World Briefing
Times Wire Reports
Militant Protestant supporters of a Scottish soccer team beat to death a Roman Catholic man in the latest sign of how sports rivalries inspire sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland, police and politicians said.
Witnesses said more than 20 Protestant supporters of the Glasgow Rangers, many of them wearing the team’s blue-and-white jerseys and scarves, drove into a Catholic district of the town of Coleraine after the Rangers clinched the Scottish Premier League championship Sunday.
Kevin McDaid, 49, was fatally bludgeoned and his wife, Evelyn, and a Catholic neighbor, Damien Fleming, 46, were both injured. Fleming was reported in critical condition.
Police said they arrested seven men on suspicion of involvement in the attack.
