He was critical of the PSNI's handling of the disorder surrounding the removal of the Union Jack at Belfast City Hall near the sectarian interface at Short Strand, where he claimed republicans attacked loyalists protesters without police intervention.
The most prominent peace lines in the past few years separate: the nationalist Falls Road and unionist Shankill Road areas of West Belfast; the Catholic Short Strand from the Protestant Cluan Place areas of East Belfast; and the Protestant Fountain estate and Catholic Bishop Street area of Derry.
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The Short Strand is a mainly Catholic and nationalist enclave in mainly Protestant and unionist East Belfast.