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Around a thousand people gathered in Belfast for a counter-protest against several hundred anti-immigration demonstrators on Friday evening. A heavy police presence and barriers were put in place ...
Police Scotland are to send 120 officers to Belfast over the next week to help quell threats of violence. The force said it had received a mutual aid request from the Police Service of Northern ...
There was further disorder on Wednesday night, with police coming under attack in east Belfast. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it has asked for support, submitting a request to ...
A series of riots in loyalist areas of Northern Ireland began in Waterside, Derry, [b] on 30 March 2021. After four nights of rioting in Derry, [4] [5] disturbances spread to south Belfast on 2 April, where a loyalist protest developed into a riot involving iron bars, bricks, masonry and petrol bombs. Following this, civil unrest spread to ...
The News Letter is one of Northern Ireland 's main daily newspapers, published from Monday to Saturday. It is the world's oldest English-language general daily newspaper still in publication, having first been printed in 1737. [3] [4] The newspaper's editorial stance and readership, while originally republican at the time of its inception, [5 ...
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement (Irish: Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste; Ulster Scots: Guid Friday Greeance or Bilfawst Greeance) is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April (Good Friday) 1998 that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.
Earlier this week, Ms Jones said a paramilitary element is suspected of co-ordinating violence in Belfast. On Monday, four men linked to disorder on Saturday appeared at Belfast Magistrates ...
Outside England, there was further violence in the Sandy Row area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. A business was targeted for a second time, and armoured police Land Rovers were attacked with petrol bombs and bricks. Police fired two plastic bullets at rioters in response. A man in his 50s was taken to hospital following a serious assault in ...