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BRITAIN - NIRELAND - EU - BREXIT - UNREST

BRITAIN - NIRELAND - EU - BREXIT - UNREST
Nationalist youths attack police officers with rocks 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. Northern Ireland police faced a barrage of petrol bombs and rocks on on April 8, an AFP journalist said, as violence once again flared on the republican side of the divided city Belfast despite pleas for calm. Rioting over the last few days -- the city's worst unrest in recent years -- had mainly stemmed from its unionist community, who are angry over apparent economic dislocation due to Brexit and existing tensions with pro-Irish nationalist communities.

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