Because he was driving a Dublin Registered car they assumed he was a Catholic. Please be careful if you are renting your car in Dublin or Shannon and travelling up north. Here the ugly face of bigotry: From the Belfast Telegraph: Ex-Irish League boss in mob horror By Fergus Black 13 September 2005 FORMER Bangor football manager Roddy Collins has spoken of his terrifying ordeal after he and his wife Caroline were confronted by a "frenzied" loyalist mob while driving home through east Belfast. The current Shamrock Rovers boss and brother of former boxing champion Steve Collins had just driven off a ferry from Stranraer in his Take note-----> Dublin-registered car and was heading for the motorway when he encountered a gang of more than 100 people, some carrying baseball bats, hammers and iron bars. And he told how he "put the boot down" to escape after making a split second decision to swerve through a six-foot gap to avoid the mob. While in Scotland, Collins said he had watched the television footage of the rioting unfold on the streets of Belfast and had made up his mind on the ferry on the way back that he would "put my boot to the floor" if they were confronted by a mob. He told RTE radio yesterday that after driving off the ferry on Sunday he swept around a corner near a housing estate in east Belfast and saw about 100 people blocking the street. "There were fellows with hoods, scarves, baseball bats, hammers, there was one fellow with an axe. They were throwing stuff at the cars, bottles, stones, bike wheels and frames - anything to get you to stop." A woman aged 24 or 25 was about six feet away shaking a claw hammer at him. "She was 'effin' into the window - the hatred and vengeance was unbelieveable. The fellow with the axe was just standing there, another fellow with a baseball bat, fellows with sticks and a fellow with a big iron bar. There was rocks, bottles, bits of bicycles and everything getting thrown." Collins, who played for Crusaders and managed Bangor in the '90s, said that he had never seen anything as dangerous in as what he confronted on Sunday.
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