three having been knocked unconscious. Another officer sustained head and leg injuries.
Police also confirmed that a missile thrown at police lines in North Belfast struck DUP MP Nigel Dodds, who is also understood to have been knocked unconscious.
In East Belfast, a total of 12 officers were injured after being attacked and targeted with missiles and petrol bombs. A Mutial Aid officer sustained a broken leg while a PSNI officer has a suspected broken jaw. Water cannons were deployed to try to push back the rioters.
Six people were arrested in the area for offences ranging from disorderly behaviour and resisting arrest to assault. A 39-year-old male was also arrested for "doing a provocative act".
A video, released by the police cervice, shows the kind of violence officers were faced with:
(Video: Police ServiceNI/YouTube)
Today Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore condemned the violence and "disrespect for the rule of law" which he said was an affront to the decent people of the city.
"We are at one in our commitment and determination to uphold the law and support the police," he said. "Our thoughts in particular are with those who were injured upholding the peace."
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I want Phil Hogan banned within 3 years
@green burqa. He should be. Hes flown over 160,000km since he’s been in government – dropping 12 tonnes of CO2 emissions in the process
And he is happy to squeese the bollox off the Irish person.
I tought this Government liked smokescreens
Me too
If at all possible this year
You can F. U. *. K. O. F. F. Hogan!
3 days would be better again.
Owen McLove would make a better minister.
Yes smoky coal is this country top priority at the moment…..
Well of there really is 350 less deaths every winter after being introduced in only Dublin then it seems to be quite worthwhile to pursue…
Politics can’t only be concerned with one big priority all the time and let lesser issues fall by the wayside. That’s a recipe for long term disaster.
Who let phil out from under his rock.
Not the biggest issue but it is all part of the FG strategy: anything but the important issues
Well it’s a good job you’ll be bloody out of government in three years…
What about water fluoridation? Go####te!
If this lot stay in power much longer
People will be burning their floor boards let alone smoky coal!
I want Fine Gael banned within 3 years !
hogan is nothing but a total ignoramus .
Interesting that there are no plans to ban alcohol and cigarettes. But I guess the deaths they cause are ok because they’re “tax friendly” deaths. How this lemon got elected baffles me! What did he say to peoples when canvassing?? He must have pulled a “Pat Rabbitte”! Another farce from a farce of a government!!
Irish politicks is run by taking care of the voters in thier area, they only have to keep them happy with the odd new road or new swimming pool every few years and they get revoted.
Are you proposing a national ban on cigarettes and alcohol TJ? Of course that wouldnt be nanny state government at all!
And he hasn’t even done that !
#Sean. Not at all, but I would like some consistency. This is typical Irish backwards politics. Obviously there is a clear need to change our dependencies on fossil fuels but before we start to ban the use of these across the whole country, a viable, and consumer friendly alternative, should be put in place. What will the alternative be if this kind of policy does become law? Oh yes…we’ll all have to buy back the gas Shell are illegally extracting (well maybe not illegally, but cheaply at least) off the coast of Mayo! Or maybe we’ll go and buy it off Gazprom! Why isn’t Hogan progressing with the wind and wave energy that has been proven to generate ample supplies of enviro-friendly energy off the west coast? Its easy to put a ban in place, and alas its a clear reflection of the lazy have arsed approach that this idiot has used throughout the life of this spineless government.
Well answered man !!
As if there was nobody suffering from fuel poverty already. Phil bans smoky coal. And see the price of smokeless rise. Well done you twit.
Michael
The price increase and ban are two different matters and it’s rather silly to link them. The price increase comes from thenEU imposed carbon tax. Any chance you might apologise to the Minister?
i think the minister owes the country an apology hes been nothing short of a bully boy clueless pleb since edna gave him his job
I want Phil Hogan to be banned within the next 3 years. Can we have him banned?
Please tell me that this is some kind of sick Phil Hogan joke? Has this man got a vendetta against Irish People?
