UK PM s loose talk on Brexit reverberates in N.Ireland AFP 3 hrs ago AFP © Paul Faith Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis admitted to unionist anger about the Northern Ireland Protocol
In the febrile build-up to Britain s Brexit deal with the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there would only be a trade border down the Irish Sea over my dead body .
A de-facto border does exist, however, and what one minister called Johnson s fantasy promises to pro-UK unionists in Northern Ireland are back in contention after the territory was convulsed this month by its worst violence in years. © Paul Faith
Northern Ireland leaders seek calm after violence escalates
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Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm on 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 Britainâs exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance.
Crowds including children as young as 12 or 13 clashed across a concrete âpeace wallâ in west Belfast that separates a British loyalist Protestant neighbourhood from an Irish nationalist Catholic area. Police fired rubber bullets at the crowd, and nearby a city bus was hijacked and set on fire.
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Belfast: Authorities in Northern Ireland are seeking to restore calm after the worst mayhem in a week of street violence in the region, where Britainâs exit from the European Union has unsettled an uneasy political balance.
A crowd of about 100 Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and petrol bombs at police and each other again on Thursday night. Police responded with a water cannon blast.
Nationalists attack police just up from âpeace wallâ interface gates which divide the nationalist and loyalist communities in Belfast on April 8.
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The attack in the Springfield Road area followed several nights of rioting by nationalists and pro-British loyalists nearby condemned by the British and Irish governments and local political leaders.