UK Northern Ireland rioting over Easter - Could be Troubles ahead!

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A 47-year-old man has been charged following another night of violence in Northern Ireland.

He is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on 26 April charged with riot and throwing a petrol bomb.

Thirty petrol bombs were thrown at police and three vehicles were hijacked and set alight during rioting in Newtownabbey, on the outskirts of Belfast, on Saturday night.

It happened at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O'Neill Road area.

Police said a crowd of 20 to 30 people gathered from about 19:30 BST to 22:30 BST.

The crowd consisted of young people and older men, some of whom were wearing masks, according to police.

Police Land Rover on fire in Newtownabbey

The trouble was described as an "orchestrated attack on police" by Ch Supt Beck.

"No one, no matter what line of work they are in, deserves to be subjected to any kind of violence," he said.

It followed riots on Friday night in which 27 police officers were injured in Belfast and Londonderry.

There were five nights of violence in a row in the Tullyally area of Derry.

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At the scene: A planned confrontation​

Mark Simpson, BBC News NI News Correspondent

When the police arrived to stop the violence, a member of the crowd shouted: "It's party time."

Clearly they were spoiling for a fight.

This was not a loyalist protest that went wrong. It looked like a planned confrontation.

By burning three vehicles at a busy roundabout, the crowd knew the police would arrive soon. They did.

What happened next was ugly, but the police operation was firm and controlled.

Within an hour, order had been restored.

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Ch Supt Beck called on those involved in the attacks to "stop immediately".

"Their actions are causing nothing but harm and distress to the very communities they are representing," he said.

"No one wants to be dragged back to the dark days when rioting was a common occurrence on the streets of Northern Ireland."

One man had his clothing set alight while he was confronting police. A petrol bomb was thrown from the crowd behind him and landed in front of him.

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He fell to the ground and was caught up in the flames.

He ran to get help and members of the crowd helped to dampen the flames.

Police worked with "very closely" with local councillors in an effort to defuse the situation, according to Ch Supt Beck.

"We will continue to work with our partner agencies, community and elected representatives and the people of Newtownabbey to ensure we can all live in a peaceful society," he added.

Police appealed for anyone with information on the violence to contact them.
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Look at this tard, look at him and laugh.

 
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"Northern Ireland riots" is like "Baghdad bombings" or "Chicago shootings", it's so ordinary and generic that you have to make it ultra wacky for anyone to give the slightest of fucks.
 
Man, as an outsider with enough knowledge to have a small inkling of what may be going on but is not 100% sure, it sure would be nice if news articles actually told you what happened, why it happened, and maybe some of the history that lead up to the incident instead of just what I should feel about it and their assurance that workimg with local "councillors" isn't the waste of time and money that it sounds like. Thanks, BBC!
 
Thumb Butler said:
Time to let the colony go, Britain. Why are you even still there anyway?
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Because England has a hard-on for fucking over the Irish. The issues in Northern Ireland are their own damn fault from when they sent the Ulster-Scots over there, but if they're not making the Irish suffer in some way, shape, or form, the Brits can't even be the vaguely miserable that passes for happiness on their God forsaken isle. All the decent people left for the colonies and they got rid of the fun people to Australia.
 
The rioting follows renewed political wrangling over alleged breaches of coronavirus rules by Sinn Féin leaders at the funeral in June of veteran republican Bobby Storey
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Lol of course that's what got the loyalists up in a frenzy. A fucking funeral.

There's a reason why people call Loyalists 'Knuckledraggers'.
 
More AWS-8Q Than You said:
Because England has a hard-on for fucking over the Irish. The issues in Northern Ireland are their own damn fault from when they sent the Ulster-Scots over there, but if they're not making the Irish suffer in some way, shape, or form, the Brits can't even be the vaguely miserable that passes for happiness on their God forsaken isle. All the decent people left for the colonies and they got rid of the fun people to Australia.
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Everyone on those islands deserves each other. The English aren't happy unless they're treating everyone else like shit, and the other guys just want someone other than the English to be anally violating them without lube, even if the dildo's added another 2 inches in diameter and 8 in length. That's the only explanation that I can think of as to why the Scots want to join the EU as part of plans for "independence".
 
Shining Wit said:
Bold of you to think the republic wants norn.
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There is an extremely good reason we want the North back. Because this looks fucking stupid:

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It looks like someone chopped our head off, for fucks sake. The Creator, in His infinite wisdom, intended the island of Ireland to resemble a giant deformed teddy bear. I think our international borders should reflect that simple fact.
 
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