Interesting debate on Open Democracy about war last month (first piece here, response here and original author ripostes here). The author of the second piece comprehensively misses the point that the author of the first and third pieces is trying to make, an illustration of how difficult it is to have a sensible discussion of this topic.
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Julie used to live half a mile away from there (by the bottom of Ormeau Park), and she says she couldn’t get taxis from some taxi companies to come pick her up – presumably because of exactly this kind of thing. This was in 2002/3, and I doubt it was happening much by then, but the memories linger.