N.Ireland soccer mob beats Catholic man to death

[financeguy]

"Militant Protestant supporters of a Scottish soccer team beat to death a Roman Catholic man in the latest sign of how sports rivalries inspire sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland, police and politicians said Monday.

Witnesses said more than 20 Protestant supporters of Glasgow Rangers, many of them wearing the team's blue-and-white jerseys and scarves, drove into a Catholic district of the town of Coleraine after Rangers clinched the Scottish Premier League championship Sunday.

Billy Leonard, a former policeman and politician from the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, said several carloads of anti-Catholic extremists came armed with clubs "and literally attacked the first person they came across."

Kevin McDaid, 49, was fatally bludgeoned while his wife, Evelyn, and a 46-year-old Catholic neighbor, Damien Fleming, were both injured. Fleming was reported in critical condition."

N.Ireland soccer mob beats Catholic man to death - World AP - MiamiHerald.com

 

[corianderstem]

Jeez, what do you even say about something like that?

 

[Salome]

animals

they don't need a reason to act like beasts

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

Senseless, disgusting and tragic.


http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK...sted_Over_Murder_Of_Kevin_McDaid_In_Coleraine

 

[Jive Turkey]

How the fuck do you find 40 different people all willing to do something like this??

 

[Pearl]

How many of us have Sunday Bloody Sunday going through our heads now?

 

[financeguy]

I find 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' to be a lyrically and conceptually simplistic response to 'the Troubles', 'Please' is better and was indeed going through my head earlier, but not necessarily due to this.

 

[financeguy]

animals

they don't need a reason to act like beasts

Soccer does seem to attract the worst elements though.

 

[Liesje]

How the fuck do you find 40 different people all willing to do something like this??

That's probably just it, people will do something in a group they might not consider on their own.

 

[indra]

Boggles my mind.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

i completely dumbfounded by this.. seriously why on earth would people do this.. Do they even have a conscious? How can they sleep at nite?

 

[Zoomerang96]

How the fuck do you find 40 different people all willing to do something like this??

yeah no kidding... FOURTY. that's really quite the number if you think about it...

 

[A stor]

This is absolutely horrible. My prayers to the family and victims.

 

[toscano]

Soccer Religion does seem to attract the worst elements though.

Fixed

 

[MadForIt]

its just a game of football

those 40 murderers should be put down

 

[Galeongirl]

Wow that's disturbing.