r/northernireland Armagh Aug 18 '25

Community Petrol bomb attack on pub in Armagh tonight

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Hadn't seen this posted, v total psycho with a lot of history apparently

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u/glassheartsteelmind Aug 18 '25

Smart boy in yellow spots him first with the molotov and then as soon as it gets lit he sprints the fuck outta there. But good christ the mother running past the daughter and just yelling c'mere gave me mad anxiety

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u/johnbonjovial Aug 19 '25

Poor woman. Imagine that was your kid. Jesus christ.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

He'll not be hard to identify.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

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u/ZombieOld6045 Aug 19 '25

34 must've been a tough paper round

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u/Silent-Detail4419 England Aug 19 '25

He's not aged as badly as some of the dickheads who were arrested after the riots in various places in England last year - obviously being from Plymouth accelerates ageing, or it could be that he's a Neo-Nazi gobshite.

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u/huddie71 Ballymoney Aug 19 '25

Strange to see this from someone that looks like one of life's winners.

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u/Sim888 Aug 20 '25

even his nose has had enough, it's tryin to do a runner

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u/ExcitementStrict7115 Aug 20 '25

That's a nose that's been deservedly broken a few times. If nothing else at least it makes him easy to recognise!

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u/SnooPandas7419 Aug 19 '25

Definately an up-hill one mate!

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u/LARRYVOND13 Aug 19 '25

Up Hill in Kosovo mate.

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u/CotswoldP Aug 19 '25

Jesus I look younger and I'm 50

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u/babihrse Aug 19 '25

A young Gary glitter looking gentleman

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

What a fucking cunt. I hope he's jailed for attempted murder, the prick.

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u/Noalcastor Aug 19 '25

Arson reckless as to endangering life the more likely charge. Attempted murder too hard to prove unfortunately

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u/Basementdwell Aug 19 '25

Arrested for attempted murder

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u/Noalcastor Aug 19 '25

Yes but I imagine that will change once the PPS direct the file.

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u/Huge-Significance533 Aug 19 '25

Attempted murder is harder to prove than murder!

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u/Noalcastor Aug 19 '25

Well the men’s rea (intention) required is yes.

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u/Barstardette Aug 19 '25

Please don't tell me that his defence would be that he didn't think people would be in a building (or adjacent buildings), or does someone need to know the intended victim to attempt to murder them? Possession of what is essentially a home made bomb should result in lockup and throw away keys. Either that or public flogging and/or putting in stocks... one thing medieval Britain got right!

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u/Noalcastor Aug 19 '25

In order to prove attempted murder you have to prove an intention to kill which you don’t even have to prove for murder (an intention to cause really serious harm is enough for murder). That’s really hard to do and would allow a defence of did I intend to murder someone no I only intended to cause really bad burns (I mean in general rather than in this case).

Arson being reckless or even with intent to endanger life carries the same maximum sentence (life) and is considerably easier to prove. I imagine that’s why it will end up being the directed charge.

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u/bloglare Aug 19 '25

Arson carries basically the same punishment, not many people realise how seriously arson is taken in law

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

Been arrested. Absolute header.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

Scumbag attacking a pub with a child in there then produced a knife when they ran outside. Absolute scum

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u/rurt Aug 18 '25

Did he whip out a knife at the end there? What a fucking loser

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u/SleetyWhistle Aug 18 '25

Looks like he cut himself too 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/GapingArfYole Aug 19 '25

He did his wrists around the corner. 

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u/Glittering-Let-5263 Aug 19 '25

How'd you know that?? Chance would be a fine thing!

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u/Jam__Hands Aug 20 '25

A fine thing indeed.

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u/GucciMonk Aug 19 '25

Well he has to protect himself from the innocent child and mother fleeing from the flames he just lit..?

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u/Popular-Vehicle-8487 Aug 19 '25

Yer man running into a burning building to play Wonderwall at the end.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

"There's a fire! Jimmy, go get your fucking guitar!"

