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| Rioter assaults priest at parade | |
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| A priest has been assaulted by a rioter as he worked to calm tensions at an Orange march in Belfast on Friday. | |
| Father Gary Donegan, parish priest at Holy Cross, Ardoyne, was trying to stop youths throwing stones at police as the Tour of the North parade passed. | Father Gary Donegan, parish priest at Holy Cross, Ardoyne, was trying to stop youths throwing stones at police as the Tour of the North parade passed. |
| One of the youths pushed and jostled him. Father Donegan said it showed a lack of respect for any authority. | |
| "Probably that young person doesn't recognise my authority or anybody else's for that matter," he said. | "Probably that young person doesn't recognise my authority or anybody else's for that matter," he said. |
| "We don't want this. The community is tired of it. For a young person to come up and be involved in what is commonly known as recreational rioting is not acceptable." | "We don't want this. The community is tired of it. For a young person to come up and be involved in what is commonly known as recreational rioting is not acceptable." |
| Sinn Féin is blaming dissident republicans for minor skirmishes at the parade. | Sinn Féin is blaming dissident republicans for minor skirmishes at the parade. |
| A small number of missiles were thrown as Orangemen passed the shop fronts on the Ardoyne Road in north Belfast. | A small number of missiles were thrown as Orangemen passed the shop fronts on the Ardoyne Road in north Belfast. |