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Loyalists Attack Churches in Ballymena
The police have balmed loyalists for a "spate" of attacks against catholic churches and catholic-owned pubs in the area, following a recent application for a republican parade in the town. One bar was the target of arsonists while the remains of a petrol bomb were found at another.
Crebilly Catholic church on the outskirts of Ballymena and All Saints Church were both covered in paint. There's really no excuse for that simple-minded bigotry. This is a completely different level of degeneracy from the attacks on the pubs. I don't think there could have been any justification for attacking a simple house of worship, and I'm an atheist.
The parade in question by the "Friends of William Orr" (aye, ballocks) is due to take place on 9th August, the anniversary of internment celebrations. Quite what a 1798 Young Irelander (Protestant I believe) has to do with internment in the 1970s I'm not quite sure.