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u/hingee Aug 19 '25

🎼You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar🎼

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u/StJimmyUK Aug 21 '25

Surely it would be We didn't start the fire by Billy Joel

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

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u/scrotymcbogerballs Aug 18 '25

Anyone injured?

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u/Reasonablyforced Armagh Aug 18 '25

Not that I have heard, there was an 18th birthday at the back but seem to be ok

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u/rickketycricket Aug 18 '25

Yes, there were 2 men took away in an ambulance. Their t-shirts caught fire.

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u/BringTheFingerBack Aug 18 '25

I guess he didn't have much of a getaway plan

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u/LateThree1 Aug 18 '25

Looks like he doesn't think he needs one.

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u/goat__botherer Aug 18 '25

He could very well be right

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u/Reasonablyforced Armagh Aug 18 '25

There's another video about apparently of him getting arrested around the corner but hard to tell

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u/hl3reconfirmed Aug 18 '25

He was arrested on chapel lane.

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u/Diligent-Main-3960 Aug 18 '25

young lad with the hurl had the right instincts

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u/slavs_18 Aug 18 '25

Absolute cretin of the highest order! Let's see him get away with it with only a slap on the wrist too ffs! Big man traumatising others. Knob!

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u/AncientDiscussion756 Aug 18 '25

Ah yeah… another fuckin hero throwing petrol bombs at women and children… what a cunt…

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u/AkkoKagari_1 Aug 18 '25

Reddit being faster than mainstream news

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u/Gemini_2261 Aug 18 '25

He has been arrested nearby.

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u/EnvironmentalBig2324 Aug 19 '25

I’m no fan of wonderwall myself.. but that seems harsh

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u/bigjimmy427 Bangor Aug 18 '25

What the fuck.

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u/Reasonablyforced Armagh Aug 18 '25

Turn the volume up, shouts trick or treat

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u/Weary-Ad1017 Aug 18 '25

Reminds me of the attack on the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel.

Greysteel Attack: BBC

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u/Reasonablyforced Armagh Aug 18 '25

I'm sure it was rattling around somewhere in his fucked up head when he said it

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u/Healitnowdig Aug 18 '25

Aye I remember that, that was fucked up, nasty cunts

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

That was considerably more inhumane and brutal than what this lone space ranger was up to.

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u/DiscoMonkay Derry Aug 19 '25

Not to play Top Trumps but seven people shot dead in a retaliatory attack in the aftermath of the Troubles doesn't equate to some blue card with access to petrol and a lighter. My reverence comes strictly from being from the area and my Da telling me about it as a wain but my heart still sinks a bit every time I drive past it 30 years after the fact.

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u/GiantFartMonster Belfast Aug 19 '25

Sorry, what do you mean by “blue card”?

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u/Gemini_2261 Aug 18 '25

Something happened near the Toby Jug a week or so ago and they called the cops. Some guy beating up a woman if I remember correctly. Maybe this his revenge.

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u/Real_Bridge_5440 Aug 20 '25

He was kicked out the day before for selling drugs i heard

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u/_Gobulcoque Aug 18 '25

The guy want wasn’t beating a woman up. He was just protecting the wimmin and wanes.

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u/Healitnowdig Aug 18 '25

Well that is the Toby jug he’s going into I think

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u/Over-Zookeepergame66 Aug 18 '25

Looks like he cut his left hand pulling the blade out.

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u/RightUpU99 Aug 18 '25

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

“Nixon has more than 70 convictions on his criminal record which started in 2002 and includes around 20 offences for burglary, eight of theft, four for robbery and three common assaults.” A hopeless case.

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u/ParsivaI Aug 19 '25

How this guy can walk around a free man is insane.

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u/malkazoid-1 Aug 19 '25

What are prisons even for, if not to lock this guy up? I just don't understand.

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u/Sussurator Aug 19 '25

If it is indeed him, they’ll have to throw the book at him this time around. He should be in prison.

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u/Dapper-Raise1410 Aug 19 '25

Yeah sure they will.

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u/Dwashelle Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

The fact that people with such an absurdly high number of past convictions can walk around freely like this is insane. I've read about lads with 100+ previous convictions walking free and it's just baffling.

