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The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it has asked for support, submitting a request to National Police Co-ordination Centre for additional officers from across the United Kingdom to support ...
BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland's biggest public sector strike in a generation shut schools, halted transport services and left icy roads ungritted in sub-zero temperatures on Thursday, with ...
2021 Northern Ireland riots. United Kingdom. A series of riots in loyalist areas of Northern Ireland began in Waterside, Derry, [ b ] on 30 March 2021. After four nights of rioting in Derry, [ 4 ][ 5 ] disturbances spread to south Belfast on 2 April, where a loyalist protest developed into a riot involving iron bars, bricks, masonry and petrol ...
The leaders of the U.K. and Ireland went to Belfast Monday to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government and bask in a good-news moment after two years of political crisis. British Prime ...
The situation was made worse by the fact that many of Northern Ireland's unemployed were in a state of privation and some were starving. On 30 September 1932, MPs in Northern Ireland's House of Commons shouted in protest over the 78,000 unemployed and their lack of food. One MP threw the mace on the floor and accused the House of hypocrisy.
Two referendums were held on the Belfast Agreement, one in Northern Ireland and one in the Republic of Ireland. In Northern Ireland the vote was 71.2% in favour, in the Republic of Ireland the vote was 94.39% in favour. [161] 25 June Northern Ireland Assembly elections were held. David Trimble was elected First Minister. Seamus Mallon was ...
The Ulster Young Militants (UYM) are considered to be the youth wing of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. Commonly known as the Young Militants or UYM, the group formed in 1974 when the Troubles were at their height. [1] Their motto is "terrae filius", Latin for "Sons of the Land ...
An assault which occurred at a school in north Belfast is being investigated as a hate crime, police have said. The incident happened in the playground of Belfast Model School for Girls on Tuesday.