{"id":5616,"date":"2025-09-07T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5616\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:38:11","slug":"hyped-up-anti-immigrant-rallies-only-manage-to-muster-up-the-few-usual-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5616\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyped-up anti-immigrant rallies only manage to muster up the few usual suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Province-wide protests\u2019 fail to attract numbers as speaker hits out at Sunday World stories\n<\/p>\n

Around 100 people \u2013 including the usual suspects \u2013 gathered in the grounds of Stormont yesterday to hear speakers lambaste the Labour government in London over its policies on asylum seekers and refugees \u2013 and also to hear them lash out at the Sunday World.<\/p>\n

Police have warned that far-right protests are spreading lies about immigrants and that the self-styled vigilantes patrolling some largely loyalist areas should stop.<\/p>\n

But protest organiser Steven Baker told the gathering: \u201cThis is serious about what\u2019s happening as regards the people who are coming here.<\/p>\n

\"Steven<\/p>\n

Steven Barker speaks to the crowd<\/p>\n

\u201cI can guarantee you they all have military training. I\u2019m telling you now there is an army of undocumented and unvetted males living in our hotels.\u201d<\/p>\n

And to loud applause, he added: \u201cNorthern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has been flooded with dangerous fighting-age males. Military-trained. This is racial. This is abuse against the white race, folks.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he also hit out at the Sunday World and this reporter.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cYour man Hugh Jordan was running about the Creggagh estate last week looking for me. It\u2019s the lengths these people go to to get a story.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he also mentioned that there has been a split in east Belfast. There was no split, there was just no communication.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, even fewer of Baker\u2019s supporters turned up at Marcus Square in Newry, where a quickly organised \u2018anti-fascist\u2019 counter-demo attracted larger numbers than the official protesters.<\/p>\n

\"Loyalist<\/p>\n

Loyalist Mark Sinclair chats to Neil Pinkerton<\/p>\n

And a large and vocal pro-Palestine demonstration through the streets of Belfast city centre yesterday turned out to be in stark contrast to what happened the day before in Luxembourg.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Northern Ireland soccer fans had travelled to the tiny central European country to watch their team play a World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n

But some members of the Green and White Army were videoed chanting \u201cYou can shove your Palestine up your hole!\u201d as locals paraded through the streets in support of the beleaguered nation.<\/p>\n

That small number of fans were condemned on social media after the video went viral.<\/p>\n

\"Some<\/p>\n

Some of the people that attended the protest in the grounds of Stormont castle yesterday<\/p>\n

Yesterday morning, Stormont protest organiser Steven Baker used his Facebook page to appeal to anti-migrant supporters to turn out in numbers at the Massey Avenue gate.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIn just over an hour\u2019s time, we\u2019re going to Stormont. We had originally arranged to meet at Carson\u2019s statue, but there\u2019s been a change of plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to disabled people wanting to come, they feel they wouldn\u2019t be able to make it up the hill. So it\u2019s now at the Massey Avenue gates.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe important thing about today is that it lets me know that there are enough concerned parents in Belfast \u2013 and as you know there\u2019s another one in Newry at Marcus Square \u2013 so today, let\u2019s turn up.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he was lucky if there were 100 people there.<\/p>\n

\"Protest<\/p>\n

Protest organiser Steven Baker takes to the mic at Stormont yesterday to address the crowd of about 100<\/p>\n

But east Belfast-based Baker, who runs his own gardening business, saved his greatest vitriol for inside the grounds of Stormont, where he told supporters: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if you are living in north, south, east or west Belfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people are being planted all over folks. Why? I\u2019ll leave it to your imagination.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs most of you know I was arrested last Friday morning at 2.40am. They were doing me for criminal damage. And to be honest folks, I was quite embarrassed that they called it \u2018criminal damage\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I was doing, was I wanted to make people aware that I was coming here and was going to Petition the King and the Privy Council. I embarked on this two and a half months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

And pointing to Parliament Buildings behind him, Baker said: \u201cIt was also to make people aware of the corruption which goes on in here. Where MLAs get dressed up and go into Stormont to make false representations for us, the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Women<\/p>\n

Women carrying cards<\/p>\n

And Baker loudest applause came when he asked the crowd: \u201cDoes it not look like our own governments are now trying to genocide us?\u201d<\/p>\n

In a ludicrous claim, Baker said: \u201cOur people are being murdered. Our children are being raped. This is racial. It\u2019s an abuse against the white race, folks.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIf these people want to come here, they better abide by our laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox killer Neil \u2018Pinky\u2019 Pinkerton and convicted UVF bank robber Mark Sinclair were among the crowd at Stormont. But their far-right pal Glen \u2018Killer\u2019 Kane, aka \u2018Mr. X\u2019 was unable to make it as a result of court restrictions on his movements.<\/p>\n

Sinclair objected to the Sunday World\u2019s presence at the event.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI\u2019m a citizen journalist and I\u2019m reporting this here today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sinclair told us we should leave the Stormont Estate immediately.<\/p>\n

And one of his supporters also told us: \u201cI\u2019ll personally escort you out, if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

We ignored the request.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Fox killer Neil Pinkerton videos proceedings on his phone at yesterday\u2019s Stormont rally<\/p>\n

News in 90 seconds – 7th September 2025 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Province-wide protests\u2019 fail to attract numbers as speaker hits out at Sunday World stories Around 100 people \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-5616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}