Belfast East
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Sep 12, 2026
Catriona PerryCORRESPONDENT
His view on the Good Friday Agreement still stands.
Catriona PerryCORRESPONDENT
We've had a statement from the leader of the DUP in Northern Ireland, Gavin Robinson, an MP for East Belfast.
Catriona PerryCORRESPONDENT
He says, "President Trump knows better than most that elections matter.
Catriona PerryCORRESPONDENT
Northern Ireland's constitutional future will be decided by the people of Northern Ireland, not by commentary in London, Dublin, or Washington.
Micheál MartinGUEST
And there isn't anyway, because anyone who knows Colt is very clear that it's music first.
Micheál MartinGUEST
And I attended the Loyalist band parades, there's a better term for it then, in East Belfast and the Ulster Scots dancing and so on like that.
Micheál MartinGUEST
That was part of Coltis.
Micheál MartinGUEST
If you had said to me 10 years ago that that would have happened, I think we'd have all eaten our heads off.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
Joan and her husband Edward, whom she affectionately called Ted, had five children including Brian, two girls named Isabel and Joan, and two boys William and the eldest Edward.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
The family lived on Welsh Street just off Woodstock Road in East Belfast.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
By 1973 the violence in Northern Ireland had peaked, with over 500 people killed the previous year, many of whom were civilians.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
The community was divided, and sectarian violence was a constant threat.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
His mother couldn't sleep that night, and Joan didn't dare stray far from the house in case Brian returned or someone called with news, so she stood outside calling his name, praying he would come home.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
The police force at the time was the Royal Ulster Constabulary, or the RUC.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
Officers and military police began going door to door throughout East Belfast asking if anyone had seen the missing boy.
Benjamin FittonNARRATOR
Local children recalled seeing Brian in the park.
Peter CinnamondHOST
We spent a bit of time last week talking about those two big moves in Brooks going to Coleraine and McMenamin leaving Coleraine.
Peter CinnamondHOST
McMenamin coming up to the North Coast was seen as the big transfer of the window and There was a lot of talk last week in regards that it just didn't work out and by all accounts this move to East Belfast for him looks to have suited all parties here.
Peter CinnamondHOST
And as we've just been discussing, it feels as though you've got enough in reserve to hopefully not be hit as hard as a player of that level, of the level he could potentially reach once again in the Ash League.
Peter CinnamondHOST
it won't be as big an impact as perhaps just losing him outright might have been.
Allison MorrisGUEST
But there was never a day that you come into work and something hadn't happened.
Allison MorrisGUEST
There was trouble in the Short Strand, in East Belfast.
Ciarán DunbarHOST
This is post-ceasefires, post-Good Friday Agreement, well into the period, years into the so-called, I wish it could be like this all the time period, that peace had broken out and people think, when we look back at this rather rose-tinted version of events...
Ciarán DunbarHOST
there were ceasefires there was a good Friday agreement and it's been rosy ever since and it really wasn't there was some extremely bitter
Cormac MooreHOST
And the reason why the split happened in soccer, there was a high chance it was going to happen anyway.
Cormac MooreHOST
but the actual specific catalyst for it happening was Shelburne were in an Irish Cup semi-final against Glen Torn the Lorgan based team the Glen Avon the Glen Avon the Lorgan based team he calls himself an historian ladies and gentlemen Glen Avon or Lorgan Glen Torn or East Belfast come on pledge won my friend Glen Avon actually lost to Glen Torn in the final but but Shelburne had to go up to Belfast for the semi-final and it was a draw and everyone assumed that the replay would be in Dublin but the IFA sub-committee decided the Protest and Appeals Committee decided actually no it's too violent in Dublin so it has to be played in Belfast and what year was this? 1921.
Cormac MooreHOST
And some of the worst violence in that period, 2022, was in Belfast.
Cormac MooreHOST
Actually, a lot of it was civilians.
Paul HowardGUEST
I really love kneecap, but there's something about a balaclava that just, you know, triggers me.
Mick CliffordHOST
And as you say, if it triggers the likes of you, and I'd have to say it myself as well, what does it do in East Belfast and Portadown and areas where people, where the symbolism of that goes to the core of their being effectively.
Mick CliffordHOST
And okay, you have two sides, but if people want to, it's not exactly what you might call the welcome mat, one more
Paul HowardGUEST
day.
Mairead CorriganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The women came from the Shankill.
Mairead CorriganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They came from East Belfast on the buses.
Mairead CorriganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They came down from Turf Lodge carrying their banners.
Mairead CorriganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They came from Ballymurphy.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
And actually, he's probably right because on Saturday the 27th of June, there are huge Orange Order parades across Belfast.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
The inevitable fighting and rioting escalates into sort of massive street fighting and gun battles, and the, the fiercest fighting ends up being at a place called the Short Strand, which is a Catholic enclave in East Belfast, and it's around a church, St. Matthew's Church, Catholic church.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
And this is where the, the Provisionals first enter the story.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
There's a small group of them.
Tim CairnsPANELIST
I'd forgotten there was a Naomi nickname.
Tim CairnsPANELIST
I don't think we'll see the Jinja Ninja in East Belfast posters this year.
Tim CairnsPANELIST
Well,
David McCannHOST
we'll wait and see.
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