The Belfast stabber and his victim
Absolutely horrific.
The man who was viciously stabbed on a Belfast street by a man from Sudan has lost an eye. He’s fortunate he didn’t lose two – at least, that hasn’t happened yet:
The victim of the stabbing remains in serious condition and the court has heard he lost his left eye and has severe damage to his right eye in the attack as well as deep cuts to his head and face, and long lacerations on his back.
The attack was only stopped by some brave onlookers, including this man:
Among the heroes was Maitiu Mág Tighearnán, known as Matt, who stumbled upon the scene after returning home from a night out.
Grabbing a wooden hurley stick – used in the Irish sport of hurling – the young dad charged towards the knifeman.
Police later said the actions of courageous members of the public and responding officers had “undoubtedly” saved the victim’s life.
I originally thought, from the name, that Maitiu might be from the Pacific Islands or some other foreign place. But then I realized that no, the spelling of the name is a Gaelic thing. Here’s some information:
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Mr Mág Tighearnán said he had just returned from hurling practice with his son, when he noticed a car in the area reverse as “if to get away from something”.
He then exited his vehicle with his friend, named as Andre, when the pair noticed the attacker stabbing the man.
Mr Mág Tighearnán said “instinct took over” as he confronted the man.
“Andre was a few seconds behind and he came running in and tried to subdue the attacker with an ankle-hold so he could free the victim,” he added.
“I hit this guy again, hard, but it didn’t seem to phase him. He did stumble back, though and dropped the knife. I think another man who’d been watching came in and kicked the knife away.”
He also told the newspaper the victim appeared to “scream” but couldn’t due to stab wounds to his neck.
“I’m glad we intervened when we did. It was pure chance that we’d gone that route to the petrol station,” he continued.
“People have called us heroes but to be honest I’d like to think most people would’ve got stuck in and helped if they could. I just hope the victim pulls through and manages to recover as best he can.”
Heroes nearly always claim they’re nothing special. But they’re very special.
As for the perpetrator, he had nothing to say for himself when he appeared in court (via videolink):
Hadi Alodid has appeared before the city’s magistrates’ court on Wednesday morning.
The 30-year-old, with an address at Duncairn Avenue in Belfast, is charged with the attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvy, threatening to kill an NHS radiographer on the same day and with the possession of a knife.
He appeared in court via videolink. He refused legal representation and made no reply to charges which were put to him through an Arabic interpreter.
He was refused bail. The threats against the NHS worker have not been further explained as far as I can tell. My guess is that this happened first, and was the beginning of the perp’s frenzy that culminated in the stabbing. Why was Alodid interacting with an NHS radiographer? Was he being worked up for some problem?
I’ve read a few other things from sources I don’t think are necessarily trustworthy, although I don’t know. For example, some are saying that Ogilvie had helped Alodid move into a flat just a few days earlier. Others say that Ogilvie is developmentally disabled. Each of these things may or may not be true.
The event sparked riots, and of course the riots were condemned by people like Starmer. It really does seem that he’s more upset about the riots than about the attack, although he did condemn the attack. But Starmer will not sympathize with the rage of people who feel their country has been invaded by a large number of newcomers who are culturally incompatible and many of whom are not assimilating. Nor will he sympathize with the rage they feel towards people like Starmer himself who have encouraged the huge number of third-world newcomers.
“The scenes in Belfast last night were shocking and completely unacceptable.
“There is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere.
“It is clear that people were targeted last night because of their background and I will not tolerate it. Those responsible will feel the full force of the law.”
Oh, that’ll calm them down.
NOTE: On the rescuer’s name, Google AI has this to say:
Yes, the name Maitiu (often spelled Maitiú) is distinctively Irish. It is the traditional Gaelic/Irish form of the English name Matthew, which traces its ultimate origins to Hebrew.The second part of the name, Mág, is a traditional Gaelic prefix (a variant of Mac) meaning “son of.” It is typically combined with another Gaelic word, such as Tighearnán (meaning “lord” or “master”), to form a full Irish surname (e.g., Mág Tighearnán, Anglicized as McKiernan)
So we might call him Matthew McKiernan.
