Belfast another appalling attack, we need to ask what is driving this.

This man is reportedly Somali but there are brown Irish people you know, Silvershadow.

It is very clear on the video that the attacker isn’t Irish. All newspapers are reporting the attacker as a Somali.

If you look at the N Irish news there is a tad more detail, it appears that the attacker was Somali.

Somalia is a dangerous country that all Western nations warn their citizens not to visit. I remember hearing a Women's Hour programme once about trauma and how there is no mental health care for immigrants who may have suffered terrible things.

I only saw one mention of the background of the Stockport killer, his parents were from Rwanda which was the site of the terrible massacres of Tutsi people by Hutus in 1994 and I thought of what such a family/young boy must have seen.

Irish history itself is a story of colonial domination and the trouble it brings. There are never easy answers to these events and some answers are those that others would prefer not to consider. It's probably easier to do that if you've lived a life of relative comfort and safety.

Very wise.

I read the BBC account of the attack which says very little apart from the 'believed' ethnicity of the attacker.

Unless there is another account to be found with more factual detail I would prefer not to comment until more is known about it.

Every population has its share of mentally ill or hate filled people.