Sinister UVF figure a key catalyst of Belfast violence
GERRY MORIARTY
ANALYSIS: Sectarian tensions, lack of jobs and a supergrass have all ruptured the peace. At least one man must be stopped
THE SO-CALLED “Beast from the East” took over the Ulster Volunteer Force in east Belfast about six years ago and has strengthened his power base since then, according to well-placed loyalist sources. He and some of his senior lieutenants are chiefly responsible for the violence in east Belfast over recent days, they say.
He makes his money mainly from “gangster-on-gangster or bad-on-bad crime”, which is chiefly about drug dealing and extorting other criminals – while also managing to maintain some distance from these activities to keep him, so far, out of prison. How to clip his wings is the challenge for the police and also for other members of the UVF.
These nights we’ve witnessed one of those incongruous juxtapositions that used to be common in Northern Ireland but aren’t so regular now since the (relative) peace: there was Rory McIlroy on Tuesday evening just landed on a private jet at George Best Belfast City Airport posing with his US Open trophy with the great yellow cranes of Harland and Wolff in the background.
At the same time and under the same cranes, east Belfast was flaring up for another night of serious rioting. The wonder is that nobody was killed such was the level of violence and the recklessness of those who fired weapons from the loyalist side and from the nationalist Short Strand side of east Belfast over recent nights.
Press Association photographer Niall Carson was up from Dublin for yesterday’s Rory McIlroy homecoming celebrations and, unfortunately for him, was additionally detailed to cover Tuesday night’s rioting in east Belfast. It’s the nature of the job.
He was struck in the thigh when, according to police, dissident republicans fired from the Short Strand side of the interface. He was in a “comfortable” state yesterday afternoon and hoped to be released from hospital yesterday evening or last night. His situation could have been far worse: one report said the gunman who shot him just stuck his head over a wall and “fired randomly without looking”.
So, a bad and menacing start to the summer season, with Ardoyne on July 12th looming. What’s happening suits the agenda of the dissident republicans. Bad enough the violence in east Belfast but it is further stoking the simmering sectarian tensions in other flashpoint areas. Some efforts are being made to calm emotions ahead of the annual return Orange Order feeder parade past the Ardoyne shops on July 12th night, the scene of serious trouble last year and previous years. The east Belfast disorder will make it more difficult for those efforts to be successful. Dissidents will exploit these opportunities.
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