Neale Richmond: Here s how we could start moving towards a New Ireland right now thenational.scot - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenational.scot Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Nationalists and loyalists riot against one another at the Peace Wall interface gates which divide the two communities on April 7, 2021 WHO knew that the “sunlit uplands” would smell of petrol and burnt tyres? Almost everyone. The fury among Northern Ireland Protestants is unimaginable but it has nowhere to go other than a regressive descent into the violence of the past. As a full week of violence stumbles on to the mainland news channels Boris’s Brexit Britain is in perilous, and much predicted decline. As the Prime Minister sits in a cafe in Cornwall for a photoshoot sipping a cappuccino and looking affable police used water cannon for the first time in six years in Belfast; armoured Land Rovers and officers with helmets and shields were deployed on Thursday on the road that separates the nationalist Springfield Road from the loyalist Shankill Road.
Michael Russell: Brexit lies and violence in Northern Ireland thenational.scot - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenational.scot Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.