{"id":90545,"date":"2026-06-11T09:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90545"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:25:53","slug":"belfast-hero-who-stopped-sudanese-knifeman-with-a-hurling-stick-says-act-was-his-natural-reaction-as-he-condemns-rioters-and-insists-30000-raised-for-him-should-go-to-victim-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/11\/belfast-hero-who-stopped-sudanese-knifeman-with-a-hurling-stick-says-act-was-his-natural-reaction-as-he-condemns-rioters-and-insists-30000-raised-for-him-should-go-to-victim-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast hero who stopped Sudanese &#8216;knifeman&#8217; with a hurling stick says act was his &#8216;natural reaction&#8217; as he condemns rioters and insists \u00a330,000 raised for him should go to victim instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/06\/11\/09\/109255721-15891261-Hadi_Alodid_appeared_in_court_on_Wednesday_and_was_charged_with_-a-1_1781165869932.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Ogilvie lost an eye following the attack and suffered injuries to his back, neck and face in the attempted 'beheading' at around 10.30pm on Monday\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A hero who stopped the alleged knifeman during an attack in\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-772db1c0-656d-11f1-813b-29e2266566ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/belfast\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Belfast<\/a><\/span> has said intervening was his \u2018natural reaction\u2019 as he condemned rioters and said money raised to support him should go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15891261\/Belfast-hero-Sudanese-knifeman-hurling-stick-condemns-rioters.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A hero who stopped the alleged knifeman during an attack in\u00a0Belfast has said intervening was his \u2018natural reaction\u2019 as he condemned rioters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Maitiu-Mag-Tighearnan.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90547,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90545\/revisions\/90547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}