PoliticsUK: Northern Ireland: Season of bonfires arrives to celebrate Protestant patriotism, and loyalty to UK
Police officer seriously
injured after loyalist
march ends in
sectarian riot
• Woman rushed to hospital after being hit by missile
• Dissident republicans accused of stirring trouble
• Dissident republicans accused of stirring trouble
A female police officer was seriously injured last night during sectarian rioting in Northern Ireland after a loyalist parade was forced past a Catholic area of north Belfast.
The police officer was struck on the head with a breeze block during an attack by rioters from the nationalist Ardoyne. She was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the midst of the riot on the Crumlin road. As she was being tended to, rioters continued to throw missiles at her and colleagues had to hold up shields to protect her and paramedics. She was later transferred to hospital by ambulance.
The violence across Belfast and in two towns in Co Armagh was blamed on republican dissidents who have been accused of exploiting tensions over Ulster's loyalist marching season. A significant number of prominent republican dissidents were seen on the Crumlin road last night.
Police were pelted with petrol bombs, iron bars, bricks and bottles at the border between nationalist and loyalist areas in Belfast's Ardoyne district after 100 police officers in riot gear pushed the Orange Order march up the Crumlin Road.
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Henry MacDonald's is the first report I've seen recounting the v+olent response of Irish republicans on the "Catholic" s+d in the confrontations of the march the day before yesterday.
Guardian (Jul 12, 2k10)
-- Politicarp
Henry MacDonald's is the first report I've seen recounting the v+olent response of Irish republicans on the "Catholic" s+d in the confrontations of the march the day before yesterday.
Guardian (Jul 12, 2k10)
-- Politicarp
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