thehumansarecoming

Is it just me or do you also have the overwhelming sense that we're on the cusp of something? Something Big. That feel seems to be following me everywhere I go... I'm in Belfast at the minute and this was the scene we were greeted with on the way back to our hotel: Dissident republicans are being blamed for a series of security alerts which brought parts of Northern Ireland to a standstill yesterday. Around a dozen major roads in and out of Belfast were sealed off after hijacked vehicles were set alight and abandoned. Many of the security alerts were declared close to police stations, including North Queen Street, Tennent Street and Oldpark in the north of Belfast, as well as Woodburn station on the Stewartstown Road and and Dunmurry station on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast. Army bomb experts were last night called to deal with a suspicious vehicle at Oldpark Road. An alert close to the main entrance of Stormont led to the Upper Newtownards Road being closed in both directions for several hours. On the Andersonstown Road an abandoned delivery vehicle caused traffic jams. We're staying at the Stormont Hotel. When we ...