'They have Catholic sounding names' - Northern Ireland couple terrified after threatening graffiti daubed outside home

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'They have Catholic sounding names' - Northern Ireland couple terrified after threatening graffiti daubed outside home

A Co Antrim couple have been left terrified for their safety after graffiti was daubed outside their home telling them they have "24 hours to get out".

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

A Co Antrim couple have been left terrified for their safety after graffiti was daubed outside their home telling them they have “24 hours to get out”

"They are trying to get on with their lives, but it seems they can’t do so and that there is no one to protect them. I would see this as a hate crime.

The worried mum said the couple live in a “very Protestant area” but they have names that could be perceived as Catholic.

“They are not Catholic,” she said.

(There is a very high level of segregation in Northern Irish society and in many ways the two communities operate independently. For the most part, Protestants and Catholics live in different areas, are educated in different schools, attend different churches.)
(This last paragraph from an article at The Northern Ireland Religion Conflict - The conflict )

 

[RedSoxFan45]

At its core, I really don’t think it’s a Catholic/Protestant issue. It was in the past, but at this point, it’s an ethnic conflict with outdated labels. That’s st least in my opinion. While Northern Ireland is more religious than other parts of the UK, it’s still getting secularized, thus are they really fighting over religion?

 

[AlNg]

graffiti was daubed outside their home telling them they have “24 hours to get out”

The only people who should get out of northern Ireland are those colonialists from the UK who have invaded Ireland and caused untold misery and suffering to the indigenous Irish people.