Ballymena

When did I type that it was the same as the rest of the UK?
I lived in NI. My husband is a Belfast born Catholic.
It is a million miles from the UK and has an extremely high number of pro-life, anti abortion activists.
It's a dominated by religion and misogyny on both sides of the coin.

Were there riots in response to the Ulster rugby players rale trial? Bet she was “a stupied girl making trouble for the lads” . And were there loud cries for Dennis Coulson to be deported from France?

Clearly you don't. Abortion law is not the same as in the rest of the UK.

Clearly you can no idea what you are typing about.

It's still difficult to get an abortion in NI and women regularly travel to England to have one. It's only legal up to 12 weeks.

What do you mean by that?
The Republic of Ireland has different laws to Northern Ireland obviously and I’m curious what reproductive rights issues you mean.

Really? A country still recovering from a level of mysogyny that allowed travesties like the magdelene laundries? I'd say northern Ireland is about 20-49 years behind in women's rights and domestic abuse compared to the rest of the UK. Many people still suffer mental health issues as a result of the time during the 'troublee' and everything else was ignored in that time including women's rights and children's rights. The mysogyny of the place (I'm in my 40s and I'd say the younger generation is improving but in my dating days I saw being from northern Ireland as a massive red flag straight away because of the men and boys I'd grown up with)

I'm from northern Ireland, very close to ballymena and coleraine infact but no longer live there. The racism is disgusting and I'm ashamed of the place. But then I largely left because of the small minded, backward views of the place. I go home a fair bit, miss it when I'm away but am inevitably horrified by the chat from people when I go home. Not my family and friends and also there are so many more progressive people who are not like this but it's like the secterian hatred never healed and turned outward for many. Like a lot of the secterian activity in the 90s and beyond it's born of poverty and a lack of opportunities. There was no government there basically for ages and things like child are hours were never made available in the way they are in the rest of the UK.

I'm so saddened by the footage. I wish I had something more hopeful to say.

NI and Ireland also need to sort out their home grown reproductive rights issues.

I keep remembering the clip of them singing about Michaela McAreavey's murder.

I haven't heard of any protests or demonstrations against domestic abuse or sexual assault which are at crisis levels in NI. I very much doubt women and children feel safer during the riots.

I feel actually quite shocked that rape rate in NI is high ;(

No, because it's got nothing to do with rape or vawg

I didn't see anything like this response to Jeffrey D's allegation and the likes of his kind.

Yeah. That worked out really well the last time they did it in NI.

Yep. It's the season for loyalists to burn people not like us out and destroy their own communities causing huge damage and costing loads.

It's disgusting and there's absolutely no excusing or justifying it.

The mob have set a migrant centre on fire now. It was housing Romanians. Absolutely horrific scenes, how has it come to this?.

Literally just said this to my partner. Best of it is they smash up their own city in the process

Ah. Maybe you meant "when we are paying* costs to keep them in prison*" in your previous post? Because you wrote "convict" in your comment that I quoted. 🙏

Anyway, the difficulty with just deporting people like that is that you need a deal with their home country that ensure they will actually serve jail time. Getting deported is not a particularly huge deterrent to committing a crime that would get 10 years or more for a local citizen. This would probably have to be a bilateral treaty, because even if there was an EU-wide agreement (I don't think there is), it would all have been torn up by you-know-what.

On conviction

However, when we are paying costs to convict immigrants instead of just deporting them back and getting their home country to foot the bill, thats where I have the problem.

On what basis are you going to decide to deport them, if not on the basis of a conviction in court? Do you think that people should be deported on the basis of someone just calling the police and saying "X attacked me"?

https://m.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/uda-vows-to-keep-up-attacks-on-catholic-homes-in-new-housing-development/a444709073.html

NI thugs are always settling things on fire while enjoying a street riot.
It's their method of violence.
From cross community fighting to terrorising foreigners.
Certain parts are extremely racist towards anyones who isn't British.

Northern Ireland is the least diverse region of the UK. just over 6% of the population were born out if the UK.

So it doesn’t really make sense. There are deeper things at play, immigrants just get the blame.

Ballymena is not a small town. It’s a town with a fair lot of union jacks on display. It can in no way be compared with a small old fashioned place in the Republic of Ireland where life has trundled along softly for years.