BELFAST — The Police Service of Northern Ireland received a list of residential addresses in January 2026. Properties identified in these documents were later targeted during anti-immigration disorder in Belfast.
A list of residential addresses began circulating among far-right online networks in August 2025. The PSNI issued a public warning against sharing residential addresses online. Monitoring reports focused on activity in the Newtownabbey area north of Belfast, and online discussions referenced by these reports described occupants of certain rental properties as "fighting-age males," "rapists," and "murderers."
Homes and commercial buildings sustained fire damage during recent disorder in Belfast. Masked individuals set residential properties on fire in the Glengormley area of Belfast. Weekly protests targeting houses of multiple occupation also occurred prior to the disorder.
The Accountability Project Northern Ireland submitted approximately 50 reports to the PSNI between August 2025 and June 2026. A spokesperson for the monitoring group stated, "I have seen the so-called hitlist currently circulating in Belfast, and I recognised it immediately as the same list sent to the PSNI in January." The spokesperson added, "The fact that concerns about escalation were raised months ago, yet some of the streets named have now been attacked, raises serious questions about whether those warnings were acted upon." John Blair, an assembly member for the Alliance Party in South Antrim, said the Newtownabbey area had seen "a mob on a rampage of violence and destruction." A spokesperson for End Deportations Belfast said, "They were setting up roadblock and ID-checking cars around hospitals." The spokesperson added, "These roadblocks are designed to stretch police resources, and then they go and they commit pogroms in specific areas."