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 | | The residents of Short Strand insist that they did not start it, that they are the innocent party here, that the attacks on their community have been entirely unprovoked. |
 | | The location of the Short Strand disturbances, tucked beside the river Lagan and just along from the luxury penthouse apartments that have mushroomed there in Belfast's boom years, may have come as a surprise, but McQuillan cannot claim to have been unprepared for riots. |
 | | Joe O'Donnell is the Sinn Fein councillor for the Short Strand, the first nationalist councillor ever to represent an east Belfast ward and therefore a walking affront to the area's Protestants. |
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