As Belfast reels after another night of violence on its streets, this bloodshed feels darkly reminiscent of the Troubles. Claire McNeilly reports.
Youths from the loyalist community in Northern Ireland continue violent protests against the UK government's Brexit policy, which they fear will lead to unity with the Irish Republic.
Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other. It was the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britain’s exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance.
Philip Rycroft says PM’s ‘muscular brand of unionism’ has deepened divisions between four nations.
The threat of mass violence over Brexit is a lie designed to frighten us – it simply won't happen
07/10/2019
MPs are being hit with genuine threats and abuse from individuals, and they must be taken seriously. But there is no sign that Leave voters are ready to mount a ‘civil war’ if Brexit is delayed again or stopped by a referendum.
This week’s violence is an ominous sign that leaving the EU took a wrecking ball to the Good Friday agreement.
The Stormont Assembly is set to be recalled for an emergency debate following days of violence and disorder in parts of Northern Ireland.
Law enforcement uses water cannons to disperse protesters; pro-Ireland demonstrators and UK supporters square off, recalling past sectarian conflict.
Post-Brexit violence rocks Belfast for another night, threatening region's uneasy political balance
08/04/2021
Belfast, Northern Ireland — Rioters set a hijacked bus on fire and hurled gasoline bombs at police in Belfast in at least the fourth night of serious violence in a week in Northern Ireland, where Brexit has unsettled an uneasy political balance.
Almost two-thirds of people in Northern Ireland are concerned about a return to violence this summer due to tensions around the NI Protocol, the poll suggests.
The disturbance in a Loyalist area of the city on Friday evening followed four successive nights of disturbances in the unionist Waterside area of Londonderry.
Unionists criticised for ‘incendiary’ rhetoric as dozens of officers injured in days of unrest.
Operation Yellowhammer: Government no-deal Brexit documents warn of food shortages and riots
11/09/2019
Ministers have been forced to publish details of concerns about public disorder and disruption to medicine and fuel supplies.
One Month on the Shankill: Inside Belfast's loyalist community after NI's worst violence in years
14/07/2021
One Month on the Shankill: Watch an extended eyewitness report as ITV News gains access to the Shankill Road loyalist community following the recent violence, as tensions rise over the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol.
Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday there had been a "spectacular collective failure" to understand their anger over Brexit and other issues as there was some respite in street clashes following a week of riots.
Northern Ireland: Petrol bombs won't demolish a border in the Irish Sea or turn back the tide of Brexit
24/04/2021
The Protocol has reaffirmed Unionism's worst fears that Northern Ireland is the unwanted child of the British government.
Simmering tensions over Brexit and allegations of ‘two-tier policing’ spark return of disturbing scenes many hoped were gone forever
Northern Ireland violence ‘final warning’ to improve relations with EU, says William Hague [1 min]
14/04/2021
Ex-Tory leader says some Brexiteers dismissed province as ‘inconvenient detail’.
Panel including former US envoy appeals to UK and Irish governments to work together on paramilitary disbandment.
Northern Ireland was created 100 years ago Monday, but the day passed with little fanfare.
Northern Ireland riots: 88 police officers injured in ‘unacceptable’ violence, says Brandon Lewis
13/04/2021
DUP MP accuses UK government’s Brexit deal of “disrupting peace”.
Failure of politics to focus on solutions promoted division in North, says Declan Morgan.
Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday there had been a "spectacular collective failure" to understand their anger over Brexit and other issues as there was some respite in street clashes following a week of riots.
IT should give nobody any satisfaction to say of the current deeply troubling disorder in Northern Ireland that it was, alas, not only utterly predictable, but constantly predicted.
It took an event unrelated to the Irish Sea border furore to set a match to simmering tensions.