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09/01/2018
Sectarian Graffiti Threatening Workers Daubed On Wall In West Belfast
The Alliance Party has hit out after sectarian graffiti threatening workers was daubed on a wall in west Belfast.
The graffiti was scrawled across a wall at Millennium Way, close to the Caterpillar plant.
MLA Stewart Dickson condemned the attack and said it "will not be tolerated".
He said: "Those behind this graffiti are not representative of the vast majority of people, who will rightly find its message abhorrent. We are constantly working to make all parts of Northern Ireland open and welcoming to all, and sectarian graffiti such as this will not stop that.
"I would appeal to anyone with information on this disgusting incident to take it to police immediately."
SDLP West Belfast Councillor Tim Attwood said the graffiti is a "disgrace".
He said: "There is no impediment to anyone in this city working in west Belfast, regardless of their religion, ethnicity or their background. Workers in this part of Belfast have enough to contend with without turning on each other along sectarian lines.
"We continue to be starved of critical investment and regularly appear at the lower end of Invest NI grant tables. The proportion of working families relying on foodbanks to provide for their children continues to increase.
"If the cowards who daubed this graffiti think that attacking our friends and neighbours will solve any of that, they're sadly mistaken. West Belfast is open for business and open for work for everyone."
(CD/JP)
The graffiti was scrawled across a wall at Millennium Way, close to the Caterpillar plant.
MLA Stewart Dickson condemned the attack and said it "will not be tolerated".
He said: "Those behind this graffiti are not representative of the vast majority of people, who will rightly find its message abhorrent. We are constantly working to make all parts of Northern Ireland open and welcoming to all, and sectarian graffiti such as this will not stop that.
"I would appeal to anyone with information on this disgusting incident to take it to police immediately."
SDLP West Belfast Councillor Tim Attwood said the graffiti is a "disgrace".
He said: "There is no impediment to anyone in this city working in west Belfast, regardless of their religion, ethnicity or their background. Workers in this part of Belfast have enough to contend with without turning on each other along sectarian lines.
"We continue to be starved of critical investment and regularly appear at the lower end of Invest NI grant tables. The proportion of working families relying on foodbanks to provide for their children continues to increase.
"If the cowards who daubed this graffiti think that attacking our friends and neighbours will solve any of that, they're sadly mistaken. West Belfast is open for business and open for work for everyone."
(CD/JP)
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