Who says the political climate has changed in Northern Ireland? A young man has been fined £85 by the PSNI for *hurling in a Belfast street. Twenty-year-old Thomas Thibodeau was enjoying a puck-about with a friend on Jerusalem Street on Wednesday evening when two **PSNI officers intervened and issued him with a fixed penalty notice for disorderly behaviour. Antrim County Board chairman Jim Murray says the incident is reminiscent of the dark days in Northern Ireland: I thought those days had gone, he states in The Irish News. Its something we will be taking up ourselves and we will be arranging a meeting with the PSNI. Its not on and is taking us back to the dark days. A **PSNI spokesman explained how hurling can be construed as disorderly behaviour: It is the manner in which the equipment is being used or the associated behaviour and risk that this may pose to others, i.e. anti-social behaviour and criminal damage. Sinn Feins Pat Sheehan has called for discrimination against Irish games to be stamped out immediately: At best, there seems to be a degree of ignorance when it comes to the PSNIs attitude to gaelic games. At worst, this behaviour is a throwback to an attitude which treated all things Irish as alien. *Hurling is Irelands national game played all over Ireland in front of crowds of 20 to 50 thousand people on most Sundays. **PSNI in the Police Service Northern Ireland.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:41:10 +0000
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