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There has been a mixed response to the Policing Board's decision to officially close Mountpottinger Barracks in Short Strand. The site will close on August 31 and be disposed of afterwards.
The demolition of Mountpottinger barracks has begun. The barracks was a police station and housed the PSNI, RUC, Royal Irish Constabulary and the Ulster Defence Regiment in its time.
Short Strand, a small Catholic enclave in Eastern Belfast, is completely surrounded by walls separating it from the Protestant areas.
There was serious rioting in Belfast involving Protestants and Catholics. During the evening groups of Loyalist rioters began to make incursions into the Catholic Short Strand enclave of east Belfast. Catholics in the area believed that they were going to be burnt out of their homes and claimed that there were no British Army troops on the streets to protect the area. Members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) took up sniping positions in the grounds of St Matthew's Catholic Church and engaged in a prolonged gun battle with the Loyalists. This was the most significant IRA operation to date. Across Belfast six people were killed of whom five were Protestants shot by the IRA.
Short Strand, a small Catholic enclave in Eastern Belfast, is completely surrounded by walls separating it from the Protestant areas.
There has been a mixed response to the Policing Board's decision to officially close Mountpottinger Barracks in Short Strand. The site will close on August 31 and be disposed of afterwards.
The demolition of Mountpottinger barracks has begun. The barracks was a police station and housed the PSNI, RUC, Royal Irish Constabulary and the Ulster Defence Regiment in its time.
