Discussion Belfast Police arrest man after brutal attempted beheading

One typically Belfast detail of this story is that you could tell it happened in a Catholic area because one of the bystanders who tried to stop the attack used a hurley -- a wooden stick used in a traditional Irish sport similar to field hockey -- and also because his name uses the Gaelic spelling of Maitiu Mág Tighearnán (the English would be Matthew Tierney)
 
Fun fact: Ardoyne in West Belfast is a Catholic area, and was so violent during the Troubles that 1/3 of the total killings took place there. My Protestant grandmother grew up in Ardoyne, but her house was bombed twice by the Luftwaffe during WWII, so once it was no longer liveable she was moved to the east side of Belfast while her siblings remained in the old neighbourhood. When her brother in Ardoyne died in the 1970s it was too dangerous for her to attend the funeral because she wasn't a Catholic
 
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