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It has been a difficult week for Northern Ireland as violence not seen for many years returned to the streets. While we optimistically hope for strong leadership and calm heads, events of the last few months make that scenario increasingly unlikely. There are so many agendas at play that picking through them to assess how and why we have ended up at this awful juncture would require a dissertation rather than a column, but what we do know is that political unionism has been moving toward the hardline for some time. A loss of a political majority at Stormont, demographics changing faster than ...

SINN Féin has blamed unionist leaders for a wave of violence in loyalist areas across the north over the Easter weekend. Police were attacked and cars hijacked in Newtownabbey on Saturday, 24 hours after violence erupted in parts of Belfast and...

Police have come under attack as violence flared during another night of sporadic disorder in parts of Northern Ireland. Petrol bombs and bricks were thrown at officers in loyalist areas in Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus on Sunday night. It was the second night in a row that trouble broke out at the Cloughfern roundabout in Newtownabbey on the outskirts of Belfast, although the violence was not as prolonged as on Saturday night. There was also disorder in the North Road area of nearby Carrickfergus on Sunday night. On Saturday, 30 petrol bombs were thrown at officers in Newtownabbey in what p...

Video footage showed one of the rioters ablaze after getting caught up in the flames. On Sunday night rioters had gathered again in the area and petrol bombs were thrown at police. Last night, as the DUP and Sinn Fein blamed each other for stoking tension, the body representing PSNI officers said the police cannot be used as a political football. Mark Lindsay, who chairs the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, urged politicians to consider the human cost of their inflammatory language, and warned that officers were paying the price for a lack of leadership across society. Mrs Long pleaded ...

Children as young as 12 involved in another night of violence as five police officers injured The PSNI at Northland in Carrickfergus following sporadic outbursts of disorder. Picture by Liam McBurney/PA Wire  James Ward and Rebecca Black, PA 05 April, 2021 09:31 Children as young as 12 were involved as violence flared during another night of disorder in parts of Northern Ireland, police said. Officers came under attack and were pelted with petrol bombs in a night of violence in predominantly unionist estates in Derry last night. The PSNI condemne...