{"id":484024,"date":"2025-10-08T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484024\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:11:13","slug":"threat-to-women-and-girls-in-belfast-is-from-indigenous-local-straight-ni-men-says-councillor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484024\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat to women and girls in Belfast is from \u2018indigenous, local, straight, NI men\u2019 says councillor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">DUP playpark proposal accused of \u2018stirring up racial tensions\u2019 is voted down at City Hall\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Belfast City Hall has seen parties split over a motion on play parks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759961473_818_9da69354-350d-4afe-b7c9-3d5352d830b3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Belfast City Hall has seen parties split over a motion on play parks<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kenwood, Local Democracy Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 23:25<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The threat to women and girls in Belfast is \u201cindigenous, local, straight, Northern Irish men\u201d, a councillor has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Green Party councillor Brian Smyth was speaking out against \u201cabsolute curse\u201d of vigilante patrols in Belfast that have been harassing and intimidating ethnic minorities and migrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUP playpark proposal accused of \u2018stirring up racial tensions\u2019 is voted down at City Hall Belfast City Hall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[5813,924,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-484024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast-city-council","9":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115340842528299924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}