Martin Ryan I live in the north of Ireland, for years the nationalist people have been subject to far worse treatment than those unfortunate Romanians.
The street I live in consists of 36 houses one third of this street includes ethnic groups, one house in the centre of the street has a large Romanian family, none of these people have ever been threatened, on the contrary they have been given help and advice by the neighbours.

The reason why we have so many ethnic groups is the fact that they have been hounded out of every loyalist district in the town, this applies in most towns in the north of Ireland.

In all of the reports on the Romanians who were terrorised in The Village area of Belfast you had to look close to discover that the scum responsible were loyalist youths. The local police were "keepimg an open mind", ensuring that Esther Rantzen and her ilk. were completely ignorant of the situation here.

During the early 1970s thousands of nationalists were hounded out of so called loyalists areas, I should knpow as we helped those who were threatened to load their belongings on to whatever transport we could muster.

As I keep repeating this is on-going and as for those Romanians expecting help from the police they will get the same help they received in The Village area, sweet FA.

What is completely overlooked is the exploitation by private landlords of these people, some of them are receiving upwards to £400 per week from the tenants, these leeches have bled many of these people, demanding £200 surety before they get the house,I would suggest that the private landlords are far worse than the scum from The Village.