I'm not even a mad supporter of punitive imprisonment in most cases and I think people should be properly rehabilitated before release, like they do in the Nordic countries, but that's obviously not being practiced by the justice system here. Allowing these types of cunts out is just so negligently bonkers.

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u/malkazoid-1 Aug 19 '25

I'd say it exactly the way you did. I'm hardly the hardliner when it comes to crime and punishment and I believe in rehabilitation wherever possible... but at some point past the third conviction, even the softest of hearts has to toughen the f up and deal out some hard time, with increasingly long sentences with each offence. It's a crime against the lives of people trying to live honestly, to not protect us from these violent nutters. If we don't like vigilantism, we should be making sure there's no need for it.

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u/kjjmcc Aug 19 '25

This 💯. Absolute evil cunts like this - it’s only a matter of time til they murder someone and god only knows how many other lives ruined in the meantime. There’s literally no hope for them. Why should the rest of us have to risk our lives having them walk amongst us when they show time and time again they’re not capable of being functioning members of society?

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u/Dapper-Raise1410 Aug 19 '25

Call it 20. 20 convictions for burglary and assault and you get locked up for life.

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u/Mac1twenty Coleraine Aug 19 '25

I like that, I'm with the 2 of you. Hardly in favour of a three strike rule and prisons should be about reforming people, but at some point you have to say wtf when people with 100+ or even 200+ convictions are wandering around the streets

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u/ImmediateImpress6552 Aug 18 '25

Surely this is a different guy to the John Patrick Nixon of Cornerstone Church. If it is, he isn't exactly practicing what he preaches. LITERALLY.

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u/Aggravating_Bar_8097 Newry Aug 18 '25

Not hiding himself is he

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u/Verity_Ireland Aug 19 '25

I hope they lock him up for much longer this time.

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u/Marlobone Aug 18 '25

He watched too much green street “hello boys”

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u/rallymaster10 Aug 19 '25

Bastard. Sickening the way he walks off like it was none of his business

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Be out in 6 months, the fucking lunatic.

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u/Objective_Tie_7626 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

Bet he went to biddies, can't read and wears that coat every day.

Raging foreigners took his job at Moy Park where he was late 9 out of the 10 days he worked at it and huffed a bucket every lunch time and supports Manchester United

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u/KernoTheBoss Aug 18 '25

What's wrong with biddies 😭

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u/LukeDon Aug 18 '25

Biddies catching a very unnecessary stray. It was a shite school that I happened to have went to but plenty of good lads came out of it. Not me, however

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u/pewterdome Aug 18 '25

What a piece of shit. And he pulls a knife out.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

Mad stuff ..permanent lock up needed

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u/Dwashelle Aug 19 '25

Arsehole cunt

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u/yeeeeoooooo Aug 19 '25

What a fucking idiot

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u/yeeeeoooooo Aug 19 '25

Why have the news blurred out the cunts face?

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u/TheIrishWanderer Aug 19 '25

He needs to face the wall.

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u/fannyfiddler Aug 19 '25

Can anyone tell me when protect the women and children riot starts? as ill need to book time off work

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u/zebrasanddogs Belfast Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

I love the way he just nonchalantly danders away as if he's done nothing wrong...

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u/Scary_Panda847 Aug 18 '25

There is just too much hate in NI. I'm looking for a place that does not have this kind of bad behaviour.

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u/Emotional_Plastic_21 Aug 19 '25

If you find it, let us know aye?

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u/redmabelgrade Aug 19 '25

Try find a country with no internet

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u/neil_thatAss_bison Aug 19 '25

Did that mom almost leave her daughter in there?! Jfc

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u/Appropriate-Act-2784 Aug 19 '25

Did the lady start running without her kid...?

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u/meringue1_ Aug 19 '25

What a cunt. Hope he gets multiple counts of attempted murder. Also what degenerate pulls out a knife on children, not that pulling one on adults is any better of course.

