9 Apr 2021

Fresh rioting overnight in Belfast after week of growing unrest

From Lately, 10:17 pm on 9 April 2021

It's being called the worst violence in Northern Ireland in more than a decade triggered in part by the new realities of a post-Brexit world. US President Joe Biden has joined UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in a call for calm after the worst violence in Belfast in years. Rich Preston from the BBC World Service will have an update after another night of rioting.

Police officer use water cannon as they clash with nationalist youths in the Springfield Road area of Belfast on April 8, 2021 as disorder continued in the Northern Ireland capital following days of mainly loyalist violence.

Photo: AFP