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Two boys from the Roma community were charged with rape of a young Irish girl at Clonavon Terrace in Ballymena Co. Antrim on Monday 9th June 2025. This has caused considerable outrage in Ballymena, where that community are not popular anyway, and that night a riot broke out which ultimately led to the burning out of those Roma families in that terrace in the town. Over that and subsequent nights (up to now, 13th June) this reaction has tapped into a general feeling of anger that migrant communities are taking over the town, and a feeling that the locals wish to fight against this. This has culminated in Ballymena with many houses self identifying themselves as locals, to prevent burnings, with one house identifying as Gurka, from the British army regiment.
At first this wave spread to Magherafelt and Larne, where the leisure centre to which immigrant refugees from Ballymena were sent, was burnt out, and is now reported to have inspired riots in places like Portadown.
At any rate here is a short video describing something of the tense atmosphere.
by Brian Nugent, http://www.orwellianireland.com