A protest in Belfast passed off without trouble on Thursday evening, amid fears of a fourth night of disorder across Northern Ireland.Police are maintaining a heavy presence in Portadown ahead of a planned anti-immigration protest.

Violence has broken out in Ballymena for the past three nights after angry mobs went on the rampage through the town’s streets

MORE rioting broke out across different towns in Northern Ireland for the third successive night on Wednesday as yobs attacked police with petrol bombs, hatchets and fireworks in the main

Police in Northern Ireland say 17 officers were injured during a second night of anti-immigrant violence in the town of Ballymena.

Three teenagers aged 18, 17 and 15 are charged with rioting, as the attack on Larne Leisure Centre, 25 minutes away, follows a third night of violence in Ballymena.

According to research by the End Violence Against Women Coalition and anti-extremism organisation Hope Not Hate, in the first three months of 2023, anti-migrant demonstrations in at least seven places were sparked by allegations of a gender-based crime by an asylum seeker.

Senseless violence and mass disorder doesn’t protect women. It renders entire communities unsafe and ironically it is women and children who bear the brunt of this.

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