heres a story from the bbc it shows whats still going on back home these issues must be adressed before there will be trust in northern ireland thank god no one was injured.
Two groups of women have escaped injury in a petrol bomb attack on an Orange hall in north Belfast.
Police said a device, thrown at the building on Whitewell Road, landed on a grassy area and burnt itself out. They are treating the attack as sectarian.
Ron Martin from the Greencastle Orange Lodge said members of the women's lodge and a line dancing class were in the hall at the time.
"Most of them are elderly women and they were very frightened," he said.
"There was no damage at all, just the fright more than anything. The security doors stopped it getting into the hall.
"We actually notify the police what time we go in at, what time we come out, but unfortunately they're never there."
He said that stones had been thrown at the hall on Monday evening when the men's lodge was meeting as well as Tuesday night's attack.
'Ethnic cleansing'
Police said a number of items were removed from the scene for examination.
The DUP North Belfast MP, Nigel Dodds, condemned the attack.
"This is an odious and appalling attack on ordinary people," he said.
"It was clearly sectarian and another example of the republican agenda of ethnic cleansing of Protestant culture and communities. It was a mercy that no one was killed or seriously injured."
Sinn Fein assembly member Gerry Kelly said there was "no justification or excuse" for the attack.
"Lives were put in danger by those responsible for the attack who were acting purely on a sectarian agenda," he said.
"Their agenda is wrong and will be opposed by all within the community that they came from."
Two groups of women have escaped injury in a petrol bomb attack on an Orange hall in north Belfast.
Police said a device, thrown at the building on Whitewell Road, landed on a grassy area and burnt itself out. They are treating the attack as sectarian.
Ron Martin from the Greencastle Orange Lodge said members of the women's lodge and a line dancing class were in the hall at the time.
"Most of them are elderly women and they were very frightened," he said.
"There was no damage at all, just the fright more than anything. The security doors stopped it getting into the hall.
"We actually notify the police what time we go in at, what time we come out, but unfortunately they're never there."
He said that stones had been thrown at the hall on Monday evening when the men's lodge was meeting as well as Tuesday night's attack.
'Ethnic cleansing'
Police said a number of items were removed from the scene for examination.
The DUP North Belfast MP, Nigel Dodds, condemned the attack.
"This is an odious and appalling attack on ordinary people," he said.
"It was clearly sectarian and another example of the republican agenda of ethnic cleansing of Protestant culture and communities. It was a mercy that no one was killed or seriously injured."
Sinn Fein assembly member Gerry Kelly said there was "no justification or excuse" for the attack.
"Lives were put in danger by those responsible for the attack who were acting purely on a sectarian agenda," he said.
"Their agenda is wrong and will be opposed by all within the community that they came from."
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