And so, it’s become a case of “Wankers of the word, UNITE!”…
“UK’s terrorism watchdog admits Trump administration may be right about migration being a national security issue”—
https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2026/06/10/uks-terrorism-watchdog-admits-trump-administration-may-be-right-about-migration-being-a-national-security-issue/
Gotta love that “may be”…
The beheader is from Sudan not Uganda. And you have a typo in the last line: McKiernan not KcKiernan.
Marisa:
Thanks, will fix.
Islamist Hadi Alodid’s actions are unequivocally endorsed by both the Qur’an and by eyewitness testimony of Muhammad’s words and deeds.
This is the most basic truth about Islam’s view of the non-Islamic world that ‘moderate’ Muslims refuse to fully face up to… because to face up to it would be to confront their passive/active condoning of Islam’s inconvenient truths.
It’s not a bunch of ‘radicals’. It’s Islam’s bedrock ‘reality’.
Because there’s more than one language that can be called “Gaelic”–there’s at least three–the Irish language is usually called “Irish” in English. In Irish it’s called “Gaelige”. Not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic, which is “Gaidhlig”. Not to be confused with Scots, which is a sister language of English with fewer Latin-derived and more Norse-derived words and some old-time grammar. (Welsh, which is Celtic but not Gaelic, is called “Cymraeg” in Welsh, obviously.)
Many people in Ireland in the twentieth century Irishized their English-derived names. For example, the Irish revolutionary Patrick Pearse is “Pádraig Mac Piarais” in Ireland. Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty “Mícheál Ó Coileáin”.
Irish names, or Irishized names like “Maitiu”, were not recognized in Northern Ireland until the late 1990s: Maitiu Mág Tighearnán is probably young, or from the Republic of Ireland, or nationalistic, or some combination of these.
Islam is an ideology, like Nazism. It is a belief system BUT not a religion. We Americans must realize the difference, and cease providing it with a platform under the aegis of “Freedom of religion”.
CICERO:
Islam is a religion and an ideology and does not believe in separation of church and state. But it is a religion. I have written on the topic before. See this.
I think all the extra letters in Irish are put there to be as difficult as possible for foreigners on purpose. Welsh is running something similar.
Examples:
“Mac Amhalghaidh” = “MacAuliffe”
“Ó Conchúir” = “O’Conor”
“Ó hAodha” = “O’Hea”
Cornish is a Celtic language. I own a 200-year-old Cornish Bible, hymnal, and other devotional publications. Got them at a yard sale in Mineral Springs Wisconsin, which was established and settled by Cornish immigrants. Restaurants in the town serve trad. Cornish foot, meat pies and such. I’m told the Cornish word for their language is “Crbstbshisa.”
The UK government is supporting the stabber and those like him. Traitors to the core. If there was a case for revolution this is it.
@IrishOtter49:Cornish is a Celtic language
Yeah, Cornish, Welsh, and Breton are in the Britonnic Celtic group, and Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic are in the Gaelic Celtic group.
Interestingly the parts of France where Breton is spoken were named after places in Cornwall and Devonshire, and one large area of it is called “Cornouaille” to this day (in French, in Breton it’s called “Kernev”).
Used to be a lot more Celts. The Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the Galatians, Celts who lived in what is now Turkey.
@Richard Cook:The UK government is supporting the stabber and those like him.
I wish it were just that. The devolved government of Northern Ireland has no say over immigration, but they’re just as complicit. And that Sinn Fein leads it doesn’t mean anything: once they got their hands on that sweet tax money, keeping the trough full is what they care about. Like every other major party in the West.
@Niketas Choniates
I imagine it went something like :
“All right, we’ll use your alphabet – but we’re going to spell everything so that you B******s can’t pronounce it”.
OK, speaking of the various languages spoken (past or present) in Ireland and the UK, here is the longest word in Welsh:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
It is the real name of a village in Wales.
Makes you want to learn Welsh, right ?
But even longer is :
‘Taumatawhakatangangihangakoauauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
which is the name of a hill in New Zealand; I have no idea what language this is.
I think I’ll stick with English, nicht var?