Why Ronan, for trying to lower our countries emissions which we are currently paying huge fines for not meeting our targets and for wanting to have better quality air which is a no brainier…well for some of us anyway. I really do wonder if some people bother to delve beneath the sensationalist headlines. Not every single little thing is aimed at screwing us.
Chuck, how do you heat your home?
I have an open fire which I rarely if ever use. I have just replaced my old oil boiler with a 97% fuel efficient condensing Grant boiler costing 1200 Euro which took me some time to save for. Over the past 4 years I have zoned my house and placed TRV valves on each rad to have total control of the heat flow and cost of my heating which has saved me a huge amount of money and will easily cover the cost of installation after a couple of years. I have changed all the zone thermostats to digital. While at home I use a oil electric rad to heat the room I am in while wearing thick hiking socks or my superman ones I got for Christmas. If this article was about a study by An independent study group the vast majority would be backing it. It’s common sense not to use coal turf. Just to clarify, I do think Hogan is a tool and I am in no way backing him as a politician
So how do you heat yours….
Woolly jumpers.
simple! Turf, installed stove and back boiler and it heats whole house, only oil we use is in morning for one hour and only then in winter. house is timber framed and stuffed to gills with insulation. we also use wood.
Still extremely inefficient with turf fired Back boiler heating the whole house. Why not zone it. Mine could do with better insulation but working on it
id rather be burning turf/wood than relying on oil and extricity to fully heat our home. it is zoned and we only use heat where we need it. upstairs requires very little heat as hot water pipes are running under the floors and its like underfloor heating up there. we never have to switch on immersion as we’ve constant supply of hot water. we cut our own turf and raise it ourselves. it works for us, we’re warm and comfortable and spend very little money doing it.
My boiler is 98% efficient and I do not use it regularly only when I am not home in the day and return On my return home I turn on oil for about an hour till I get my Stove lit and my cup of tea then it is off with the oil and enjoy a real cosy warm house Oil does not replace a good fire which if you have the back boiler you have unlimited HOT water too which equals cosy happy family
There are a lot of people going back to basics when heating their homes! more power to them! keep the stove lit Bernadette!
“Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin” now turns into “Níl aon tóin fuar mar do thóin fuar féin”. Abolish tax on smokless fuel, and people will start using it over night. Otherwise mister with your let-them-eat-cake attitude to people freezing in their homes (I’m sure you’re not), trott on!!!
Well said Ian! Hope you are well !!
Why is it that each time I see that pompous, ignoramus, P Hogan, I get a feeling of déjà vu ? Could it possibly be P Flynn in different coloured snake skin ?!
Nope! I think its because he looks like the professor from the muppets. Guess that makes Kenny beaker then.
If they taxed ‘hot air’, the revenue from the dail chambers could soon cure all our financial woes.
‘Smokey coal’ sounds like a jazz musician
If phill hogan was burned I’d say it would cause a fair bit of pollution?
Please stop using this fossil fuel, use that fossil fuel instead.
Fupp off phil you muppet and do something useful with yourself.
350 deaths from what? Is he linking smokey coal to random deaths or something?
Coals and flu
Resipitory illness , asthma, bronchitis , lung and throat cancer etc
Sean
Since you asked the question without trying to understand let me advise and then you won’t make the same mistake again! Smokey coal produces a substance referred to as particulate matter which was a massive pollutant in Dublin thirty years ago and every winter was a contributory factor in hundreds of deaths. In fact on some days it appeared as if the City was on fire there was so much smog in the air. After the ban was introduced by Mary Harney the improvement in air quality was immediate and spectacular. The Minister is quite right in what he proposes and I would go further by saying he has an obligation to ban smokey coal.
Is there any evidence of this link?
Sean, there’s plenty of research done in this area, WHO claim there’s an estimated 300,000 deaths world wide as a direct result of burning fossil fuels.
Wow, he should be given the Nobel prize for this. We really don’t pay politicians enough for their contribution if you ask me.
