MALE SPEAKER: After the march, we headed up the road to the
Catholic area of Ardoyne.
But if we were looking for calm, for sobriety and
level-headedness, we weren't going to find it there either.
On July 12, the anger is ecumenical.
MALE SPEAKER: One in every three people killed during the
conflict were killed in one square mile of North Belfast.
So it was quite intense.
And the emotions around it are still quite high.
MALE SPEAKER: While a gaggle of journalists waited up the
road, Jerry smuggled us in with the marchers.
But they were still hostile to the presence of our cameras.
Angry that a portion of the Orange parade was marching
down a road that separated Catholic and Protestant
communities, one that they called their road, they
demanded that they, too, be allowed to march.
The country's parades commission wouldn't allow it,
fearful that the two groups would meet on the street and
tear each other to pieces.
MALE SPEAKER: Come out at the top of the road, this was
initially where it was going to come out.
And it's blocked by PSNI and a bunch of what look like four
or five armored things.
And if you notice over there, they are fully in riot gear,
with helmets and shields and all that.
When the Orange Order comes by at probably around 8:00, these
two exits were totally blocked.
MALE SPEAKER: Yes.
MALE SPEAKER: People can't get out.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MALE SPEAKER: Fucking Christ!
MALE SPEAKER: In the midst of the chaos, we found Martin
Meehan, a former IRA prisoner and a leading dissident
Republican who opposes the peace process.
Meehan took the opportunity to heap scorn on those
Republicans who have entered mainstream politics.
It's hypocritical, he says, for them to condemn the
violence in Ardoyne.
MALE SPEAKER: We're on the other side where we police
are, where the Protestant neighborhood is, and where the
march came by.
And you can see the refuse, and the debris, and the
incredibly heavy, almost a rock like
police presence here.
And they're not going to be going anywhere.
Because this thing isn't ending any time soon.
The kids aren't getting tired.
And there are petrol bombs.
One just went off right there.
And fireworks are going off.
And the police firing plastic bullets.
And this is a pretty common occurrence around
this time of year.
And again, one has to realize, we are in Great Britain.
And there's fucking war on the street.
This just looks like it's going to keep going, and
going, and going, until these kids get so tired that they
can't throw any more rocks.
[LAUGHTER]
MALE SPEAKER: He says he's not a man of vows.
MALE SPEAKER: [INAUDIBLE]
on the other side of your face.
MALE SPEAKER: What happened in Ardoyne for
instance, last night?
There's a number of [INAUDIBLE]
reasons.
There's not just one reason.
Yes, some of it is kids venting steam.
And the reality is, it's exciting for young people.
They're looking up at the people in their community.
They want to feel important in their community.
They want to be known.
There's a huge gap between what's happening on the ground
in young people's lives and what's happening at the top
politically.
As an uneasy calm returned to Belfast, we talked to some
Catholic kids who went to the riots in Ardoyne just as
spectators.
They helped us to code the local graffiti.
MALE SPEAKER: And Huns are Protestants?
MALE SPEAKER: OK.
And do you know why you call them Huns?
MALE SPEAKER: All right.
And there's a bunch of these.
You see this all over the place.
[DOG BARKING]
MALE SPEAKER: Does it seem like anything was accomplished
the next day after, for instance, after
Ardoyne this year?
MALE SPEAKER: Why do you guys go over there?
You don't live right in that neighborhood.
MALE SPEAKER: If either of you went to your father and said,
I want to join the paramilitary organization,
specifically continuity, for instance.
What would he say?
MALE SPEAKER: So you're a liability to the organization?
MALE SPEAKER: So if you had a gun, you would go down and
shoot as many as you could?
FEMALE SPEAKER: [SINGING]
Oh, the water is wide.
And I can't cross o'er.
And either have high wings to fly.
Give me a [INAUDIBLE]
I can carry, too.
And both shall go my [INAUDIBLE].