{"id":513040,"date":"2026-04-04T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513040\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:30:09","slug":"coleraine-hundreds-take-part-in-rally-on-immigration-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513040\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleraine: Hundreds take part in rally on &#8216;immigration concerns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A small counter protest organised by &#8216;Causeway Trade Union Council&#8217; also gathered in the same area in opposition to the rally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They held flags, banners and played music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NIPSA Northern Ireland Deputy General Secretary, Patrick Mulholland, was part of the counter protest which he said was aimed at sending a message for &#8220;unity of the ordinary people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that the trade union he represents regularly attends demonstrations calling for more social housing and to defend public services that women and children rely on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately the people who are at this demonstration today, the far right demonstration, are never on the demonstrations which take place to advance those issues,&#8221; Mulholland said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are always on the side of division. They are never there to put forward a positive message.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small counter protest organised by &#8216;Causeway Trade Union Council&#8217; also gathered in the same area in opposition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}