Category: Sinn Fein

UK PM Urges Calm as Belfast Protesters Hijack Bus, Attack Police

April 8, 2021
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BELFAST—Crowds of youths in a pro-British area of Belfast set a hijacked bus on fire and attacked police with stones in the latest of a series of nightly outbreaks of violence that began last week. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “deeply concerned” by the violence, which has injured dozens of police officers…

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Disorder in Northern Ireland for Second Night Amid Brexit Tensions

April 4, 2021
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Cars were set alight and masked people pelted a police van with petrol bombs on Saturday on the second successive evening of disorder in pro-British parts of Northern Ireland amid rising post-Brexit tensions in the region. Many pro-British unionists fiercely oppose the new trade barriers introduced between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United…

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Northern Ireland’s Executive Votes Against Travel Ban From Britain

December 22, 2020
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A Sinn Fein proposal to temporarily ban travel from Britain on Monday failed to pass through the Northern Ireland (NI) Assembly in a divided vote, as over 40 countries cut off travel to the UK after a new variant of the CCP virus was identified in the South of England. As a compromise, the NI executive…

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