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© Getty Images Violent demonstrations erupted for the fourth night in Northern Ireland’s capital of Belfast on Wednesday amid conflicts on post-Brexit trade rules and tensions between opposing parties in the Protestant-Catholic power-sharing government.  The Associated Press reported that young protesters set a hijacked bus on fire and launched gasoline bombs at police, with objects also flying across a concrete “peace wall” separating Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods.  Video shared on social media showed some demonstrators setting gates at the wall on fire and throwing object...

593 Shares Scary scenes. The Northern Ireland executive will meet on Thursday morning to discuss the ongoing unrest in the region after a sixth night of violence and unrest saw police attacked and a bus hijacked and set on fire in Belfast. Advertisement Along with the bus being attacked and set on fire, there were clashes between loyalists and nationalists at the peace line street that links the Shankill Road and the Springfield Road, while a press photographer was also assaulted. Northern Ireland leaders will meet to be briefed on the violence at 10am, before the Stormont assembly is to be r...

Loyalists petrol-bomb Belfast bus as violence continues in NI Loyalists petrol-bomb Belfast bus as violence continues in NI Loyalist violence has been ongoing in Northern Ireland over the past six days with 41 police officers injured across the region. Facebook Comments Loyalist rioters petrol-bombed and hijacked a double-decker bus in Belfast as violence continued in Northern Ireland. The loyalist youths also launched violent attacks on the PSNI and assaulted a Belfast Telegraph photographer during another night of violence in the region.  A total of 41 PSNI officers have been inju...

A bus was set on fire amid tension and violent clashes in Northern Ireland over post-Brexit trade rules INSIDER 4 hrs ago kmclaughlin@businessinsider.com (Kelly McLaughlin) © REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff Police vehicles are seen behind a hijacked bus burns on the Shankill Road as protests continue in Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff A bus and several cars were set on fire during violent clashes in Belfast on Wednesday. There are ongoing clashes between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland. The clashes come amid rising tensions over ...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Peter Morrison Northern Ireland has seen a dramatic spike in sectarian violence over the last week culminating on Wednesday night with eight officers being injured and the burning of a local bus. Belfast tonight. Why are the media are silent? ?? ?????pic.twitter.com/XZKofrvLv7— The Churchill Project (@WinstonCProject) April 7, 2021 Centered in the northern city of Belfast, Wednesday marks the sixth consecutive day of renewed conflict between the pro-UK, majority Protestant, Loyalists, and the pro-sovereignty, majority Catholic, Nationalists.  The violence is repo...