The far-right Belfast protests were “some of the worst I’ve ever seen” – Lara Thompson

Lara Thompson works in the Youth Policy Sector and gives an eye-witness account of her experience of the protests in Belfast on Saturday. Ms Thompson was part of the counter protest, she said: “I was egged, there were eggs being thrown in to the crowd, there were fireworks thrown in to the crowd, which was more dangerous, more triggering, obviously for a lot of people we are coming out of an area here where we are very used to conflict in the North of Ireland, and coming across those kinds of sounds can be very triggering, so I did see a lot of distress.”