Because it seems there are no police about the holylands or any other student area in belfast at the early hours of the morning when these things generally happen. Yet there are plenty during the day when nothing’s happening (and I’m not talking about on st paddy’s they’re there a lot of other days). And they just dander about, doing nothing, well… possibly scratching their behinds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nchc05Hv2c

http://www.facebook.com/BelfastHolylands

Regardless of who continued it it was students who started it and students must take the blame.

The rising level of offenders living within the community includes four the authorities believe pose a high risk of trying to inflict serious harm on others.

And it does not include almost 80 more who are either still in jail for their predatory crimes or else facing prosecution over suspected attacks.

With the Northern Ireland Sex Offender Strategic Management Committee’s annual report confirming south Belfast has the biggest proportion under scrutiny, a top police officer insisted the best possible safety checks were in place.

Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris, the Committee’s Chairman, said: “Protection of the public is the top priority for all of the agencies involved and I can assure the public that there is now a well-defined system in place, coupled with real commitment to working together, to make Northern Ireland’s homes, streets and communities safer for all our families.”

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/2007/0807/ireland/almost-700-paedophiles-monitored-in-the-north-322449.html#ixzz0i75MNYJW

these are the people your local representitives are supprting in the Holylands – not the students

they continually back the local population of the holylands. when all the cars were burnt out a few years ago was alex maskey, who’s from west belfast btw, out shouting about disgraceful behaviour? no.

there’s easily 5000 sinn fein votes amongst students in the holylands yet sinn fein continuously back the “long-term” residents.

i have sympathy for those who have lived there for forty or fifty years but realistically anyone who moved in there in the last 15 years knew what they were getting themselves into.

We should all get up to some mad stuff in the middle of the night. Pretending to be zombies, walking down a street backwards or anything else to make the people watching the cameras freak out.

Or possibly a mass “film-the-police” in response. They love that. As this guy shows:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/21/photographer-films-anti-terror-arrest

Leave the students alone. Thousands of Students are forced into crap housing in slums and then anyone’s surprised when they try and enjoy themselves? I think the Holylands has a great community spirit among the student community.

The cops are filming us with these cameras and then bring cameras out with them and on the vans. But you’re not allowed to film them. Their monopoly is not only on violence it seems.

http://www.facebook.com/belfastholylands