Ireland on the Brink of Revolution

The attack that shook Belfast

Callum McMichael examines the attempted beheading in north Belfast and the wider crisis of immigration, identity, and public safety now confronting Ireland.

On the streets of north Belfast in the evening of June 8, 2026, a Sudanese man in his thirties pinned a Belfast resident to the ground on Kinnaird Avenue, where he hacked at the man’s neck with a kit…