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On the evening of 23 November 2023, a riot took place in Dublin, Ireland, and involved multiple incidents of vandalism, arson, and looting in the city centre as well as assaults on Gardaí (Irish police) and members of the public. [4] Gardaí described the riot as the most violent in modern Dublin history, far surpassing the 2006 riots. [5]
A prominent leader of the protesters, Mark Harbinson, a Stoneyford Orangeman who was associated with the paramilitary Orange Volunteers, proclaimed that "the war begins today". [83] On Monday 3 July, a crowd of over fifty loyalists led by UDA commander Johnny Adair , appeared at Drumcree with a banner bearing "Shankill Road UFF" Ulster Freedom ...
In late February the Official IRA bombed the Aldershot headquarters of the Parachute Regiment, but only succeeded in killing six support staff and a Catholic chaplain. In May, they also kidnapped and shot dead a Derry man who was home on leave from the British Army. The following day 500 women marched to the Republican Club offices in protest. [13]
A pensioner began a daily protest against the shutting of churches at the closed front door of his local church in Rathcormac (in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne) in the north of County Cork. "I wouldn't be surprised if I'm [still] here on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day," he told the Irish Examiner in April.
The video included a range of defiant tactics illegal immigrants can use, such as refusing to divulge what country they were from or how they got into the US. @ccmkerefugeeandimmigration/Youtube
The Holy Cross protest was said to have heightened sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland in a way not seen since the Drumcree dispute in the mid-1990s. PUP politician Billy Hutchinson said "The protest was a disaster in terms of putting their cause forward but it was a genuine expression of their anger and frustration and fear over what is ...
The laws governing the Republic of Ireland, as well as Ireland's socio-cultural principles, had until the late 20th century been heavily influenced and dictated by the Roman Catholic Church. Long before and throughout pre-modern and modern history, a majority of Irish citizens were Catholic. [citation needed]
A religious organization that calls the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence "Godless" and "Christ-mocking" plans for thousands to protest at Dodger Stadium on Friday due to the Dodgers honoring the ...