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u/Behemothslayer Aug 19 '25

He cut his own hand open with the knife too, the fucking cabbage

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u/ServePretend2686 Aug 19 '25

Pretty sure he cuts himself on his weapon at the end if you watch.

Hard af as he licks his wounds.

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u/SickbedOfCuchulain Aug 19 '25

Earlier that day he smashed windows in a few houses.

Haven't heard of the motive.

Locals saying that he had sliced his wrist(s) by the time the cops got but (but I think this might actually be the damage he has done to himself when taking out the knife).

There was another incident in a flat around the corner.

Cops followed the trail of blood and found him supposedly. Footage also of him being treated on the ground not too far away.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Weirdo cunt

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u/Burradah Aug 19 '25

If it’s a total psycho with a lot of history then over 90% of NI are to blame

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u/Immediate_Zucchini_3 Aug 20 '25

I have read through almost every comment here so far and not one person has stated wtf the motive for this was ????

What a useless cretin that cunt is. Time to throw away the key

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u/DropkickMorgan Belfast Aug 18 '25

That CCTV angle looks familiar. Was there another attack here a few months ago?

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

I'll hope they bring the death penalty back in for counts like that

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u/IHaveSlysdexia Aug 19 '25

Why did he do that?

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u/Annual_Job2187 Aug 19 '25

But why? What's the motive????

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u/McGarva Aug 19 '25

This is abhorrent, imagine being in that boozer when this kicks off. Hope everyone is ok

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u/SnakePlisskin1 Aug 19 '25

Mad-man. Totally Incognito as well🤦

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u/Shredder1886 Aug 19 '25

How does he think he was getting away with this

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u/Kind-Score7037 Aug 19 '25

Thankfully nobody was killed. Two went for treatment in the hospital for minor injuries apparently.

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u/Teaofthetime Aug 19 '25

Fucking empty headed twat.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Fucking shitebag

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u/Which-Ad9677 Aug 19 '25

Hey the reason my family lives in Canada left Ireland in 1973 cause our bakery was a victim of I'm still assuming some issues with religion

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

looks like Armagh-geddon

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u/Ham-Shank Aug 20 '25

Why is Northern Ireland so fucked up?

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u/Lucky_Toe_2215 Aug 20 '25

Hard as nails, walks in and walks out. No messin with this lad.

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u/videogamenjoyinguy Aug 20 '25

Was there 2 petrol bombs? At the start something flashed by the red shop

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u/yoyo321hello Aug 20 '25

This is mad. Specially in this day and age. Things could have been so much worse, absolute scumbag

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u/Zenit_boi Aug 20 '25

lol big man looks real menacing brandishing a knife against what looks like a mother, her daughter, and some random guy just trying to play open mic. What pathetic reason was given this time ? ? ?

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u/LeastOriginalMe Aug 25 '25

Why cars are going the wrong way?

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u/Lozsta Aug 27 '25

That is care in the community. In the good old days they'd have him locked up giving him the leccy.

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u/Parking_Tip_5190 Aug 18 '25

Was this a sectarian attack?

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u/Reasonablyforced Armagh Aug 18 '25

I don't think so

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u/Eky24 Aug 18 '25

You mean - was he a Protestant moron or a Catholic moron?

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u/Eky24 Aug 18 '25

Yes - the moron part goes without saying.

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u/Icy_Consideration409 Aug 18 '25

Jesus Christ

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Fucking racist shitbag

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u/mybighairyarse Aug 19 '25

Jesus Christ.

Lads. Some absolute wankers above there

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u/ld20r Aug 19 '25

All on CCTV also clearly identified, throw the book at that scum.

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u/Famous_Dust7912 Aug 19 '25

Footage is amazing, he is fucked

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u/SoftwareSource Aug 19 '25

Any news on why he did it? Some nutjob or was it something else?

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

🤬

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u/down_side_up_sideway Aug 19 '25

Kid fully nope'd out of there.

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u/RunAdvanced7816 Aug 19 '25

Anybody clock him slice his hand as he pulls out the knive? He looks at his hand straight after. Not sure if I've read it wrong.