Watch for illegal tree felling increase…..where’s here’s a will there’s a way…get yer logs ……
Every time I see that mans face, it puts me in bad form. Only in Ireland could a pompous, arrogant bully like Hogan become a cabinet minister. What does it say about Kenny?
Rodrigo
Are you suggesting the ban on smokey fuel in Dublin should be repealed?
I’m not suggesting anything Rick. I’m just expressing how strongly I feel about a man like Hogan being in power. He epitomises everything that is wrong with this Country. I personally think smokey coal should’ve been banned a long time ago, if you really care to know!
I wonder if the government would have thought of this if they had not got a problem with turf cutters and peat burning in general.
Also, I am not a scientist, but I would have that that it is a bit disingenuous to suggest that the health improvements won from banning smokey coal in large urban areas would have any relevance to rural locations where there is low housing concentration and massive dilution/ dispersion effects
It will be a cold day in hell when we stop cutting and burning our own turf! back boilers and stoves are been installed at an alarming rate around the country! Fire in living room is now heating whole houses and saving people on oil/gas, government won’t like this idea though!
So, Mr Hogan, can you please advise us how you would like us to heat our homes? if you don’t want us using turf or coal, oil and gas is depleting, if Bertie has his way all our forests will be sold off, so please do tell how we will be heating our homes in the coming years, or should we all just move to Miami? bullying people into compliance is not the way to go! tell you what Philly! we’ll keep cutting our turf and heating our homes how we see fit while you come up with another plan! off you go now and don’t let the door hit you on the way out!!
How many deaths has this shower of muppets caused with their austerity policies?
China is opening a coal fired power station a week – banning a bag of coal in Ireland won’t make the slightest bit of difference
Yea but it looks good on the cv for kenny and the Hulk, Like the plastic bag tax. Another big two fingers to the need of people.
Being taxed to “debt”.
How much carbon wouldn’t be belched into the atmosphere if that fat fook didnt hop a flight to every conference, meeting or chat. Wont even mention the 5 star hotels or fine eateries the pr1ck charges back to the state. A vile rancid man.
350 deaths. … If the government are serious about saving money in the health service, and about preserving the nations health, … Ban cigarettes. Were talking thousands of premature deaths, and 10s of thousands of hospital visits per year. Yes it will take 20 or 30 years to reap the benefits, but it would be worth it.
Probably something to do with revenue perhaps ?… You’ll probably find that the tax take on smokeless fuel is more than on smokey fuel.
Can he also ban bullshit bellowing politicians
Smokeless coal is shite. Real stuff all the way baby
Smokie and the bandit
True, he’s nothing but a Sum’ Bitch
If phill hogan was burned I’d say it would cause a fair bit of pollution?
I think we would all happily take the risk! I wonder, does he realise that he is one of the most hated people in the country?
U Mis spelt celebration there Maurice
Hogan your a muppet.
Well put rodrigo
Phil Hogan should be banned
I think Big Phil is the biggest polluter I’m Ireland with the amount off effluent he discharges from his gob on a daily basis..
The man is a pig! The minister for smokey bacon.
Give people a good affordable alternative first you clown
Did that “Tullaroan Twit” never hear of ” smokeless” coal. Educated or what?
If that prat is coming with this shite now, I’m wondering what’s going on behind the scenes. They usually roll out this prat when there is a more serious issues at hand. A diversion or smokescreen of some sort maybe…..
Banning fossil fuels is only the first step, stay tuned for smart meters and other stunts to keep the peasants in check.
How would this effect moneypoint?
PS Hogan is only enforcing EUSSR nonsense which the majority of the other parts of the 4th Reich is ignoring.
Subsides through austerity is happening ban austerity right away
To be fair I banned smokey from the nightclub last Friday, he’s an absolute nightmare with drink on him!
Ask The Idiot Hogan…is your furniture smokeless ?
Hogan wants to ban smoky coal but what is being done about Chem Trails?Do we even have a policy on stopping this pollution of our skies? Smoky Coal ? What a joke!
Loads of room up his big arsehole for a few tons of coal ,Let’s hope it’s burning before they shovel it into him .
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