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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Angel Eyes on April 08, 2021, 11:19:59 AM
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/northern-ireland-leaders-call-for-calm-after-night-of-rioting
Youths threw projectiles and petrol bombs at police on Wednesday night in the Protestant Shankill Road area, while rioters lobbed bricks, fireworks and petrol bombs in both directions over the concrete "peace wall" separating the Shankill Road from a neighboring Irish nationalist area.
Police Service of Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts said several hundred people gathered on both sides of a gate in the wall, where "crowds ... were committing serious criminal offenses, both attacking police and attacking each other."
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The recent violence, largely in pro-British loyalist areas, has flared amid rising tensions over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland and worsening relations between the parties in the Protestant-Catholic power-sharing Belfast government.
Appears to be, in part, an unintended consequence of Brexit.
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Unintended perhaps but absolutely not unforseen.
Brexit is a big kick in the teeth to Ireland. They really have no benefit and substantial downsides.