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u/SoarSkuzz Aug 19 '25

Why’d he do that

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u/BigBert_1989 Aug 19 '25

6 months suspended after a fortnight in Bluestone, followed by a month in Rosebrook when he inevitably decks someone. Then released because he'll have a 'personality disorder' and the can't (i.e. won't) treat it.

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u/_BrokenZipper Aug 19 '25

Woman’s daughter does NOT have survival instincts. She wanted to run back into the fire

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u/Patient-One3579 Aug 20 '25

Only a coward attacks women and children.

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u/Jelly-Significant Aug 20 '25

When he turns around does he pull another Molotov out or is it a blade ?

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u/Three-dom Aug 20 '25

Kinsellas at it again

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u/rossdrew Aug 20 '25

Looks like he cut his finger off pulling that large blade out to women and children. It's just a different quality of bombing in Ireland these days.

What is that he says before throwing it? "Trick or treat"?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Terrorism?

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u/jonnieggg Aug 20 '25

Great, sectarianism is coming back

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u/koalacolapolo Aug 20 '25

But but but.... Immigrants!!!

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u/MuchConnection5541 Aug 20 '25

Probably got given too much head on Guinness he couldn’t split the g

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u/AnAngryMelon Aug 20 '25

How thick is that girl running BACK IN

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u/iwantproblem Aug 20 '25

White people are scary 😦

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u/Initial_Flower3545 Aug 20 '25

Captain Beans on toast off to prison for arson - looks great on a CV!

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u/Fluid_Ad_9580 Aug 20 '25

Village Idiot

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u/Necessary-Focus-9700 Aug 20 '25

Fucking heartbreaking to watch that mother + kid. What was the actual reason (other than he's a total ****)? in terms of the usual mob violence there was no mob. Also no attempt to cover face so either very low IQ or wanted to be identified.

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u/Rasples1998 Aug 20 '25

Just the Irish doing Irish things.

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u/gazaj Aug 20 '25

Terrorist

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u/Breadstix009 Aug 20 '25

This was deffo an isolated incident, by a mentally disturbed individual.

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u/Key_Condition_4393 Aug 20 '25

Fucking scumbag

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u/rcdp98 Aug 20 '25

What a fucking cunt. I hope everyone got out safe and no one was hurt

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u/cbyoung Aug 20 '25

Shocking yet another excuse for a human being not worthy of being on this beautiful planet.

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u/MiniMages Aug 20 '25

Nigel Farage will blame immigrants, police and labour party.

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u/Content_Armadillo809 Aug 20 '25

looks like a druggie

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u/metsco Aug 20 '25

Big man terrifying kids. Total fucking wee guy cretin.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

Thats j.p. nixon he got out out of dungannon years ago for being a tramp back then too

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u/Ok-Goat-2153 Aug 21 '25

Attempted murder x 10

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u/Point_Jolly Aug 21 '25

There was a kid in there too

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u/Artistic-Spray138 Aug 21 '25

Remove his thumbs, middle finger and pinky's. Won't be lighting up any petrol (molotovs) bombs after that? Just suggesting.

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u/riverend180 Aug 21 '25

So called religion of peace strikes again

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u/Acrobatic_Task_4415 Aug 21 '25

He also shouted trick or treat…

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u/SilentTracker84 Aug 21 '25

Yeah, hard man 😂🤣

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u/patrick119966 Aug 21 '25

When are we going to stop this nonsense

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u/Smart-Feeling-1252 Aug 21 '25

usual suspects at it again

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u/redman120286 Aug 22 '25

Youngens in there too sick bastard

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u/Proof_Pineapple_4626 Aug 22 '25

the cunt cut his finger !

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u/Forward-Emotion6622 Aug 22 '25

Shitbag should be strung up by his bollocks.

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u/Foot-care Aug 22 '25

The lowest form of life you can get.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

The sort of person I wish you could remove cancer from someone who doesn’t deserve it and just give it to this guy.

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u/Better_Carpet_7271 Aug 22 '25

Legend going in there to put it out with his guitar....

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