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Eight Police Officers Injured During Violent Unionist Riot in Belfast Over Post-Brexit Trade - Video © REUTERS / CLODAGH KILCOYNE Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202104031082529561-eight-police-officers-injured-during-violent-unionist-riot-in-belfast-over-post-brexit-trade/ Local unionists and loyalists have in recent weeks expressed staunch opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol, a part of the newly concluded Brexit trade deal, which envisages checks in the Irish Sea for goods crossing from and into the rest of the ...

A local protest turned violent shortly after 8pm last night.

Eight police officers injured after loyalist rioting in south Belfast

Disturbances have broken out on the streets in Newtownabbey amid fears there may be another night of trouble ahead in Northern Ireland. Three cars were hijacked and set on fire in the loyalist O’Neill/Doagh Road area on Saturday evening. A large crowd of onlookers gathered to watch the unrest. Police are currently in attendance following reports of disorder at the Cloughfern roundabout in the O’Neill’s Road area of Newtownabbey this evening (Saturday 3rd April). pic.twitter.com/ba0FaRGifP Police said on Saturday evening that they were responding following reports of disorder at the Clou...

Seven people were arrested at the scene