'Predictably, when I stand up for my community, faceless trolls use it as their daily reason to abuse me.'
Other politicians also condemned the "hateful" social media comments directed at Ms Lockhart after she took part in a TV programme discussing bonfires and parading issues.Ms Lockhart tweeted: "Predictably, when I stand up for my community, faceless trolls use it as their daily reason to abuse me."When you do down that route, you’ve lost your argument, and I will still be here.
Mr Butler used two balloon emojis to describe those engaging in the online abuse, and praised Ms Lockhart for "not giving in" to such "small minded" invididuals.DUP Lagan Valley MLA Emma Little-Pengelly tweeted: "The level of toxic, nasty abuse Carla Lockhart MP gets on this forum is beyond repulsive.
Members of the Orange Order staged their annual protest on Sunday. The Parades Commission again refused permission for the return route to proceed along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road, a ruling maintained since 1998. Each week, our Political Reporter Brendan Hughes pulls together some of the biggest and most important matters from Belfast and Northern Ireland that we think you’d be interested in reading.
She said: "We can't move on if there is no respect or tolerance for a 10-minute walk down a route which has changed enormously over the last 25 years.""I think you might as well ask to refight the Battle of the Boyne, that is a fight that is in the past," she said.
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