Irish Prime Minister Warns Against Return To Violence In Northern Ireland

Sunday, 11 April 2021Newsdesk

Irish prime minister Micheal Martin warned against a "spiral back" into sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland on Saturday, as a week-long streak of riots raised fears for the future of a fragile peace in the British province. Police issued no statements on unrest in Belfast on Saturday, and the streets appeared calm in the regional capital which has been marred by rioting from pro-UK unionists and pro-Ireland nationalists in the longest run of violence in recent years.

New Delhi, 11 April 2021

As per news report of NDTV, On Friday night 14 officers were injured as petrol bombs and masonry were thrown in a unionist enclave, police said. A car was also "hijacked and set on fire and pushed towards police lines", as the total number of officers injured in recent disorder reached 88. Elsewhere on Friday police clashed with a crowd of 40 in the northern town of Coleraine and a man was charged with "possessing petrol bombs in suspicious circumstances" following disorder in Newtownabbey, a suburb north of Belfast. Saturday marked the 23rd anniversary of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which wound down the three-decades-long sectarian conflict over British rule in Northern Ireland which claimed 3,500 lives.

Source -NDTV