In re Gaeilge – I saw this short film on an airplane many years ago, and it made a very interesting point about how some people reacted to a foreigner speaking their own native language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYtG9BNhfM
Short Film (2003)
“Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (My Name Is Yu Ming) is the story of a young Chinese man, who is disillusioned with his dead-end job at a supermarket. A spin of the globe leads him to choose Ireland as the destination for his new life and further research informs him that the official language of that country is Gaelic.”
@ Niketas > “I think all the extra letters in Irish are put there to be as difficult as possible for foreigners on purpose. Welsh is running something similar.”
I have been working on Welsh for a number of years now, and it’s actually very phonetic once you learn the code.
So is Gaelic, but the code is more complex and they write it out excruciatingly phonetically: the consonant clusters all sound slightly different, and, in addition to long and short vowels, they have slender and fat ones!
Then there are the dialects, grammatical declensions, and variant spellings.
In comparison, Welsh is trivially easy.
Pob hwyl, pawb!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language
Niketas
Surrender or fight. Those are the only options.
Thank goodness that Maitiu had just come from hurling so he had a hurling stick with him. Otherwise what other weapon (his bare hands?) could he use to stop the attack?
‘All right, we’ll use your alphabet, but we’re going to spell everything so you B*****s can’t pronounce it.’
Absolutely the case in British Columbia.
Then there’s Norwegian.
My cousin went to grad school there – where our mutual great grand parents came from. When I asked her how difficult it was to learn Norwegian, she said it was really easy. It took her about three weeks to figure out it was just English with a funny accent.
Good thing he wasn’t a Scot fresh from a caber toss!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber_toss
I used to order fish ‘n’ chips at the Edinburgh Castle in San Francisco. There was an immense caber hanging over the bar.
OMG. The Edinburgh Castle closed down in 2025:
https://brokeassstuart.com/p/the-edinburgh-castle-in-san-francisco-has-closed-down
‘Tis an ill omen, indeed.
The Brits are picky about what may be carried by native-born which could be used as weapons. The hurling stick ain’t no joke in the club class. Surprised the let him get away with it. But, with a name like that, maybe they figured he was an immigrant until they could get it decoded.
Geoffrey Britain on June 10, 2026 at 6:55 pm said:
Islamist Hadi Alodid’s actions are unequivocally endorsed by both the Qur’an and by eyewitness testimony of Muhammad’s words and deeds.
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Exactly. The few Muslims who don’t go around 24/7 actively trying to kill or harm infidels just happen to be good people in spite of their “religious” indoctrination.
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Richard Aubrey on June 11, 2026 at 4:59 am said:
But, with a name like that, maybe they figured he was an immigrant until they could get it decoded.
If the investigators were DEI hires from Pakistan, etc, they might have mistaken the Gaelic name for Thai or some other non-white ethnicity, allowing him to temporarily get away with the assault
@Richard Aubrey:The hurling stick ain’t no joke in the club class. Surprised the let him get away with it. But, with a name like that, maybe they figured he was an immigrant until they could get it decoded.
Neither Irish names nor hurling sticks are anything unusual in Northern Ireland. Hurling even predates Christianity in the island. British used to ban it.
One description of the attack described a hurling stick as “the offspring of a cricket bat and a field hockey stick.” I thought that was pretty accurate.
@Lee Also:a hurling stick as “the offspring of a cricket bat and a field hockey stick.” I thought that was pretty accurate.
If the cricket bat and field hockey stick had been sent backward in time a couple thousand years, perhaps. 🙂 But ball-and-stick games were independently invented many times. Greeks were playing them after the Irish but probably didn’t learn them from them, any more than the Irish learned them from the Egyptians who were playing them even before the Irish.
Timetable.
I said nothing about unusual. I was referring to the practical use of the thing as a weapon. Which the UK governments don’t like to see in the hands of the English. IIRC there was some talk about the cricket gizmo .Some self-defense lawyers in the US say that if you have a baseball bat in your car, better have glove. Otherwise you may have mean thoughts or something.
Huxley, I used to go to Edinburgh Castle. When I met my wife she was living a block or two away. Shame that it closed but I haven’t been there in over 40 years.
I’ve buried my parents and I’m back. This is IRA country.