Posted on 04/08/2021 8:01:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The violence is being blamed on escalating frustration over new post-Brexit trade barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.
Gates were set alight on a “peace wall” — separating pro-Irish nationalist and pro-UK unionist communities since “the Troubles” began more than 50 years ago — as crowds threw gasoline bombs over it.
Several hundred people gathered on both sides of a gate in the wall, “committing serious criminal offenses, both attacking police and attacking each other,” Police Service of Northern Ireland Assistant Chief Constable Jonathan Roberts said.
Brexit disturbed the political balance in Northern Ireland, where some identify as British and want to stay part of the UK, while others see themselves as Irish and seek unity with the Republic of Ireland, an EU member. Each side blames the other for the current violence.
There is also anger that Sinn Fein politicians who attended the funeral of a former Irish Republican Army commander last year were not prosecuted for breaking coronavirus rules on mass gatherings.
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Oh boy, here we go again....
All I have to do is look at a map and it begs the question: Why does the UK occupy part of the Island?
Just what do the brits get out of the north? Give it away.
Biden appears to have reignited the Troubles.
Commerce, trade.
The British tried to develop the entire island, but civilization only took root in the northern part.
Bonnie Limerick Mayhem
Not Biden so much, as it is Democrat party policy.
There is profit in chaos.
Democrats love Death and chaos.
Meanwhile, Northern Irishman Rory Mcilroy is asked about Georgia’s voter integrity law and whether the Masters should leave the state (ha!), not about the violence in his homeland. In this instance, he had the sense to dodge the question, but he’s put his nose into American politics before. Focus on swinging your stick and chasing that little white ball, Mick.
That led to three and a half centuries of religiously motivated persecution of the Catholic majority in the south and the creation of a Protestant majority in the northern counties.
That Protestant majority in Northern Ireland forms an important swing vote in the British parliament. No other party wants to drive them into the hands of the opposition by proposing unification with the South.
The problems are almost wholly a product of sectarian tension in the North, which would continue even if the North unified with the Republic of Ireland. I doubt the Irish Republic has the means or stomach for dealing with it. Which is one of the reasons I don't see any great yearning for unification in the Republic of Ireland.
Why does the UK occupy part of the Island?
A good practical jokester was he.
A Terrible Beauty.
BTW, we were expecting to fly to Ireland to visit my wife’s cousins who never left County Cork.
I don’t think we’ll ever fly again, though.
A Terrible Beauty.
BTW, we were expecting to fly to Ireland to visit my wife’s cousins who never left County Cork.
I don’t think we’ll ever fly again, though.
Was that before or after the British starved more than a million Catholics in Southern Ireland?
“Why does the UK occupy part of the Island?”
Brits should just leave the island. They wouldn’t even have to build a “Hadrian’s Wall”.
Many, many Irish Protestant citizens do not want to leave the UK.
All this is beyond the Pale.
they lowered corporate taxes. People had jobs. No fighting...then the socialists move in...raise taxes etc.
Same ole same ole.
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