Ardoyne riots cost cops pounds 400k; POLICING.THE cost of policing rioting in the Ardoyne Ardoyne (Ard Eoin in Irish, meaning Owen's height, Glenard means high glen)Old name Edenderry ( Heavnly, Oak tree,) is a predominantly Irish nationalist and Catholic district in North Belfast, Northern Ireland, made famous by the disproportionate number of incidents during area of North Belfast Belfast (bĕlfăst`), Gaelic Béal Feirste, city (1991 pop. 297,000), capital of Northern Ireland, Belfast dist. It is on Belfast Lough, an inlet of the North Channel of the Irish Sea, and at the mouth of the Lagan River. last month was almost half a million pounds, it emerged yesterday. Taxpayers shelled out an estimated pounds 422,000 for the major security operation mounted on three successive nights of public disorder. The trouble erupted after the annual Twelfth of July demonstrations. Dissident republicans were blamed for attacks by petrol petrol: see gasoline. bombers and stone throwers. At the height of the rioting officers were shot at. The bill for operations linked to marches last year was pounds 5million. Policing Board chair Barry Gilligan said: "These are resources that could have been much better spent on local policing issues." |
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